Farmworkers in Rural America, 1971-1972: Hearings, Ninety-second Congress, First and Second Session ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1972 |
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1963 TAX MESSAGE 1st Sess 91st Cong accounting rules acreage acres adjusted gross income agricultural American amount areas assets average basis beet benefit Bracero Program Bureau of Reclamation BuRec California cash Commission Committee Congress corporation costs cotton crops deferral effect employment excess deductions account excess land expenses families farm income farm labor farm loss farm recapture property farmers farming operation federal gross income growers harvest hobby loss Ibid increase industry inventory investment irrigation Kern County landowners livestock Metcalf Bill method migration million negative income tax nonfarm income ordinary income owner percent pickers production programs provision Ranch range land result Revenue rural poor rural poverty sales proceeds San Luis Obispo seasonal Senate subsidy Task Force tax rate TAX REFORM 1969 taxable taxpayer TEXAS LAW REVIEW tion transfers Treas Treasury workers
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Page 3732 - No right to the use of water for land in private ownership shall be sold for a tract exceeding 160 acres to any one landowner, and no such sale shall be made to any landowner unless he be an actual bona fide resident on such land, or occupant thereof residing in the neighborhood of said land, and no such right shall permanently attach until all payments therefor are made.
Page 3754 - Report of the National Advisory Commission on Food and Fiber, Food and Fiber for the Future, p.
Page 3761 - Forest land which is producing or is capable of producing crops of industrial wood and not withdrawn from timber utilization by statute or administrative regulation.
Page 3581 - ... ranching operations." The sacrifice in accounting accuracy under the cash method represents an historical concession by the Secretary and the Commissioner to provide a unitary and expedient bookkeeping system for farmers and ranchers in need of a simplified accounting procedure.
Page 3564 - Unemployment and underemployment are major problems in rural America. The rate of unemployment nationally is about 4 percent. The rate in rural areas averages about 18 percent. Among farmworkers, a recent study discovered that underemployment runs as high as 37 percent. The rural poor have gone, and now go, to poor schools. One result is that more than 3 million rural adults are classified as illiterates. In both educational facilities and opportunities, the rural poor have been shortchanged. Most...
Page 3563 - Rural poverty is so widespread, and so acute, as to be a national disgrace, and its consequences have swept into our cities, violently. The urban riots during 1967 had their roots, in considerable part, in rural poverty.
Page 3589 - ... rentals or other payments required to be made as a condition to the continued use or possession for purposes of the trade or business, of property to which the taxpayer has not taken or is not taking title or in which he has no equity...
Page 3576 - 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 3551 - POWER AND LAND IN CALIFORNIA The Ralph Nader Task Force Report on Land Use in the State of California Volume l ROBERT C.
Page 3571 - We do not want to quibble over words, but 'malnutrition' is not quite what we found; the boys and girls we saw were hungry — weak, in pain, sick, their lives being shortened; they are, in fact, visibly and predictably losing their health, their energy, and their spirits.