| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance - 1969 - 526 pages
...Presidential Commission on Rural Poverty : "There are 14 million Americans in rural poverty today. It is so widespread, and so acute, as to be a national...consequences have swept into our cities, violently. The total number of rural poor would be even larger than 14 million had not so many of them moved to the... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Finance - 1969 - 236 pages
...Presidential Commission on Rural Poverty : "There are 14 million Americans in rural poverty today. It is so widespread, and so acute, as to be a national...consequences have swept into our cities, violently. The total number of rural poor would be even larger than 14 million had not so many of them moved to the... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance - 1969 - 234 pages
...Presidential Commission on Rural Poverty : "There are 14 million Americans in rural poverty today. It is so widespread, and so acute, as to be a national...consequences have swept into our cities, violently. The total number of rural poor would be even larger than 14 million had not so many of them moved to the... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency - 1969 - 1054 pages
...then governor of Kentucky. The commission reported that 14 million Americans live in rural poverty "so widespread and so acute as to be a national disgrace,...swept into our cities, violently. The urban riots had their roots, in considerable part, in rural poverty." The commission said the number of rural poor... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare - 1972 - 1200 pages
...providing the Commission with data and with information on current programs was particularly valuable. viii Summary This report is about a problem which many...cities, violently. The urban riots during 1967 had their root*, in considerable part, in rural poverty. A high proportion of the people crowded into city slums... | |
| Richard J. Margolis - 1980 - 76 pages
...Commission on Rural Poverty characterized rural Americans as "The People Left Behind," noting that "Rural poverty is so widespread, and so acute, as to be a national disgrace. . . ." Today, despite those goahead population figures, many rural Americans remain "left behind."... | |
| James Benjamin Stewart, Joyce E. Allen-Smith - 1995 - 216 pages
...plight of the black rural poor. In 1967, the US National Advisory Commission on Rural Poverty reported, "Rural poverty is so widespread, and so acute, as to be a national disgrace."43 This statement still holds true as we approach the twenty-first century and prospects... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs - 1969 - 1838 pages
...Payne Haddy M. Reyes Cynthia A. Reynolds Joan Rohrlich Shirley M. Walker H. Gail Wall INTRODUCTION "The urban riots during 1967 had their roots, in considerable...proportion of the people crowded into city slums today саше there from rural slums. This fact alone makes clear how large a stake the people of this nation... | |
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