Farmworkers in Rural America, 1971-1972, Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Migratory Labor....

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Page 3526 - LL Sammet, and RG Bressler. 1956. Economic Efficiency in Plant Operations With Special Reference to the Marketing of California Pears . Calif.
Page 3729 - ... assessor, relating to the appraisal and the assessment of his property, except information and records which also relate to the property or business affairs of a person other than the assessee...
Page 3724 - Report of the National Advisory Commission on Food and Fiber, Food and Fiber for the Future, p.
Page 3524 - Comparative Economies of Different Types of Cottonseed Oil Mills and Their Effects on Oil Supplies, Prices, and Returns to Growers.
Page 3419 - Will increased public regulation hamper or help farmers in their efforts to produce food and fiber? How does the balance between public and private prerogative in resource use influence who will control the agriculture of tomorrow? What types of public policy influence control of agricultural resources? These questions and their policy implications are examined in this chapter. Laws Affecting Land Ownership Wide distribution of ownership rights has long been favored as a matter of deliberate policy...
Page 3554 - In contrast to the urban poor, the rural poor, notably the white, are not well organized, and have few spokesmen for bringing the Nation's attention to their problems. The more vocal and better organized urban poor gain most of the benefits of current antipoverty programs. Until the past few years, the Nation's major social welfare and labor legislation largely bypassed rural Americans, especially farmers and farmworkers. Farm people were excluded from the Social Security...
Page 3554 - ... in the United States today, in what is the richest nation in history, close to 14 million rural Americans are poor, and a high proportion of them are destitute. By their poverty they are deprived of freedom to share in our economic abundance. We can no longer permit public policy to ignore the rural poor. For if we do, we shall see a continuing movement of rural people to our central cities. As the summer of 1967 illustrated, the slums and ghettos of the city breed hatred and violence, which...
Page 3554 - ... as local facilities and services continue to decline, the chances for redevelopment diminish. Figures on the age of heads of households in rural poverty areas underline the hopelessness of the situation. In 1965, among low income families in these areas, one of every four heads of household was 65 years of age, or older. Contrast this with rural areas with adequate incomes. There, only about 7 percent of the heads of households were as old as 65. Nor is the picture brighter for heads of households...
Page 3554 - The community in rural poverty areas has all but disappeared as an effective institution. In the past the rural community performed the services needed by farmers and other rural people. Technological progress brought sharp declines in the manpower needs of agriculture, forestry, fisheries, and mining. Other industries have not replaced the jobs lost, and they have supplied too few jobs for the young entries in the labor market. Larger towns and cities have taken over many of the economic and social...
Page 3554 - ... migration. In the Deep South, for example, a mass migration of Negroes, mainly to northern industrial centers, has helped reduce southern rural poverty at the expense of cities. At the same time, high income counties, with median family incomes of $7,500 or more in 1959, increased through migration by about 200,000 people. Americans are well-known for their geographic and social mobility, and the freedom to be mobile is perhaps one of our most cherished values.

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