Rural Poverty Research Symposium - December 2-3, 2013
Agenda and Presentations
| Monday, December 2, 2013 | |
| Welcome Dave Altig, Executive Vice President and Director of Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta |
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| 1:00 | Remarks Doug O'Brien, Acting Under Secretary for Rural Development, U.S. Department of Agriculture |
| 1:15 | Session 1 Persistence and Concentration of Poverty Moderator: Rachel Welborn, Southern Rural Development Center Discussant: Dick Todd, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis [Presentation]  "Rural Poverty over Time and Space: a Sub-County Analysis of Persistent Concentrated Poverty" Tracey Farrigan, USDA Economic Research Service "Persistent Poverty Revisited: New Measures, New Methods, and the Rural-Urban Divide" David Peters, Iowa State University "The Great Recession and the Changing Geography of Food Stamp Receipt" Tim Slack, Louisiana State University |
| 3:30 | Session 2 Measurement and Demography of Poverty Moderator: Linda Hoke, Southern Consortium of University Public Service Organizations (SCUPSO) Discussant: Robert Gibbs, U.S. Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service "Hispanics at the Starting Line: Born into Poverty in Established Gateways and New Destinations" Daniel Lichter, Cornell University "Hispanic Trends" Marybeth Mattingly, the Carsey Center and the Stanford Institute on Poverty and Inequality "The Virginia Poverty Measure" Qian Cai, Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, University of Virginia |
| Dinner and keynote speaker Mark Partridge, C. William Swank Chair of Rural-Urban Policy, Ohio State University [Presentation] |
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| Tuesday, December 3, 2013 | |
| 8:00 | Session 3 Social and Political Aspects of Poverty Moderator: Kostas Skordas, Appalachian Regional Commission Discussant: Scott Loveridge, Michigan State University and North Central Regional Center for Rural Development [Presentation] "The Geography of Exclusion: Race, Segregation, and Concentrated Poverty" Domenico "Mimmo" Parisi, Mississippi State University "Sending off All Your Good Treasures: Rural Schools, Brain Drain, and Community Survival in the Wake of the Economic Collapse" Jennifer Sherman, Washington State University "On Persistent Poverty in a Rich Country" James Ziliak, University of Kentucky |
| 10:15 | Session 4 Practitioner Roundtable Moderator: Bo Beaulieu, Purdue University Ivye Allen, Foundation for the Mid South [Presentation] Michelle Eley, North Carolina A&T State University [Presentation] Pamela Monroe, Louisiana State University Veronica Womack, Georgia College [Presentation] |
| Lunch and keynote speaker Cynthia "Mil" Duncan, Founding Director, the Carsey Institute, University of New Hampshire, and Research Director, AGree |
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| 1:30 | Session 5 Issues and Policies on Alleviating Poverty Moderator: Ed Sivak, Mississippi Economic Policy Center Discussant: Don Albrecht, Utah State University, Western Rural Development Center "County Information Networks, Social Capital, and Poverty Reduction" Stephan Goetz, Pennsylvania State University and Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development "Poverty, Public Health, and Local Foods" Steven Deller, University of Wisconsin–Madison "Federal Forest Policy and Community Vitality in the Pacific Northwest: How Did the Northwest Forest Plan Affect Population, Wealth, and Income in Rural Communities?" Bruce Weber, Oregon State University |
| 3:00 | Next steps Karen Leone de Nie, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta |
| 3:30 | Adjournment |