Introduction : as the dust settles : welfare reform and rural America / Approaching the limit : early national lessons from welfare reform / Rural labor markets in an era of welfare reform / Rural America in transition : poverty and welfare at the turn of the twenty-first century / Reducing food stamp and welfare caseloads in the South : are rural areas less likely to succeed than urban centers? / Seasonal employment dynamics and welfare use in agricultural and rural California counties / Location and the low-income experience : analyses of program dynamics in the Iowa family investment program / Small towns and welfare reform : Iowa case studies of families and communities / Where all the counties are above average : human service agency directors' perspectives on welfare reform / The impact of welfare policy on the employment of single mothers living in rural and urban areas / Welfare reform in rural Minnesota : experimental findings from the Minnesota family investment program / Will attainable jobs be available for TANF recipients in local labor markets? Evidence from Mississippi on prospects for "job-skill matching" of TANF adults / Whose job is it? Employers' views on welfare reform / The short-term impacts of welfare reform in persistently poor rural areas / Food stamps in rural America : special issues and common themes / The decline in food stamp use by rural low-income households : less need or less access? / Lessons learned : welfare reform and food assistance in rural America