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Publications from 2009

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Financial Innovations Roundtable: Developing practical solutions to scale up integrated community development strategies, Michael E. Swack and Noemi Giszpenc

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Forty-three percent of eligible rural families can claim a larger credit with EITC expansion, Marybeth J. Mattingly

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Home care workers: keeping Granite Staters in their homes as they age, Kristin Smith

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Increased reliance on wives as breadwinners during the first year of the recession, Kristin Smith

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Maximizing returns to colleges and communities, Michael E. Swack

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Navigating the teen years: promise and peril for northern New Hampshire youth, Anne M. Shattuck

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New Hampshire civic health index, Michele Dillon and Shannon H. Rogers

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New Hampshire's population exceeds Maine's for the first time in 200 years, Kenneth M. Johnson

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Paid sick time helps workers balance work and family, Kristin Smith

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Regional young child poverty in 2008: rural Midwest sees increased poverty, while urban Northeast rates decrease, Marybeth J. Mattingly

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Rural America and the South have the highest percent of veterans with service-related disabilities, Marybeth J. Mattingly and Michelle L. Stransky

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Rural and Urban Children Have Lower Rates of Health Insurance Coverage and are More Often Covered by Public Plans, Marybeth J. Mattingly and Michelle L. Stransky

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Rural children are more likely to live in cohabiting-couple households, William P. O'Hare, Wendy Manning, Meredith Porter, and Heidi Lyons

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Rural workers more likely to work nontraditional shifts, Rogelio Saenz

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Rural workers would benefit from unemployment insurance modernization, Anne M. Shattuck

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Seventy-eight percent of working rural families to receive full Making Work Pay tax credit, Marybeth J. Mattingly

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Stay or leave Coos County? Parents' messages matter, Corinna J. Tucker

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Student discipline in New Hampshire schools , Barbara Wauchope

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Students in rural schools have limited access to advanced mathematics courses, Suzanne E. Graham

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The experience of the New Hampshire Community Loan Fund in mainstreaming of acquisition loans to cooperative manufactured housing communities, Michael E. Swack and Jolan Rivera

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The forgotten fifth: child poverty in rural America, William P. O'Hare

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The new, longer road to adulthood: schooling, work, and idleness among rural youth, Anastasia Snyder, Diane McLaughlin, and Alisha Coleman-Jensen

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The promise and responsibility of community finance, Ellen Seidman and Mark Huelsman

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The state of working New Hampshire 2009, Allison Churilla

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Unemployment insurance: a safety net for victims of intimate partner violence and their children, Marybeth J. Mattingly and Laura Dugan

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With less migration, natural increase is now more important to state growth, Kenneth M. Johnson

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Youth aspirations and sense of place in a changing rural economy: the Coos youth study, Nena F. Stracuzzi

Publications from 2008

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Affordable heat: A whole-buildings efficiency service for Vermont families and businesses, Richard Cowart, Richard Sedano, Frederick Weston, and Brenda Hausauer

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Affordable heat: Lowering Vermont's fuel bills and greenhouse emissions, Richard Cowart

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A profile of Latinos in rural America, Rogelio Saenz

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A profile of New Hampshire's foreign-born population, Ross Gittell and Timothy Lord

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Changing the public conversation about social problems, Lynn Davey

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Child poverty in New Hampshire, Kristin Smith

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Children in central cities and rural communities experience high rates of poverty, Sarah Savage

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Climate energy policy and low-income consumers, Antonia Herzog

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Concentrated rural poverty and the geography of exclusion, Daniel T. Lichter and Domenico Parisi

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Discussion on poor rural areas at the Brookings Institution, Cynthia M. Duncan

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Examples of creative graphing, Lawrence C. Hamilton

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Grey gold: do older in-migrants benefit rural communities?, Nina Glasgow and David L. Brown

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Many New Hampshire jobs do not pay a livable wage, Daphne Kenyon and Allison Churilla

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Many new voters make the Granite State one to watch in November, Kenneth M. Johnson, Dante J. Scala, and Andrew Smith

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Measures and methods: four tenets for rural economic development in the new economy, Anita Brown-Graham and William Lambe

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Pay as you save (PAYS), Paul A. Cillo

