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Poverty in the rural United States by Paul Dudenhefer What is persistent rural poverty? The Task Force defines persistent rural poverty by breaking it into three questions: What is poverty? What is rural? What An article in the Summer 1980 issue of Focus, On Not is persistent? By poverty, the members of the Task Force Reaching the Rural Poor: Urban Bias in Poverty Policy, usually mean the official U.S. poverty line-the maximum stated that researchers know astonishingly little about the amount of income a family of a given size can receive in a economic and social aspects of rural life. Thirteen years calendar year in order to be considered poor-which, in later, this may still be the case. One crude indication is the 1992, was $14,343 for a four-person family.6 By rural, they small number of articles on the rural poor listed in the Social mean counties classified by the U.S. Census Bureau as non- Sciences Index, a major, annual bibliography of published metropolitan; generally speaking, these are counties in material in the social sciences. Over the last 11 years, only which the largest city contains less than 50,000 people and 21 articles have been listed under the heading Rural Poor: the inhabitants do not commute to an urban center. The Task United States; this compares with a listing of 26 different Force uses rural and nonmetropolitan interchangeably, pieces on urban poverty and the underclass in the United as does this article. (Urban and metropolitan are used States in 1991-92 alone.2 Apparently, when researchers-or interc