Rural Populations

Spotlights

Family photograph of parents with a child Find Information for Rural Families

USDA. NAL. Rural Information Center.

Look at these Rural Families programs and information.


Agricultural workers in a field National Center for Farmworker Health

National Center for Farmworker Health

"Mission is to improve the health status of farmworker families through appropriate application of human, technical, and information resources."


House in need of repairs Rural Income, Poverty, and Welfare

USDA. Economic Research Service.

Provides the information on poverty trends and demographic characteristics of the rural poor.


Mother and two children produce shopping Rural Families

The Annie E. Casey Foundation

The Foundation invests to improve the outcomes of children and families in isolated and economically distressed rural communities. This section has "resources including data on families living in rural areas and strategies to promote their economic success."


National Resource Center on Native American Aging

University of North Dakota. School of Medicine and Health Science. Center for Rural Health.


Rural Sociological Society

Rural Sociological Society.


Rural Human Services Initiative

Rural Policy Research Institute.


National Resource Center for American Indians, Alaska Natives and Native Hawaiian Elders

DHHS. Administration on Aging. University of Alaska Anchorage and the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium.


AgingStats.Gov

Federal Interagency Forum on Aging-Related Statistics.


Data Sources for Research in Aging

University of Wisconsin-Madison. Center for Demography and Ecology and Center for Demography of Health and Aging.


Population Dynamics Are Changing the Profile of Rural Areas

USDA. Economic Research Service.

From Amber Waves, April 2007


Indian Pow Wow dancing in Minnesota Native Americans

USDA. NAL. Rural Information Center.

Contains links to Native American organizations, planning tools, case studies, funding programs, federal, state and local contacts, statistical data and online publications.


Poverty

DOC. United States Census Bureau.