Word: rural
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...poor has been catalogued in a sierra of statistics. Central to any understanding of the subject is the "poverty line," a sliding scale devised five years ago by Social Security Economist Mollie Orshansky. Her flexible income line rises for large urban families and recedes for those in rural areas, dipping as low as $1,180 a year for a single male on a farm, and soaring to $7,910 for a city family with eleven or more children. The level for an urban family of four?which is as close to a typical situation as can be found?...
Kennedy's strength appeared to be coming from all sections of the state, in the rural areas as well as in the cities. In the 77 counties that reported returns, he was leading in 66. In three key Negro districts in Omaha, Kennedy ran up 282 votes to McCarthy's 12. The Vote 50 per cent tabulated Kennedy 38,486 53% McCarthy 22,442 31% Humphrey 7,102 10% Johnson 4,089 6% Nixon 56,575 69% Reagan 18,826 23% Rockefeller...
...giving the Viet Cong key Cabinet posts "would be likely to follow the East European pattern of the simple takeover." He predicted that even with the V.C.'s relatively small popular following?he placed it at 15% to 25%?such a takeover would be almost inevitable. In many rural areas, the guerrilla is treated with great deference?or fear?and many peasants refer to him respectfully as ong bac ("Mr. Uncle...
...second radio address on the problems of the city and the Negro. Spelling out in detail the broad programs he had outlined the week before, he stressed the need for tax credits and other relatively inexpensive Government incentives to encourage industry to build in the slums and rural poverty areas. "The old ways have failed," he said. "The crisis of the old order is not the crisis of today...
...demands of the campaign include the creation of 2 million federal jobs for the nation's poor, expanded model cities and rent subsidy programs, the establishment of a guaranteed annual income for those unable to work, and immediate relief for hungry people in hundreds of rural counties...