Joint Center for Poverty Research
Working Papers

Rural Issues

Approaching the Limit: Early Lessons from Welfare Reform
Author: Sheldon Danziger

Dietary Intake and Food Security Among Migrant Farm Workers in Pennsylvania
Author: Katherine L. Cason, Anastasia Snyder

Does the Decline in Food Stamp Use by Rural Low-Income Households Represent Less Need or Less Access? Evidence from New Data on Food Insecurity and Hunger
Author: Mark Nord

Food Stamps in Rural America: Special Issues and Common Themes
Author: Sheena M. McConnell, James C. Ohls

Geographic Differences in AFDC and Food Stamp Caseloads in the Welfare Reform Era
Author: James P. Ziliak, David N. Figlio

Location and the Low Income Experience: Analyses of Program Dynamics in the Iowa Family Investment Program
Author: Helen H. Jensen, Steven Garasky

Prospects for 'Job Matching' in the Welfare-to-Work Transition: Labor Market Capacity for Sustaining the Absorption of Mississippi's TANF Recipients
Author: Frank Howell

Reducing Food Stamp and Welfare Caseloads in the South: Are Rural Areas Less Likely to Succeed Than Urban Centers?
Author: Mark Henry, Darren Hudson, Willis Lewis, Lynn Reinschmiedt

Rural America in Transition: Poverty and Welfare at the Turn of the 21st Century
Author: Leif Jensen, Dan Lichter

Rural Perceptions of Poverty & the PRWORA: An Ethnographic Study of Black and White Rural Church Responses
Author: Katherine Amato-von Hemert

Small Towns and Welfare Reform: Iowa Case Studies and Families and Communities
Author: Cynthia Needles Fletcher, Jan L. Flora, Barbara J. Gaddis, Mary Winter, Jacquelyn S. Litt

The Effect of Welfare Reform on the Incomes and Earnings of Low-Income Families: Evidence from the Current Population Survey
Author: Laura Stander Connolly

The Effects of Welfare Reform in Rural Minnesota: Experimental Findings from the Minnesota Family Investment Program
Author: Lisa Gennetian, Cynthia Miller, Cindy Redcross

The Impact of Welfare Reform Across Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan Areas: A Nonparametric Analysis
Author: Jeffrey R. Alwang, Gautam Hazarika, Bradford Mills

The Interaction of Welfare-Use and Employment Dynamics In Rural and Agricultural California Counties
Author: Henry Brady, Mary H. Sprague, Fredric C. Gey, Michael L. Wiseman

The Relationship between Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan Locations, Changing Welfare Policies, and the Employment of Single Mothers
Author: Signe-Mary McKernan, Robert I. Lerman, Nancy Pindus, Jesse Valente

Transiting from Welfare to Work: No Bus, No Car, No Way
Author: Cynthia Needles Fletcher, Steven Garasky, Helen H. Jensen

Understanding the Employment Experiences and Migration Patterns of Rural Youth and Young Adults
Author: Steven Garasky

Where All the Counties Are Above Average: Top Down Versus Bottom Up Perspectives of Welfare Reform
Author: Ann Tickamyer, Julie White, Barry Tadlock, Debra Henderson

Whose Job Is It? Employers' Views on Welfare Reform
Author: June Heineman, Greg Owen, Ellen Shelton, Justine Nelson-Christinedaughter, Corinna Roy, Amy Bush Stevens