Bulletin No.

602

Document Type

Bulletin

Department

Department of Rural Sociology

Description

A sample of 120 low-income families receiving USDA food commodities in three eastern South Dakota counties was studied to: 1) provide a socio-demographic overview of the characteristics possessed by these families; 2) test the applicability of the Culture of Poverty approach for classifying rural, low-income families; 3) attempt to construct a typology based on the extent of homogeneity of heterogeneity exhibited among low-income rural families; and 4) present the implications of the study for policy making and program planning.

Keywords

rural poverty, rural economics, South Dakota poverty

Pages

19

Publication Date

9-1972

Type

text

Format

application/pdf

Language

en

Publisher

South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station, South Dakota State University

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