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Place matters: challenges and opportunities in four rural Americas, Lawrence C. Hamilton, Leslie R. Hamilton, Cynthia M. Duncan, and Chris R. Colocousis

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Place matters: Poverty and development challenges in amenity rich, declining resource dependent and chronically poor regions, Cynthia M. Duncan

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Population growth in new Hispanic destinations, Kenneth M. Johnson and Daniel T. Lichter

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Religion, politics, and the environment in rural America, Michele Dillon and Megan M. Henly

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Rural children now less likely to live in married-couple families, Allison Churilla

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Rural youth are more likely to be idle, Anastasia Snyder and Diane McLaughlin

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The state of Coos County: local perspectives on community and change, Chris R. Colocousis

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Understanding chronically poor places: Encouraging more voices and commitment to change, Cynthia M. Duncan

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Urban and rural children experience similar rates of low-income and poverty, Allison Churilla

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Working hard for the money: trends in women's employment 1970 to 2007, Kristin Smith

Publications from 2007

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Biofueling rural development: making the case for linking biofuel production to rural revitalization, Jim Kleinschmidt

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Child poverty high in rural America, William P. O'Hare and Sarah Savage

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Children's health insurance in New Hampshire: an analysis of New Hampshire Healthy Kids, Sally Ward, Sarah Savage, and Nena F. Stracuzzi

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EITC is vital for working-poor families in rural America, William P. Colnes and Elizabeth Kneebone

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Employment rates higher among rural mothers than urban mothers, Kristin Smith

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Food Stamp and school lunch programs alleviate food insecurity in rural America, Kristin Smith and Sarah Savage

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Low wages prevalent In direct care and child care workforce, Kristin Smith and Reagan A. Baughman

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New England has the highest increase in income disparity in the nation, Ross Gittell and Jason Rudokas

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New faces at the polls in the New Hampshire presidential primary, Kenneth M. Johnson

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Rural America in the 21st Century: perspectives from the field , Andrea Colnes, Curt D. Grimm, Amy Seif Hattan, and Nena F. Stracuzzi

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Rural children increasingly rely on Medicaid and state child health insurance programs for medical care, William P. O'Hare

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Rural soldiers continue to account for disproportionately high share of U.S. casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan, William P. O'Hare and Bill Bishop

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Rural workers would benefit more than urban workers from an increase in the federal minimum wage, William P. O'Hare

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The changing faces of New England: increasing spatial and racial diversity, Kenneth M. Johnson

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The changing faces of New Hampshire: recent demographic trends in the Granite State, Kenneth M. Johnson

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The state of working New Hampshire 2007, Allison Churilla

Publications from 2006

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Changing church in the south: religion and politics in Elba, Alabama, Julie Ardery

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Child poverty in rural America: new data shows increases in 41 states, William P. O'Hare and Sarah Savage

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Demographic trends in rural and small town America, Kenneth M. Johnson

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Low-Income families in New Hampshire, Allison Churilla

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Low-skill workers in rural America face permanent job loss, Amy Glasmeier and Priscilla Salant

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New immigrant settlements in rural America: problems, prospects, and policies, Leif Jensen

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Resident ownership in New Hampshire's "mobile home parks": A report on economic outcomes (revised 2010), Sally Ward, Charles A. French, and Kelly Giraud

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Rural families choose home-based child care for their preschool-aged children, Kristin Smith

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Rural voting in the 2004 election, Lawrence C. Hamilton

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Subprime and predatory lending in rural America: mortgage lending practices that can trap low-income rural people, Carla Dickstein, Lance George, Theresa Singleton, and Hannah Thomas

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Substance abuse in rural and small town America, Karen T. Van Gundy

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The state of working New Hampshire 2006, Allison Churilla

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The state of working Vermont 2006, Allison Churilla

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U.S. rural soldiers account for a disproportionately high share of casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan, William P. O'Hare and Bill Bishop

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Values and religion in rural America: attitudes toward abortion and same-sex relations, Michele Dillon and Sarah Savage

Publications from 2005

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21st Century restructuring of employment in the Northeast, Amy Glasmeier

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Rural America depends on the Food Stamp Program to make ends meet, Priscilla Salant and Kristin Smith

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Rural community development: A new paradigm?, Cynthia M. Duncan