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Product Archives
Editorials
Policy Briefs and White Papers
Poverty and Welfare Reform
Rural Health Panel Documents
Speech
State Profiles
Telecommunications
Testimony
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Policy Briefs and White Papers
- Philanthropy and Rural Policy: Reframing the Way Forward - PDF
- A background briefing report to the National Rural Funders Collaborative (NRFC) in preparation for a consultative dialogue with the U.S. foundation community interested in national rural policy issues.
February 2007
- What Does Finland Have that We Don't? - PDF
- RUPRI Farm Bill Policy Brief #2.
Wayne Myers, MD, 2006-07 RUPRI Policy Fellow
- Targeting Rural Populations based on Urbanized Area Geographies - PDF
- RUPRI Farm Bill Policy Brief #1
Kathleen K. Miller, RUPRI Program Director and Charles W. Fluharty, RUPRI President
- Rural Governance Report - PDF
- Eight Priniciples for Effective Rural Governance...And How Communities Put Them into Practice
Report by the RUPRI Rural Governance Initiative
July 2006
- Effective Rural Governance: What is it: Does it Matter - PDF
- Briefing Paper by Nancy Stark, Director of the RUPRI Rural Governance Initiative
June 2005
- Critical Review of the IC2 Institute Report - PDF
- The Certified Capital Companies Economic Development Innovation: Missouri's Experience To Date
Policy Brief from the RUPRI Rural Equity Capital Task Force
March 2000
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Poverty and Welfare Reform
- Rural Poverty and Rural-Urban Income Gaps: A Troubling Snapshot of the - PDF
- RUPRI Data Report
Kathleen Miller, RUPRI Program Director and Thomas Rowley, RUPRI Fellow
July 2002
- Welfare Reform in Rural America: A Review of Current Research - PDF
- Policy Brief from the RUPRI Rural Welfare Reform Research Panel
February 2, 2001
- Rural America and Welfare Reform: An Overview Assessment - PDF
- Policy Breif from the RUPRI Rural Welfare Policy Panel
February 10, 1999
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Rural Health Panel Documents
- Bridging Rural Health Research and Policy: Dissemination Strategies - PDF
- Report from the RUPRI Rural Health Panel
August 2007
- Choosing Rural Definitions: Implications for Health Policy - PDF
- RUPRI Rural Health Panel Issue Brief #2
Andrew F. Coburn, A. Clinton MacKinney, Timothy D. McBride, Keith J. Mueller, Rebecca T. Slifkin, and Mary K. Wakefield
March 2007
- Medicaid and Its Importance to Rural Health - PDF
- Issue brief from the RUPRI Rural Health Panel
May 2006
- The Institue of Medicine Rural Health Report: Next Steps in Legislation and Programs - PDF
- Policy Paper from the RUPRI Rural Health Panel
February 2006
- Impacts of the Medicare Modernization Act on Rural Health Systems and Beneficiaries - PDF
- Policy Paper from the RUPRI Rural Health Panel
February 2005
- An Assessment of Proposals for a Medicare Outpatient Prescription Drug Benefit: The Rural Perspective - PDF
- Policy Paper from the RUPRI Rural Health Panel
January 2003
- Comments on the June 2001 Report of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission: Medicare in Rural America - PDF
- Report by the RUPRI Rural Health Panel
September 2001
- Redesigning Medicare: Considerations for Rural Beneficiaries and Health Systems - PDF
- Special Monograph from the RUPRI Rural Health Panel
May 2001
- Update on Medicare+ Choice: Rural Medicare Beneficiaries Enrolled in Medicare+ Choice Plans througth October 2000 - PDF
- Policy Brief from the RUPRI Rural Health Panel
March 2001
- Rural Implications of the Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Benefits Improvement and Protection Act of 2000 - PDF
- RUPRI Rural Health Panel Policy Document P2001-3
January 15, 2001
- Redesigning the Medicare Program: An Opportunity to Improve Rural Health Care Systems? - PDF
