Rural U.S.A.: Persistence and ChangeThomas R. Ford |
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Page 64
... employment in extractive industries ( agriculture , forestry , fisheries , mining ) declined from 31.1 percent to 10.2 percent of the labor force , or by over 4 million jobs ; manufacturing employed almost a quarter of nonmetropolitan ...
... employment in extractive industries ( agriculture , forestry , fisheries , mining ) declined from 31.1 percent to 10.2 percent of the labor force , or by over 4 million jobs ; manufacturing employed almost a quarter of nonmetropolitan ...
Page 188
... Employment Opportunities . The ability to find and maintain employment is a major deterrent to poverty . When jobs become scarce there is generally an increase in poverty . The past 50 years have witnessed a drastic reduction in farm ...
... Employment Opportunities . The ability to find and maintain employment is a major deterrent to poverty . When jobs become scarce there is generally an increase in poverty . The past 50 years have witnessed a drastic reduction in farm ...
Page 194
... employment may drastically reduce rural poverty , it cer- tainly will not entirely disappear . Employment opportunities will not aid those unable and / or unwilling to take advantage of them . Some of the Commission's recommendations ...
... employment may drastically reduce rural poverty , it cer- tainly will not entirely disappear . Employment opportunities will not aid those unable and / or unwilling to take advantage of them . Some of the Commission's recommendations ...
Contents
Quality and Conflicts in Land | 19 |
People on the Land | 37 |
The Changing Character of the Nonmetropolitan | 55 |
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