Ridge Resources
- Could Behavioral Economics Help Improve Diet Quality for Nutrition Assistance Program Participants?(USDA)
- Ecological Predictors and Developmental Outcomes of Persistent Childhood Overweight
- ERS Series on Food Stamps (USDA)
- Food Assistance and Nutrition Research Program Database (USDA)
- Informing Food and Nutrition Assistance Policy (USDA Economic Research Service)
- Reaching Those in Need: State Food Stamp Participation in 2005 - October 2007 (USDA)
- What Factors Account for State-to-State Differences in Food Security? (USDA)
Disaster Response Resources
- Creating your "to go" box
- Center for Disease Control's Disaster Preparation Home Page
- Dealing with the Threat of Asbestos Exposure in a Natural Disaster
- Disaster Relief: Preparing your Evacuation "to go" Box
- Disaster Relief:
Preparing Food during a Power Failure
- Hurricane Katrina and Asbestos Overview
- Preventing Dehydration
- Preparing for the Future: Evacuation Pre-Registration
- Storm Preparations
- USDA Consumer Alert: Keeping Food Safe During an Emergency
Upward Communities Resources
- America’s Health Starts with Healthy Children: How Do States Compare?- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Commission to Build a Healthier America
- America’s Youngest Outcasts: State Report Card on Child Homelessness - The National Center on Family Homelessness
- Appalachian Regional Commission
- Rural Poverty - Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity
- Still Working Hard, Still Falling Short - Brandon Roberts and Deborah Povich
- The Louisiana Poverty Initiative - Louisiana State University
Others
SRDC Resources
- Mid South Delta Data Library
- A Look at the Mid South Delta Region: A Glimpse of Its Assets, Socioeconomic Complexion, and Emerging Opportunities
Other Resources
- All Our Children? The Health and Education of Children of Immigrants (Foundation for Child Development)
- A New Majority: Low Income Students in the South’s Public Schools, Southern Education Foundation
- Building Disaster-Resilient Families, Communities, and Businesses (Journal of Extension)
- Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP)
- Characteristics of Low-Income Households With Very Low Food Security: An Analysis of the USDA GPRA Food Security Indicator
- Closing the Mental Health Gap: Eliminating Disparities in Treatment for Latinos
- Disability Is an Important Risk Factor for Food Insecurity (USDA Economic Research Service)
- EDEN: The Environmental Disaster Education Network
- Florida Planning Toolbox (Florida Dept of Community Affairs)
- From Poverty to Prosperity: A National Strategy to Cut Poverty in Half. Report and Recommendations of the Center for American Progress Task Force on Poverty, April 2007.
- Helping Disconnected Single Mothers
- Louisiana’s Rural Poverty
- PATHWAYS: A magazine on poverty, inequality, and social policy (Winter 2008)
- Rural America at a Glance (USDA Economic Research Service)
- Rural Employment at a Glance (USDA Economic Research Service)
- Seizing the Moment: State Governments and The New Commitment to Reduce poverty in America. A Joint Report from CLASP and Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity, April 2008.
- Small Towns, Big Ideas: Case Studies in Small Town Community Economic Development.
