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Hard living in America's heartland rural poverty in the 21st century Midwest

Despite living hard, endlessly challenging lives, the rural poor remain tirelessly optimistic, believing things will get better next year. As one struggling farmer explained, "Sometimes I feel like a jackass in a hailstorm--I just have to stand here and take it...but what the hell--it'll stop hailing sooner or later." The struggle to survive on the richest farmland in America has produced some of the nation's poorest people. However, rural poverty is not the same as urban poverty: the usual definitions and criteria do not always apply, the known predictors do not necessarily hold up, and again and again the rural poor save themselves because they know no one else will. This book refutes the common image of the poor as lazy slackers averse to work. In reality, fiercely independent, politically astute, hard-working men and women who possess a wide array of useful skills populate the rural heartland--and they struggle to stay afloat in small-town economies that rise and fall on the whims of remote farm policy decisions, a volatile world marketplace and Mother Nature, who is a fickle, wildly unpredictable business partner.--COVER.

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English
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266

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Hard living in America's heartland rural poverty in the 21st century Midwest
2015, McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
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Table of Contents

We ain't got much, but we do got plenty : understanding rural poverty when the usual criteria don't apply
Living off the land : a brief history of rural Midwestern America
America's heartland : life in the Midwestern farm states
Feeding candy to the cows : the rural midwestern farm economy
Get big or get out : rural America moves into the 21st century
Throwing cow chips for entertainment : the pluses and minuses of rural community life
Poverty makes you sick : the rural health care problem
One-cop towns : rural crime and punishment
Go to school or go to work? is formal education the answer?
Conclusion : the invisible poor.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 261 -262) and index.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
330.977
Library of Congress
HC107.A14 D35 2015, HC107.A14D35 2015

The Physical Object

Pagination
ix, 266 pages
Number of pages
266

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL27186478M
Internet Archive
hardlivinginamer0000dail
ISBN 10
0786474815
ISBN 13
9780786474813
LCCN
2014048465
OCLC/WorldCat
882191789

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