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1.	PDF RDP696c Communities May Lose Military Retirees Along with Their Bases Fagan, Mark ; Reeder, Richard Survey results from the Fort McClellan, AL, area suggest that military retirees contribute significantly to the economic, fiscal, and social fabric of the community, but [...] English \| 1996-06 \| Journal Article \| Detailed record - Similar records
2.	PDF RDP1095d Returning the Wolf to the Northwest Davison, Cecil W. ; Ghelfi, Linda M. ; Mann Lindsay The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service began reintroducing wolves to the wilderness areas of Yellowstone National Park and central Idaho in 1995. Based on the experiences of [...] English \| 1995-10 \| Journal Article \| Detailed record - Similar records
3.	PDF RDP1095c Historic Preservation as Part of Downtown Redevelopment Stenberg, Peter L. ; Ghelfi, Linda M. ; Mann Lindsay For decades nonmetro downtown business districts have faced pressures from shopping center developments and stagnating economic bases. Some communities are using histori [...] English \| 1995-10 \| Journal Article \| Detailed record - Similar records
4.	PDF RDP1095b Rural Consumers Go to Town with Retail Dollars Gale, H. Frederick ; Ghelfi, Linda M. ; Mann Lindsay Residents of small rural communities make more than half of their retail purchases in large towns and cities that attract retail trade from the surrounding area. The int [...] English \| 1995-10 \| Journal Article \| Detailed record - Similar records
5.	PDF RDP1095a Many Low-Income Rural Families Benefit from the Earned Income Tax Credit Durst, Ron ; Ghelfi, Linda M. ; Mann Lindsay The earned income tax credit has become a major source of income support for low-income workers and their families. The credit provided 37 million rural working poor wit [...] English \| 1995-10 \| Journal Article \| Detailed record - Similar records
6.	PDF RDP0695h More Metro than Nonmetro Students Have Access to Computers, But Their Rates of Usage Are Similar Greenberg, Elizabeth J. ; Ghelfi, Linda M. ; Mann, Lindsay Computers are available to students in most U.S. high schools, but they are most likely to be available in schools in or near urban areas. Both metro and nonmetro school [...] English \| 1995-06 \| Journal Article \| Detailed record - Similar records
7.	PDF RDP0695g Job Training Lags for Rural Workers Swaim, Paul L. ; Ghelfi, Linda M. ; Mann, Lindsay Post-school training is an important component of the rural workforce skill development system, but, in 1991, just 40 percent of the nonmetro workforce had received train [...] English \| 1995-06 \| Journal Article \| Detailed record - Similar records
8.	PDF RDP0695f Workers With Higher Literacy Skills Not as Well Rewarded in Rural Areas Greenberg, Elizabeth J. ; Swaim, Paul L. ; Teixeira, Ruy A. ; Ghelfi, Linda M.[...] According to the 1992 National Adult Literacy Survey, rural workers score somewhat lower than their urban counterparts in their ability to use written and quantitative ma [...] English \| 1995-06 \| Journal Article \| Detailed record - Similar records
9.	PDF RDP0695e Going Away to College and Wider Urban Job Opportunities Take Highly Educated Youth Away from Rural Areas Gibbs, Robert M. ; Ghelfi, Linda M. ; Mann, Lindsay Rural high school graduates are less likely to graduate from college than are urban graduates, mostly because they are less likely to attend college in the first place. [...] English \| 1995-06 \| Journal Article \| Detailed record - Similar records
10.	PDF RDP0695d More Rural Students Are Graduating from High School, But a Serious Dropout Problem Remains Paasch, Kathleen M. ; Swaim, Paul L. The nonmetro dropout rate fell sharply between 1975 and 1993, closing the nonmetro-metro gap in high school completion, but only narrowing the nonmetro-suburban gap. Des [...] English \| 1995-06 \| Journal Article \| Detailed record - Similar records

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