{"product_id":"rural-poverty-in-the-united-states-9780231172233","title":"Rural Poverty in the United States","description":"\u003cp\u003eAmerica's rural areas have always held a disproportionate share of the nation's poorest populations. \u003ci\u003eRural Poverty in the United States\u003c\/i\u003e examines why. What is it about the geography, demography, and history of rural communities that keeps them poor? In a comprehensive analysis that extends from the Civil War to the present, \u003ci\u003eRural Poverty in the United States\u003c\/i\u003e looks at access to human and social capital; food security; healthcare and the environment; homelessness; gender roles and relations; racial inequalities; and immigration trends to isolate the underlying causes of persistent rural poverty. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eContributors to this volume incorporate approaches from multiple disciplines, including sociology, economics, demography, race and gender studies, public health, education, criminal justice, social welfare, and other social science fields. They take a hard look at current and past programs to alleviate rural poverty and use their failures to suggest alternatives that could improve the well-being of rural Americans for years to come. These essays work hard to define rural poverty's specific metrics and markers, a critical step for building better policy and practice. Considering gender, race, and immigration, the book appreciates the overlooked structural and institutional dimensions of ongoing rural poverty and its larger social consequences.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnn R. Tickamyer is professor of rural sociology in the Department of Agricultural Economics, Sociology, and Education in the College of Agricultural Science at Pennsylvania State University. She is the coeditor of \u003ci\u003eEconomic Restructuring \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eand Family Well-Being in Rural America\u003c\/i\u003e (2011) and coauthor of \u003ci\u003ePower, Change, and \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eGender Relations in Rural Java: A Tale of Two Villages\u003c\/i\u003e (2012). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJennifer Sherman is associate professor in the Department of Sociology at Washington State University. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eThose Who Work, Those Who Don't: \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ePoverty, Morality, and Family in Rural America\u003c\/i\u003e (2009). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJennifer Warlick is associate professor of economics and public policy at the University of Notre Dame and the director of their Poverty Studies Interdisciplinary Minor. She has also been an economist at the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare and a fellow at the Institute for Research on Poverty.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50844168978706,"sku":"9780231172233","price":46.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_43ef3ff2-d7c3-4d2b-b889-de6c580019dd.jpg?v=1737313100","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/rural-poverty-in-the-united-states-9780231172233","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}