Rural Development (Paperback)

In the post-World War II era, widespread rural poverty, most notably among farmers, dominated rural policy concerns. The Eisenhower Administration's Undersecretary for Agriculture, True D. Morse, began a rural development program in 1955 to assist low-income farmers. Because agriculture was the major economic activity in many rural areas of the time, a focus on farms and farm households became de facto rural policy. The war on poverty during the 1960s continued the focus on rural poverty as a central policy issue. When agriculture began to decline as rural America's dominant economic activity, policy attention shifted to rural revitalisation. The 1980s farm financial crisis and economic dislocation in rural America brought the importance of rural structural change to the forefront of policy concerns. The further decline of farming to less than 8% of rural employment and the loss of many manufacturing jobs during the past decade have highlighted the growing gap between many rural areas and the Nation's urban/suburban areas. While no overarching framework guides rural policy at the federal level, adequate housing, employment creation and business retention, human capital concerns, poverty issues, medical care, and infrastructure development remain key foci of federal rural policy.

General

Imprint:	nova science publishers
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	September 2007
First published:	2007
Editors:	Tadlock Cowan • Bruce E. Foote
Dimensions:	140 x 215 x 11mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	157
ISBN-13:	978-1-60021-161-4
Categories:	Books > Professional & Technical > Agriculture & farming > General
LSN:	1-60021-161-5
Barcode:	9781600211614

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