rural poverty
Agricultural community need
Rural poverty is economic hardship in countryside and agricultural areas, distinct from urban poverty in its causes and character.
It typically involves limited access to services, jobs, and infrastructure that cities take for granted.
Rural poverty in Appalachia has persisted for generations.
The phrase often appears in policy discussions about development and inequality.
- child laborMinors performing paid work
- unemploymentBeing without paid work
- working poorEmployed but below comfort
- droughtProlonged water scarcity
- subsistence farmingGrowing food for household
family farm · malnutrition · social exclusion · economic stagnation · hard times · landlessness · income inequality · wage disparity · sharecropping · illiteracy · tenant farming · gender inequality · food insecurity · food desert · crop failure · water scarcity · deforestation · extreme weather events
- povertypoor, impoverished, destitution, penniless, needy
- frontier lifehomesteaders, farmer, homesteading, shepherd, pioneer women
- 1930sNew Deal, Hitler, Nazi Germany, Great Depression, appeasement
- Midwest Economycorn farming, wheat farming, grain elevators, farm equipment, John Deere
- peasantryserfs, tenant farmers, villagers, common folk, laborers
- Rural Educationone-room schoolhouse, one-room schools, village schools, teacher shortage, teacher shortages
rural povertyurban elite
Privileged city-dwelling class