Effect of Federal Programs on Rural America: Hearings, Ninetieth Congress, First Session |
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... building a drainage ditch . Slide : Men , trucks , dragline . - Here we see a large weir under con- struction . Cost ... build this small one - bedroom home . The first time they had ever lived in a house with inside water and bath ...
... building a drainage ditch . Slide : Men , trucks , dragline . - Here we see a large weir under con- struction . Cost ... build this small one - bedroom home . The first time they had ever lived in a house with inside water and bath ...
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... build or modernize homes . Does not include housng under rural renewal program . Slide : Young boy on bed . - Orphaned when his parents were killed last year , this 3 - year - old boy lives with his grandparents . Total family income is ...
... build or modernize homes . Does not include housng under rural renewal program . Slide : Young boy on bed . - Orphaned when his parents were killed last year , this 3 - year - old boy lives with his grandparents . Total family income is ...
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... building the economy which provides participation , opportunity , initiative and all the rest . So , these are , I think ... build the commercial and industrial complexes that were a key factor in the development of our powerful national ...
... building the economy which provides participation , opportunity , initiative and all the rest . So , these are , I think ... build the commercial and industrial complexes that were a key factor in the development of our powerful national ...
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... importance of rural development . The fact that this subcommittee is holding these hearings is clear evidence of this . Mr. Chairman , these examples of efforts to build on 14 EFFECT OF FEDERAL PROGRAMS ON RURAL AMERICA.
... importance of rural development . The fact that this subcommittee is holding these hearings is clear evidence of this . Mr. Chairman , these examples of efforts to build on 14 EFFECT OF FEDERAL PROGRAMS ON RURAL AMERICA.
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... build on successes al- ready achieved and to deal with some of the problems I have outlined are helping the Nation along on the road to victory in the war on pov- erty , to a revitalized countryside , and to restoration of urban - rural ...
... build on successes al- ready achieved and to deal with some of the problems I have outlined are helping the Nation along on the road to victory in the war on pov- erty , to a revitalized countryside , and to restoration of urban - rural ...
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Page 803 - Whenever there is in any country, uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right.
Page 323 - State, services for promoting the health of mothers and children, especially in rural areas and in areas suffering from severe economic distress, . . . the sum of $11,000,000.
Page 500 - 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 them —which is exactly what "starvation
Page 393 - Nation's communities; to assist the President in achieving maximum coordination of the various Federal activities which have a major effect upon urban community, suburban, or metropolitan development; to encourage the solution of problems of housing, urban development, and mass transportation through State, county, town, village, or other local and private action...
Page 499 - In child after child we saw : evidence of vitamin and mineral deficiencies ; serious, untreated skin infections and ulcerations; eye and ear diseases, also unattended bone diseases secondary to poor food intake ; the prevalence of bacterial and parasitic disease, as well as severe anemia, with resulting loss of energy and ability to live a normally active life; diseases of the heart and...
Page 325 - Act (old-age assistance, aid to families with dependent children, aid to the blind, aid to the permanently and totally disabled), and for whom such assistance is not available from established welfare agencies or through tribal resources.
Page 500 - We saw children fed communally — that is by neighbors who give scraps of food to children whose own parents have nothing to give them. Not onlr are these children receiving no food from the government, they are also getting no medical attention whatsoever. They are out of sight and ignored. They are living under such primitive conditions that we found it hard to believe we were examining American children of the twentieth century.
Page 737 - Proud swells the tide with loads of freighted ore, And shouting Folly hails them from her shore ; Hoards e'en beyond the miser's wish abound, And rich men flock from all the world around.
Page 150 - At school, they are the last to be educated. At work, they are the last to be hired and the first to be fired.
Page 10 - In comparison, programs directed specifically at economic development under the Appalachian Regional Development Act, the Public Works and Economic Development Act, and the Economic Opportunity Act have been relatively ineffective.