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Pollack, Susan; Pendleton, Shelley – Rural Development Perspectives, 1986
Unemployment rates vary considerably across nonmetro counties, where adjusted average annual unemployment rate was 12.2% in 1984 compared with 10.4% in metro areas. Differences in unemployment rates among nonmetro areas can be explained in part according to their dependence on agriculture, mining, manufacturing, or other single sources of income.…
Descriptors: Community Characteristics, Comparative Analysis, Demography, Differences
O'Hare, William – Rural Development Perspectives, 1994
March 1992 Current Population Survey data were used to identify persons in central city, suburban, and rural areas with multiple disadvantages: high school dropouts, welfare recipients, never-married mothers, underemployed men, and poor people. About 26% of adults with multiple disadvantages lived in rural areas. Of those, 69% were white and 65%…
Descriptors: Blacks, Disadvantaged, Dropouts, Economic Factors
