361 Pages
by
Routledge
361 Pages
by
Routledge
361 Pages
by
Routledge
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Crisis in rural America is by now an all too familiar complaint, yet the problems presented by changing demographics, economic decline, and increasing poverty persist. They have not vanished with a new administration. However, with a new farm bill in the offing, now is the time for a fresh initiative to assess the difficulties facing nonurban America and to offer positive solutions. Rural... Read more
Foreword -- Critical Times for Rural America: The Challenge for Rural Policy in the 1990s -- Rural America and the Industrial Policy Debate -- Financing Rural Businesses -- Rural Banking -- Small Businesses -- Issues Facing Agricultural Policy -- Agricultural Labor -- The Rural Poor: The Past As Prologue -- Work and Poverty in Rural America -- Meeting Rural Family Needs -- The Aged in Rural America -- Health Care in Rural America -- Rural Education -- American Indian Development Policies -- The Doubly Jeopardized: Nonmetropolitan Blacks and Mexicans -- Capacity Building and Rural Government Adaptation to Population Change -- Rural Transportation -- Family Planning and Fertility in International Context -- Water Quality and Agriculture -- Soil Conservation -- Farmland Tenure Policy -- Forest Resource Policy -- The Waste Management Problem -- Telematics and Rural Development -- Rethinking Biotechnology Policy -- International Development -- A Rural Policy Agenda for the 1990s
Biography
Cornelia B. Flora, James A. Christenson
