Rural
| Publication | Category | Topic |
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| Limited Access to AP Courses for Students in Smaller and More Isolated Rural School Districts This brief assesses trends in access to, enrollment in, and success in Advanced Placement (AP) coursework in relation to school district poverty, racial composition, and urbanicity. It uses data merged from the 2011–2012 Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC), the 2012… |
Vulnerable Families Research Program | Education, Rural, Young Adults |
| Proposed EITC Expansion Would Increase Eligibility and Dollars for Rural and Urban “Childless” Workers This brief uses data from the 2013 Annual Social and Economic Supplement to the Current Population Survey to examine how President Obama’s proposed expanded eligibility and higher credit values might affect tax filers in both rural and urban America.
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Vulnerable Families Research Program | Children, Employment, Rural, Safety Net, Tax, Urban |
| The Long-Term Unemployed in the Wake of the Great Recession Using the Annual Social and Economic Supplement of the Current Population Survey, this brief outlines the demographic and economic characteristics of the long-term unemployed and compares them with their short-term unemployed counterparts. It also describes changes… |
Vulnerable Families Research Program | Employment, Health Insurance, Rural, Unemployment, Urban |
| Middle-Skill Jobs Remain More Common Among Rural Workers This issue brief uses data from the Current Population Survey collected from 2003 to 2012 to assess trends in employment in middle-skill jobs and the Great Recession’s impact on middle-skill workers, with particular attention paid to differences between those in… |
Vulnerable Families Research Program | Employment, Rural, Urban |
| Underemployment in Urban and Rural America, 2005-2012 Author Justin Young reports that underemployment (or involuntary part-time work) rates doubled during the second year of the recession, reaching roughly 6.5 percent in 2009. This increase was equally steep in both rural and urban places. By March of 2012,… |
Vulnerable Families Research Program | Employment, Income, Rural, Urban |
| Beginning Teachers Are More Common in Rural, High-Poverty, and Racially Diverse Schools This brief considers whether the concentration of beginning teachers in a district is associated with the district's poverty rate, racial composition, or urbanicity.
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Vulnerable Families Research Program | Education, Poverty, Rural |
| Mathematics Achievement Gaps Between Suburban Students and Their Rural and Urban Peers Increase Over Time In this brief, authors Suzanne Graham and Lauren Provost examine whether attending a school in a rural, urban, or suburban community is related to children’s mathematics achievement in kindergarten, and whether increases in mathematics achievement between… |
Vulnerable Families Research Program | Children, Education, Rural, Urban |
| Understanding Child Abuse in Rural and Urban America: Risk Factors and Maltreatment Substantiation Using a large national sample of child maltreatment reports, this brief compares the outcomes of child maltreatment cases in rural versus urban places and identifies the characteristics associated with substantiation. Child abuse cases substantiated in rural and… |
Vulnerable Families Research Program | Children, Health, Rural, Urban |
| Renters More Often Burdened by Housing Costs After Recession: Nearly Half of All Renters Spent Over 30 Percent of Income on Housing by 2010 This brief uses data from the 2007 and 2010 American Community Survey to document changes in the proportion of household income spent on rental costs (rent plus utilities) during the Great Recession, by region (Northeast, Midwest, South, and West) and place type (… |
Vulnerable Families Research Program | Housing, Rural, Urban |
| Rural Demographic Change in the New Century: Slower Growth, Increased Diversity This brief examines rural demographic trends in the first decade of the twenty-first century using newly available data from the 2010 Census. The rural population grew by just 2.2 million between 2000 and 2010—a gain barely half as great as that during the 1990s.… |
Demography, Vulnerable Families Research Program | Demography, Rural |
