Urban
| Publication | Category | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Rural Depopulation in a Rapidly Urbanizing America This brief examines demographic trends in rural America, a region often overlooked in a nation dominated by urban interests. Yet, 46 million people live in rural areas that encompass 72 percent of the land area of the United States. “Rural America” is a simple term… |
Demography | Community, Demography, Rural, Urban |
| Data Snapshot: Declines in Child Poverty Continue in 2017 The official poverty measure indicates that child poverty declined by 1.1 percentage points between 2016 and 2017, according to analyses of the latest American Community Survey data released today. By 2017, child poverty across the nation was still 0.4 percentage… |
Vulnerable Families Research Program | Children, Poverty, Rural, Urban |
| Data Snapshot: Both Rural and Urban SNAP Recipients Affected by Proposed Work Requirements With the expiration of the current Farm Bill on September 30, 2018, the House and Senate are working in conference committee to reconcile their versions of its replacement. A major difference between the two is the House’s inclusion of a more intensive work… |
Vulnerable Families Research Program | Employment, Food Assistance, Rural, Safety Net, Urban |
| The Opioid Crisis in Rural and Small Town America Over the last two decades, opioid overdose deaths have increased over 400 percent, reaching 45,838 in 2016. Although the crisis is not disproportionately worse in rural than in urban America, opioid mortality rates have grown faster in rural areas, particularly in… |
Demography | Drugs, Rural, Substance Abuse, Urban |
| Parental Substance Use in New Hampshire Hidden in the shadows of New Hampshire’s opioid epidemic are the children who live with their parents’ addiction every day. They fall behind in school as the trouble at home starts to dominate their lives, they make the 911 calls, they are shuttled about to live with… |
Vulnerable Families Research Program | Child Care, Drugs, Rural, Substance Abuse, Urban |
| 2020 Census Faces Challenges in Rural America The 2020 Census will have ramifications for every person in the United States, urban and rural residents alike.1 Interest in the Census is growing2 and the Census Bureau’s plans are becoming more concrete,3 but little has been written about the special challenges… |
Demography, Vulnerable Families Research Program | Demography, Rural, Urban |
| Data Snapshot: SNAP Declines Continue in 2016, but Not for Rural Places In 2016, 12.4 percent of households reported Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, or food stamps) receipt, down 0.4 percentage point from 2015. Similar declines in suburbs and cities drove the national decrease, but the 14.8 percent of rural households… |
Vulnerable Families Research Program | Food Assistance, Rural, Safety Net, Urban |
| Concentrated Poverty Increased in Both Rural and Urban Areas Since 2000, Reversing Declines in the 1990s The number of nonmetropolitan counties with high poverty rates increased between the 2000 Decennial Census and 2011–2015 (hereafter 2013) American Community Survey (ACS), and so did the share of the rural population residing in these disadvantaged areas. Over this… |
Vulnerable Families Research Program | Poverty, Rural, Urban |
| Three in Ten Rural and Urban Medicaid Recipients Affected by Potential Work Requirements The Affordable Care Act in 2010 gave states the option to expand Medicaid access to adults with incomes up to 138 percent of the federal poverty level. Thus more able-bodied and working adults have become eligible for Medicaid. In addition, several states have… |
Vulnerable Families Research Program | Poverty, Rural, Safety Net, Urban |
| Beyond Urban Versus Rural In the aftermath of the 2016 presidential election, commentators focused on the political polarization separating residents of urban and rural America. Certainly rural–urban differences are only one of several factors that contributed to the surprising 2016 outcome,… |
Demography | Demography, Politics and Elections, Rural, Urban |
