One in three U.S. households has experienced material hardship. The inadequate provision of basic needs, including food, healthcare, and transportation, is more typical in households with children or persons of color, yet little is known about material hardship in rural spaces. The aim of this study is to describe the prevalence of material hardships in Iowa and examine the relationship between rurality, income, and material hardship. Using data from the 2016 State Innovation Model Statewide Consumer Survey, we use logistic regression to examine the association between rurality, income, and four forms of material hardship. Rural respondents incurred lower odds than non-rural respondents for all four hardship models. All four models indicated that lower income respondents incurred greater odds for having material hardship. Material hardship was reported across all groups, with rurality, income, race, and age as strong predictors of material hardship among our sample.

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中心地带的困难：农村、收入和物质困难之间的关联*


三分之一的美国家庭经历过物质困难。包括食品、医疗保健和交通在内的基本需求供应不足，在有儿童或有色人种的家庭中更为常见，但人们对农村地区的物质困难知之甚少。本研究的目的是描述爱荷华州物质困难的普遍情况，并研究农村、收入和物质困难之间的关系。使用 2016 年州创新模型全州消费者调查的数据，我们使用逻辑回归来研究农村性、收入和四种形式的物质困难之间的关联。对于所有四种困难模式，农村受访者的发生几率均低于非农村受访者。所有四个模型都表明，收入较低的受访者遭受物质困难的可能性更大。所有群体都报告了物质困难，其中农村地区、收入、种族和年龄是我们样本中物质困难的有力预测因素。