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Addressing Philanthropic Blind Spots

October 25, 2021

Philanthropy has a rural blind spot (SSIR Spring 2021).   According to Robert Atkins, Sarah Allred, and Daniel Hart, the distance of the wealthiest philanthropies, which are often located

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Calculating Inequality: The Paradox of Rural Poverty and Federal Income Limits

July 19, 2021

Policymakers have long grappled with the challenge of judiciously marshalling taxpayer resources to support the communities and programs where public investments will have the strongest impact. In

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To Eliminate Persistent Poverty, We Require Real Investment to Match the Existing Capacity

December 6, 2019

It used to be no one seemed to take much notice of rural parts of our country.  I’ve noticed that in the past few years that has changed, but the attention has not all been positive.  In

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