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Rural America is at a crossroads in its economic development. Like
regions of other First World nations, the traditional economic base
of rural communities in the United States is rapidly deteriorating.
Natural resources, including agriculture, show little prospect for
generating future job growth, and manufacturing has become a new
source of instability. Faced with these changes and an increasing
vulnerability to international economic events, rural communities
have begun to seek high-technology industries and advanced services
as candidates for job growth and economic stability. What is the
potential for high-tech growth outside the largest cities? What is
the role of high-tech industry in the economic development of
non-metropolitan America? This book provides a hard-nosed look at
the high-tech potential in rural economic development. Some of the
questions Glasmeier addresses include: Are rural areas attractive
to high tech? Will high tech follow earlier patterns and filter
down the lowest-paid jobs to rural areas? Will rural communities be
bypassed completely for even lower-wage Third World locations?
Glasmeier answers in a sober analysis that separates fact from
myth. Empirical data reveals the kinds of high-tech jobs that
locate in rural areas, and the kinds of rural areas that attract
high-tech jobs. This analysis leads to a highly critical evaluation
of state and local economic development policy and recommendations
for its improvement. This book is a must for policymakers,
practitioners, scholars, and an informed public interested in the
promise of high tech and the future of US economic development.
Persistant poverty has long been one of America's most pressing
and intractable problems. According to some estimates, by 2003,
almost twenty-five percent of the America's countries had
per-capita incomes below one half the national average, high
unemployment, low labour force participation rates, and a high
dependency on government transfer payments - all measures of
economic distress. An Atlas of Poverty in America shows how and
where America's regional development patterns have become more
uneven, and graphically illustrates the increasing number of
communities falling behind the national economic average. Readers
will be able to use this Atlas to see how major events and trends
have impacted the scope and extent of American poverty in the past
half-century: economic globalization, the rise of the sunbelt,
decline of the welfare state, and the civil rights movement. Also
includes 195 colour maps.
Persistant poverty has long been one of America's most pressing
and intractable problems. According to some estimates, by 2003,
almost twenty-five percent of the America's countries had
per-capita incomes below one half the national average, high
unemployment, low labour force participation rates, and a high
dependency on government transfer payments - all measures of
economic distress. An Atlas of Poverty in America shows how and
where America's regional development patterns have become more
uneven, and graphically illustrates the increasing number of
communities falling behind the national economic average. Readers
will be able to use this Atlas to see how major events and trends
have impacted the scope and extent of American poverty in the past
half-century: economic globalization, the rise of the sunbelt,
decline of the welfare state, and the civil rights movement. Also
includes 195 colour maps.
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