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[koshergrl]

Which sort of puts the lie to the lazy, entitlement-focused poor idiots in the woods...there are fewer jobs to be had out here, and yet the percentage of welfare recipients isn't any higher than in the areas where the job market is more diversified...

 

[Old Rocks]

Which sort of puts the lie to the lazy, entitlement-focused poor idiots in the woods...there are fewer jobs to be had out here, and yet the percentage of welfare recipients isn't any higher than in the areas where the job market is more diversified...

So you state. Links?

 

[Old Rocks]

http://www.cwla.org/programs/culturalcompetence/rural.htm

Rural Communities in Child Welfare Resource Center

Rural Communities

Rural: areas designated as outside a metropolitan statistical area. The Census Bureau describes a metropolitan statistical area as "a geographical area consisting of a large population nucleus, together with adjacent communities, which have a high degree of economic and social integration with that nucleus." According to the Census Bureau 1998 estimates, 24.9% of the population lives outside of metropolitan areas. (Population Estimates Program, Population Division, US Census Bureau) We will define a rural community as one that exhibits the following three characteristics: low population density, distance from urban centers with access to social services, and specialization of economic function. 1
Challenges Rural Communities Face

The needs of children and families in rural communities are related to a range of conditions that typify rural communities as a whole, such as poverty, barriers posed by cultural and racial differences, and geographical and social isolation. Some of these conditions include:
23% of poor homeowner households and 27% of poor renter households were inadequately housed, compared to 17% and 22% in urban areas.
Higher poverty levels among rural families are tied to specific economic disadvantages: lower average incomes, low or seasonal employment, and out-migration of the better-educated. Poverty is also tied to significant health risks, such as higher rates of infant mortality, childhood illness, and nutritional deficits.
Poverty and rurality are both correlated with higher rates of disability. According to 1995 data, the 12.5 million people with disabilities who live in non-metro areas (23%) make up a higher proportion of the total than those who live in metro areas (18%).
Poor rural people cannot afford their housing because they lack necessary income, not because rural housing is very expensive. 2
Some statistics From the Economic Research Service on Rural Communities:
Poverty is 2 percentage points higher in rural areas than in urban areas (15.6% rural; 13.4% urban).
Non-metropolitan poverty rate, at 15.9%, was higher that the rate inside metropolitan areas, at 12.6%. It was also higher then the national poverty rate of 13.3%.
Poverty in the rural south is 19.2%.
The unemployment rate is 16% higher in rural areas than in urban areas (1st quarter 1997).
3.2 million rural children live in poverty.
Child poverty rates in US rural communities increased 76% between 1973 and 1992.
The gap between urban and rural unemployment rates increased and child poverty has remained intractable.
23% of rural poor were either full time workers or were in families with one or more full time workers.
6.3 million rural households have household incomes under $15,000.
More than 60% of rural people in poverty worked at least part time or had a family member who worked at least part time. 3

 

[koshergrl]

Poverty in Multnomah, Josephine and Lane counties are all at right around 20 percent.

And Oregon isn't the rural south.

Metropolitan Knowledge Network | New Census Data Show Poverty on the Rise in Oregon and Nationwide

 

[koshergrl]

Anyway, if you want a thread about how rural people should move to the cities and get jobs because they're worthless welfare recipients, I think you should start a thread on that.