Farmworkers in Rural America, 1971-1972: Hearings, Ninety-second Congress, First and Second Session ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1972 - Agricultural laborers |
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... ( table 1 ) . Some 30 percent of our total population live in rural areas , but 40 percent of the nation's poor live there . Within this total there are nearly 3 million families , plus a million unattached persons . Contrary to popular ...
... ( table 1 ) . Some 30 percent of our total population live in rural areas , but 40 percent of the nation's poor live there . Within this total there are nearly 3 million families , plus a million unattached persons . Contrary to popular ...
Page 3573
... table 5 . " This is a rough approximation , predicated on the fact that about 40 percent of the poor are rural . ' HELEN H. LAMALE . POVERTY : THE WORD AND THE REAL- ITY . Monthly Labor Review , July 1965 , pp . 822-827 . While it is ...
... table 5 . " This is a rough approximation , predicated on the fact that about 40 percent of the poor are rural . ' HELEN H. LAMALE . POVERTY : THE WORD AND THE REAL- ITY . Monthly Labor Review , July 1965 , pp . 822-827 . While it is ...
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... reaction of a people living without hope , without a future . Table 1 is based on the Commission's estimates . De- tails are given in a technical report to be published . We do not know how many people in rural America 8 3574.
... reaction of a people living without hope , without a future . Table 1 is based on the Commission's estimates . De- tails are given in a technical report to be published . We do not know how many people in rural America 8 3574.
Page 3647
... Tables 1 and 3 ) . 93 U.S. TREASURY DEPARTMENT ( unpublished tabulation of statistics on income ) . 94 H.R. REP . No. 91-413 ... Table 3 to the General Explanation of the Treasury's Farm Proposal . TAX REFORM 1969 , at 5430. The raw data ...
... Tables 1 and 3 ) . 93 U.S. TREASURY DEPARTMENT ( unpublished tabulation of statistics on income ) . 94 H.R. REP . No. 91-413 ... Table 3 to the General Explanation of the Treasury's Farm Proposal . TAX REFORM 1969 , at 5430. The raw data ...
Page 3687
... , State University of New York A.B. , Bryn Mawr ; J.D. University of Chicago Law School TEDDI FINE SHERRY LEIBOWITZ CONNIE JO SMITH TERI LOFTUS LYN SCHULTZ DAMMING THE WEST Table of Contents Foreword by Ralph Nader 3687.
... , State University of New York A.B. , Bryn Mawr ; J.D. University of Chicago Law School TEDDI FINE SHERRY LEIBOWITZ CONNIE JO SMITH TERI LOFTUS LYN SCHULTZ DAMMING THE WEST Table of Contents Foreword by Ralph Nader 3687.
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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 3932 - This report must state that we found filth, squalor, an entire absence of sanitation, and a crowding of human beings 9-133 O - 73 - pt. 5B - 25 into totally inadequate tents or crude structures built. of boards, needs and anything that was .found at hand to give a pitiful semblance of a home at its worst.
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 3563 - The urban riots during 1967 had their roots, in considerable part, in rural poverty. A high proportion of the people crowded into city slums today came there from rural slums. This fact alone makes clear how large a stake the people of this nation have in an attack on rural poverty.
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 3564 - Commission questions the wisdom of massive public efforts to improve the lot of the poor in. our central cities without comparable efforts to meet the needs of the poor in rural America.
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 are being shortened : they are, in fact, visibly and predictably losing their health, their energy, their spirits. They are suffering from hunger and disease and directly or indirectly they are dying from...