Abstract
Despite declines in national poverty measures during the 1990s, high rates of poverty have persisted in several pockets of rural America. The poverty rate exceeded 20% in 356 counties in each of the 1979, 1989, and 1999 censuses of population (Partridge and Rickman, 2005b). Almost 28% of people in completely rural counties were in persistent poverty (PP) counties (U.S. Department of Agriculture). The academic literature lists remoteness and the lack of economic scale as
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