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McKenna, Francis E. – Rural Development Perspectives, 1985
Reports results of a 1982 survey of suburban and rural local governments in Maryland, which showed that cable television in rural areas is generally inferior to that in the suburbs, providing less revenue for local governments and poorer services. Advises local officials how to improve their current cable arrangements. (JHZ)
Descriptors: Cable Television, Community Services, Community Surveys, Federal Legislation
Miner, Edwin J.; Jacobsen, Mike – Human Services in the Rural Environment, 1990
Discusses using social-work educational methods to organize the New York Rural Human Services Coalition, when public policy is increasingly urban oriented. Describes historical framework and state institutional structure of services. Describes organization to secure rural perspectives in human-services delivery. Describes community organization…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Community Action, Community Services, Human Services
Download full textEconomic Research Service (USDA), Washington, DC. Economic Development Div. – 1977
Elements essential to an adequate framework for rural development in the U.S. are a national growth and development policy which includes a rural development strategy and definition of common problems and programmatic actions required to deal with them. Many past federal rural development programs (lacking a federal rural policy focus) have failed…
Descriptors: Community Services, Databases, Economic Opportunities, Federal Programs
Rural Development Service (USDA), Washington, DC. – 1972
In response to Section 901(e) of the Agricultural Act of 1970, this third annual report on the availability of government and government assisted services to rural areas presents developments pertinent to the objectives of the Rural Development Act of 1972. Presented via narrative and tabular data, emphasis is on the following: (1) net rural to…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Agriculture, Annual Reports, Capital Outlay (for Fixed Assets)
Deavers, Kenneth L.; Brown, David L. – 1979
Emphasizing developmental problems caused by the rapid population and employment growth in rural America during the 1970's, this document describes social, economic, and governmental trends in rural America and suggests some federal policy choices that might be made in support of rural development. Problem areas and policy suggestions are…
Descriptors: Community Services, Economic Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Employment Patterns
Voth, Donald E., Comp.; And Others – 1977
The result of extensive research by the Southern Rural Development Center Functional Network on Citizen Participation in Rural Development, this bibliography contains 2,310 citations on citizen participation, 530 of which carry an annotation or abstract. Materials come from computerized information services, published bibliographies, and books or…
Descriptors: Administration, Annotated Bibliographies, Bibliographies, Books
