Increasing the Options. A Report of the Task Force on Southern Rural Development, Southern Regional Council.

Institution	Southern Regional Council, Atlanta, GA.
Titel	Increasing the Options. A Report of the Task Force on Southern Rural Development, Southern Regional Council.
Quelle	(1977), (84 Seiten)Verfügbarkeit
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Agricultural Trends; Blacks; Community Development; Credit (Finance); Health Services; Housing; Humanization; Income; Industrialization; Labor Force; Nutrition; Politics; Population Trends; Poverty; Quality of Life; Rural Areas; Rural Development; Rural Economics; Rural Education; Rural Farm Residents; Rural Nonfarm Residents; Socioeconomic Influences; Unions + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Black person; Schwarzer; Community; Development; Entwicklung; Credit; Kredit; Health service; Gesundheitsdienst; Gesundheitswesen; Unterkunft; Humanisierung; Einkommen; Industrialisation; Industrialisierung; Labour force; Arbeitskraft; Erwerbsbevölkerung; Ernährung; Politik; Bevölkerungsprognose; Armut; Lebensqualität; Rural area; Ländlicher Raum; Rural environment; Ländliches Milieu; Ländliche Erwachsenenbildung; Sozioökonomischer Faktor
Abstract	Monumental changes have occurred in the South, i.e., the loss of many farm and nonfarm residents to urban areas, farms becoming larger and more mechanized, the growth of manufacturing employment, and the narrowing of income gaps between rural and urban areas, and between the South and the non-South. Political and social changes have accompanied these economic changes. Many of the institutions that characterized the traditional South such as sharecropping, one-party politics, and demogogic preoccupation with race have disappeared or are no longer important. Yet, despite these changes, the rural South lags behind urban areas, and rural areas outside the South, in many dimensions of human resource development. Large commercial farmers have been the main beneficiaries of technological changes and agricultural policies. Blacks have not shared proportionately in the growth of jobs. Because of the uneveness of economic progress, too many people in the rural South are poor, have inferior educations, suffer from poor health, nutrition, housing, and inadequate health care. Therefore the Task Force has made various recommendations dealing with a wide range of issues affecting human resource development in the rural South. They include reform in the financing of education, in state and local taxes, and in health delivery systems; strengthening the political effectiveness of low income people and minorities; strengthening union membership; restructuring the South's income maintenance system; and improvements in training and employment, job creation, and the rural credit system. (NQ)
Anmerkungen	Southern Regional Council, 75 Marietta Street, Atlanta, Georgia 30303 ($5.00 single copies; $4.00 in quantities of 10 or more)
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