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Download full textGeneral Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Resources, Community, and Economic Development Div. – 1989
This report identifies those federal programs that are essentially rural and pursue economic development purposes. Using the 10 Beale population codes, 2,097 of the 3,096 U.S. counties, containing 16% of the U.S. population, were defined as rural (had urban populations of less than 20,000). The approximately 800 federal domestic assistance…
Descriptors: Agriculture, Economic Development, Federal Aid, Federal Programs
Stenberg, Peter L. – 2000
The revolution in telecommunications technology will be a driving force in the future economic growth of rural areas. Federal and state universal service policies requiring delivery of service to rural areas were major factors in how the telephone system evolved during the 20th century. In the 1990s, telephone penetration rates were similar for…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Economically Disadvantaged, Hispanic Americans, Internet
Johnson, Wanda B.; Pearson, Curtis W. D. – 1983
Re-examination of a 16-county area of southern Alabama last studied in 1968 found it still economically depressed, especially for blacks. Black unemployment remains two to three times higher and black poverty rates up to five times higher than those of whites. Blacks are generally employed in the lowest paying jobs. Both black median family income…
Descriptors: Black Employment, Blacks, Economic Development, Elementary Secondary Education
Myers, Paul R.; And Others – 1978
When historic (1940-70) and recent (1970-74) trends in population, income, and employment for the Northern Great Plains coal region are compared with that for the entire U.S. and all U.S. nonmetro counties, data reveal a minimal population increase from 1940 to 1970, a period of declining agricultural employment and high outmigration rates. In…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, American Indians, Demography, Economic Development
Brown, David L.; O'Leary, Jeanne M. – 1979
Between 1960 and 1970 economic opportunity and progress for women in American non-metropolitan areas was mixed. While women in metropolitan areas were more likely to be labor force members than were non-metropolitan women, the difference in metropolitan and non-metropolitan labor force participation rates narrowed during the period. For women…
Descriptors: Blacks, Clerical Occupations, Demography, Economic Development
Hendler, Charles I.; Reid, J. Norman – 1980
The study described the patterns of government outlay to U.S. metropolitan and non-metropolitan areas for 86% of the $499 billion of federal outlays and loan guarantees made in fiscal 1978 to individual counties in the 50 states. Between metropolitan and non-metropolitan areas there were considerable variations in outlays to programs in seven…
Descriptors: Agriculture, Capital Outlay (for Fixed Assets), Comparative Analysis, Economic Development
Pickard, Jerome P.; And Others – 1979
With a total area of 197,116 square miles, the Appalachian Region has an uneven distribution of population, income, wealth and natural resources. The Region's 19.3 million people live in 397 counties and 5 independent cities in Virginia. Under 50% of the population live in metropolitan counties while only 25% live in rural counties. In 1975 the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Agriculture, American Indians
