Despite much-higher poverty rates, rural Oregonians use less public assistance

Wednesday, March 31, 2010 - 14:21 in Health & Medicine

Despite high levels of poverty and unemployment rates that are nearly double that of their urban counterparts, working families in rural Oregon tend to make less use of public assistance, especially childcare subsidies, according to researchers with Oregon State University's Family Policy Program.

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