- Report from the RUPRI Rural Health Panel
August 2000
- Designing a Prescription Drug Benefit for Rural Medicare Beneficiaries: Principles, Criteria, and Assessment - PDF
- A Joint Policy Paper of the Maine Rural Health Research Center and the RUPRI Rural Health Panel
August 2000
- Area Wage Index of the Medicare Inpatient Hospital Prospective Payment System: Perspecitves, Policies, and Choices - PDF
- Policy Report from the RUPRI Rural Health Panel
Guest Author Anthony Wellever
August 2000
- Improving Prescription Drug Coverage for Rural Medicare Beneficiaries: Key Rural Considerations and Objectives for Legislative Proposals - PDF
- A Joint Policy Paper of the Maine Rural Health Research Center and the RUPRI Rural Health Panel
June 2000
- Report on Enrollment: Rural Medicare Beneficiaries in Medicare+Choice Plans - PDF
- Policy Brief from the RUPRI Rural Health Panel
June 2000
- Calculating and Using the Area Wage Index of the Medicare Inpatient Hospital Prospective Payment System - PDF
- Policy Brief from the RUPRI Rural Health Panel
Guest Author Anthony Wellever
June 2000
- Rural Assessment of Leading Proposals to Redesign the Medicare Program - PDF
- Report from the RUPRI Rural Health Panel
May 2000
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Speech
- New Strategies for Texas' Economies - PDF
- Presented by Mark Drabenstott, Director of RUPRI's Center for Regional Competitiveness to the Texas Rural Innovators Forum in Austin, TX.
September 2007
- Challenges Facing Rural Areas - PDF
- Presented by RUPRI Program Director Kathleen Miller at the Welfare Peer Technical Assistance Network Workshop:
Effective Service Delivery for TANF Clients in Rural Areas
Salt Lake City, UT
May 23, 2007
- Leading the Rural Renaissance: Accepting the R.D. Challenge! - PDF
- Presented by RUPRI President Charles W. Fluharty to the Iowa State USDA Rural Development Meeting
Des Moines, Iowa
April 3, 2007
- Rural Policy as Though Rural People and Places Mattered: A Bridging Model Across the Rural Policy / Practice Chasm - PDF
- Presentation by RUPRI President Charles W. Fluharty to the Texas Rural Innovators Forum
Bastrop, TX
March 20, 2007
- Rural Development Opportunities in the Next Farm Bill: Aligning Rural Initiatives and Ag Policies in a Regional Rural Innovation System - PDF
- Presentation by RUPRI President Charles W. Fluharty at the NADO 2007 Washington Policy Conference
Washington, D.C.
March 13, 2007
- Crafting a Way Forward: The Rural/URban Dynamic in Regional Competitiveness - PDF
- Presentation to the OECD/Scottish Executive Conference: Investment Priorities for Rural Development by Charles W. Fluharty, RUPRI President.
October 2006
- An Opportunity in the New Farm Bill - PDF
- Can Rural Initiatives and Farm Programs Be Aligned? Presentation to the Agriculture and Rural Development Committee, 2006 NCSL Annual Meeting, Nashville, TN, by Charles W. Fluharty, RUPRI Director
August 2006
- Getting to There from Here: Rural and Regional Developmment - PDF
- Presentation to the National Association of Regional Councils 40th Annual Conference: Regional Readiness Responding to Change, by Brian Dabson, RUPRI Executive Vice President.
June 2006
- A New Rural Vision: Policy as though Rural Communities and People Mattered - PDF
- Presentation to Cultivating Hope, Harvesting Action: The 6th Regional Conference on Rural Poverty and Social Change, The University of Massachusetts, Amherst, by Charles W. Fluharty, RUPRI President.
June 2006
- Why Entrepreneurship? A Vision and Policy Pointers for Maine - PDF
- Presentation to the Enterprise Development Works! Policy Forum, Augusta, Maine, by Brian Dabson, RUPRI Executive Vice President.
June 2006
- No Hiding Place - PDF
- Presenation to the ECOP Leadership Advisory Council by Brian Dabson, RUPRI Executive Vice President.
