Issue Information – TOC

• Date: 01 May 2016
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/ajes.12121
• Published date: 01 May 2016

Vol. 75 May 2016 No. 3

Editor’s Introduction: Fighting for Rural America: Overcoming

the Contempt for Small Places . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 569

Who’s Afraid of Rural Poverty? The Story Behind

America’s Invisible Poor—Lauren Gurley . . .... ........... 589

A Different Path for Rural America—John Crabtree . ........... 605

Agricultural Subsidies and Farm Consolidation—Traci Bruckner . . . 623

New Life for the Octopus: How Voting Rules Sustain the

Power of California’s Big Landowners—Mason Gaffney

and Merrill Goodall . .... ........................... 649

Whose Water Is It?—Hilary A. B. Lambert................... 681

Challenges for Social-Change Organizing in Rural Areas—

Maura Stephens................................... 721

The Middle Way: The National Catholic Rural Life Conference

and Rural Issues in the 20

th

and 21

st

Centuries—

David S. Bov

ee ................................... 762

The Center for Rural Affairs: The First 20 Years—Don Ralston

and Marty Strange . . ............................... 809

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