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Matthew M. Brooks @ruraldemography.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Ever wonder about what’s it like to grow up in rural America? So did we! @shelleydclark.bsky.social and I tackle two basic—but essential—questions in our new Journal of Marriage and Family article, just out today. Who do rural kids live with today? How likely are rural kids to grow up in poverty?

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UM Population Studies Center @um-psc.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Matt Brooks @ruraldemography.bsky.social points to unexpected changes in rural families that not only affect our understanding of who is poor in rural America but also how to address national child poverty. Join us for the next PSC Brown Bag live or on Zoom! psc.isr.umich.edu/events/zivin...

Unexpected Changes in Rural Families: Fewer Married Parents, Lower Child Poverty

Matt Brooks
Florida State University
Oct. 27, 2025
PSC Brown Bag Series 2025
Join us live or on Zoom
ISR (Thompson St.) Room 1430 | Mondays at noon

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Matthew M. Brooks @ruraldemography.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Wrote this for the conversation about immigrants in Florida, and whether the state is really experiencing an immigration crisis. And if it is, then what do we actually know about immigrants in the state.

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Rural Reconciliation Project @rural-reconcile.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Our latest digest shares the work of @ruraldemography.bsky.social‬, @jtommueller.bsky.social‬, Brian C. Thiede, and Daniel T. Lichter examining the underappreciated role of diversity in nonmetropolitan areas and identifying patterns underlying recent changes to rural demographics.

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Brooks et al.: Ethnoracial Diversity Across Nonmetropolitan America — The Rural Reconciliation Project

In Uneven Growth and Unexpected Drivers of Ethnoracial Diversity across Nonmetropolitan and Metropolitan America , Matthew M. Brooks (Sociology and Center for Demography and Population Health, Fl...

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Matthew M. Brooks @ruraldemography.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

A few days late, but just want to say how I love going to PAA!

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Matthew M. Brooks @ruraldemography.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

🚨🚨🚨 Hot off the press! Shelley Clark and I wrote an Op-Ed in the Washington Post that’s out this morning about declining Marriage rates in rural America (and the potentially “misaligned” policy implications that go along with it). Would love to hear your thoughts!

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Shelley Clark @shelleydclark.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

New Trump admin guidelines prioritize transportation spending and infrastructure for “communities with marriage and birth rates higher than the national average,” which many are reading as a shorthand for subsidizing white rural communities. The truth is complicated. tinyurl.com/DOTpolicy2025 1/

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Matthew M. Brooks @ruraldemography.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

We are now on our fourth day of snows days here. I did some thinking and I think that this might be more snow days than I got in undergrad and grad school combined. And it might be the same amount I got all through high school (in Minnesota)!

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