Welfare Reform for Rural America

For twenty-five years, my research on poverty in the rural U. S. has been guided by a conviction that anthropological insights should/could be useful for the amelioration of poverty and in creating more effective policies and programs. I began with very localized, long-term ethnographic research, combined with community action, in pockets of poverty in upstate New York. More recently, I have substituted geographic breadth for ethnographic depth, conducting research in numerous other communities of upstate New York and in a few dozen sites dispersed through nine other states where rural poverty is embedded in different regional, economic, and sociocultural contexts

Action (physics · Conviction · Dozen · Economic growth · Economics · Ethnography · Political science · Poverty · Rural area · Rural poverty · Sociocultural evolution · Sociology · Welfare · Anthropology · Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations · Law · Organic Food and Agriculture · Rural development and sustainability