May 2006
- Competitiveness, Entrpreneurship and Governance in Rural America - PDF
- Presentation to the Mississippi Entrepreneurial Alliance Conference, Oxford, MS, by Brian Dabson, RUPRI Executive Vice President.
May 2006
- Entrepreneurship and Wealth Creation in Greater Minnesota - PDF
- Presentation to the RED Group Conference, Minneapolis, MN, by Brian Dabson, RUPRI Executive Vice President.
April 2006
- Current U.S. Rural Policy Framework: Toward a Regional Rural Innovation Strategy - PDF
- Speech to the International Seminar on Rural Development and the Agroalimentary Sector: Future Strategies
Charles W. Fluharty, RUPRI Director
March 25, 2006
Queretaro, Mexico
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State Profiles
- Maryland - PDF
- Maryland Demographic and Economic Profile, updated December 2006
- New Jersey - PDF
- New Jersey Demographic and Economic Profile, updated December 2006
- Rhode Island - PDF
- Rhode Island Demographic and Economic Profile, updated December 2006
- Vermont - PDF
- Vermont Demographic and Economic Profile, updated November 2006
- New Hampshire - PDF
- New Hampshire Demographic and Economic Profile, updated October 2006
- Oklahoma - PDF
- Oklahoma Demographic and Economic Profile, updated October 2006
- South Carolina - PDF
- South Carolina Demographic and Economic Profile, updated October 2006
- Virginia - PDF
- Virginia Demographic and Economic Profile, updated October 2006
- Wyoming - PDF
- Wyoming Demographic and Economic Profile, updated October 2006
- Michigan - PDF
- Michigan Demographic and Economic Profile, updated September 2006
- Tennessee - PDF
- Tennessee Demographic and Economic Profile, updated September 2006
- Kansas - PDF
- Kansas Demographic and Economic Profile, updated July 2006
- Louisiana - PDF
- Louisiana Demographic and Economic Profile, updated July 2006
- Minnesota - PDF
- Minnesota Demographic and Economic Profile, updated July 2006
- New York - PDF
- New York Demographic and Economic Profile, updated July 2006
- Utah - PDF
- Utah Demographic and Economic Profile, updated July 2006
- Washington - PDF
- Washington Demographic and Economic Profile, updated July 2006
- Kentucky - PDF
- Kentucky Demographic and Economic Profile, updated June 2006
- Massachusetts - PDF
- Massachusetts Demographic and Economic Profile, updated June 2006
- New Mexico - PDF
- New Mexico Demographic and Economic Profile, updated June 2006
- North Carolina - PDF
- North Carolina Demographic and Economic Profile, updated June 2006
- North Dakota - PDF
- North Dakota Demographic and Economic Profile, updated June 2006
- Ohio - PDF
- Ohio Demographic and Economic Profile, updated June 2006
- Pennsylvania - PDF
- Pennsylvania Demographic and Economic Profile, updated June 2006
- South Dakota - PDF
- South Dakota Demographic and Economic Profile, updated June 2006
- West Virginia - PDF
- West Virginia Demographic and Economic Profile, updated June 2006
- Wisconsin - PDF
- Wisconsin Demographic and Economic Profile, updated June 2006
- Iowa - PDF
- Iowa Demographic and Economic Profile, updated May 2006
- Maine - PDF
- Maine Demographic and Economic Profile, updated May 2006
- Mississippi - PDF
- Mississippi Demographic and Economic Profile, updated May 2006
- Montana - PDF
- Montana Demographic and Economic Profile, updated May 2006
- Nebraska - PDF
- Nebraska Demographic and Economic Profile, updated May 2006
- Nevada - PDF
- Nevada Demographic and Economic Profile, updated May 2006
- Oregon - PDF
- Oregon Demographic and Economic Profile, updated May 2006
- Missouri - PDF
- Missouri Demographic and Economic Profile, updated April 2006
- Texas - PDF
- Texas Demographic and Economic Profile, updated April 2006
- Alabama - PDF
- Alabama Demographic and Economic Profile, updated January 2007
- Alaska - PDF
- Alaska Demographic and Economic Profile, updated August 2006
- Arizona - PDF
- Arizona Demographic and Economic Profile, updated August 2006
- Arkansas - PDF
