January 20, 2017
Assistant Professors Mathieu Despard and Addie Weaver received a grant from Poverty Solutions for their project, “Poor, Invisible, and Left Behind: Understanding Financial Instability, Material Hardship, and the Availability and Use of Community Resources among Low-Income Rural Households.” This project aims to understand rural poverty and identify community-level strategies, as well as public private funding policies to promote economic mobility in rural America.