- Arkansas Demographic and Economic Profile, updated August 2006
- California - PDF
- California Demographic and Economic Profile, updated July 2006
- Colorado - PDF
- Colorado Demographic and Economic Profile, updated December 2006
- Connecticut - PDF
- Connecticut Demographic and Economic Profile, updated December 2006
- Delaware - PDF
- Delaware Demographic and Economic Profile, updated December 2006
- Indiana - PDF
- Indiana Demographic and Economic Profile, updated May 2006
- Illinois - PDF
- Illinois Demographic and Economic Profile, updated September 2006
- Idaho - PDF
- Idaho Demographic and Economic Profile, updated June 2006
- Hawaii - PDF
- Hawaii Demographic and Economic Profile, updated September 2006
- Georgia - PDF
- Georgia Demographic and Economic Profile, updated July 2006
- Florida - PDF
- Florida Demographic and Economic Profile, updated December 2006
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Telecommunications
- Rural America In the Digital Age: Policy Brief - PDF
- Policy Brief from the RUPRI Telecommunications Panel
August 13, 2003
- Rural America in the Digital Age: Report - PDF
- A Preliminary Assessment of the State of the Information / Telecommunications Infrastructure in Ten Counties of North Dakota and Pennsylvania
Jorge Reina Schement and Marsha Ann Tate
August 13, 2003
- Defining the Challenge of Broadband Deployment in Rural Areas - PDF
- Report by Stephen D. McDowell and Shree Venkatachalam
RUPRI Rural Telecommunications Panel
January 2003
- Rural Implications of H.R. 1542: The Internet Freedom and Broadband Deployment Act of 2001 - PDF
- Policy Brief by Sharon Strover, Chair of the RUPRI Telecommunications Panel
July 11, 2001
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Testimony
- Testimony before the Subcommittee on Specialty Crops, Rural Development and Foreign Agriculture - PDF
- Charles W. Fluharty, RUPRI President
Written statement for the record
Testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives
Committe on Agriculture
Subcommittee on Specialty Crops, Rural Development and Foreign Agriculture
March 21, 2007
- Senate Ag Committee Testimony - PDF
- Writtent statement for the record by Charles W. Fluharty - testimony before the Senate Ag Committee regarding the Rural Development Title of the new Farm Bill.
February 13, 2007
- Testimony before the Committee on Agriculture, U.S. House of Representatives - PDF
- Charles W. Fluharty, RUPRI Director
Written Statement for the Record.
March 30, 2006.
- Testimony before the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management - PDF
- Charles W. Fluharty, RUPRI Director
Written Statement for the Record
Testimony before the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management
U.S. House of Representatives
March 17, 2005
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Other
- Why Rural Matters III - PDF
- The Rural Impacts of the Administration FY08 Budget Proposal
From the National Rural Network
March 2007
- Urban/Rural Areas and CBSAs - PDF
- Internal Working Paper
Kathleen Miller, RUPRI Program Director
August 2006
- Overview of the Coalition of State Policy Centers - PDF
- Bobby Gierisch, Director of RUPRI State Policy Programs
August 2006
- Micropolitan Areas Overview - PDF
- Internal Working Paper
Kathleen Miller, RUPRI Program Director
July 2006
- Rural Centers in the South - PDF
- Profiles of Rural Centers in the South. Prepared by Bobby Gierisch, Director of RUPRI State Policy Programs for the Southern Legislative Conference
July 2006
- The Minnesota Model for Rural Development - PDF
- Bobby Gierisch, RUPRI Director for State Policy Programs
July 2006
- State Rural Initiatives - Where the Money Comes From - PDF
- Prepared by Bobby Gierisch, Director of RUPRI State Policy Programs for the Fourth Annual Agriculture Chairs Summit.
January 2006
- Craig Thomas R-Hope Act - PDF
- Craig Thomas R-Hope Act
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