Rural Area Revitalization Act of 1987 and the Rural Development Reorganization Act of 1987: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, and Rural Development of the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives, One Hundredth Congress, First Session, on H.R. 1800 and H.R. 2026, May 19, 1987 |
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agencies agricultural cooperatives appropriate Banks for Cooperatives Bill Heffernan block grant capital Career Options Chairman Coleman committee COMMUNICATING FOR AGRICULTURE community development CONGRESS THE LIBRARY counseling counties create crisis Department of Agriculture diversification efforts employment Extension Service Farmers Home Administration Federal Government Federal programs financing Gibson County going grant program improve income individuals industries Jack Cassidy job training JONES of Tennessee leaders legislation LIBRARY OF CONGRESS ment mental health million Missouri Farm Families MYERS Nebraska operation opportunity Palk participants percent problems RDLF revitalization rural America rural areas rural communities Rural Development Act Rural Development Administration rural development initiative rural development programs rural economic development rural economy rural electric cooperatives rural families rural Illinois Secretary sector small businesses SMALL COMMUNITIES social stress subcommittee Task Force technical assistance Thank tion University of Missouri urban USDA workshop
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Page 189 - Chamber's members are small business firms with fewer than 100 employees, 57 percent with fewer than 10 employees. Yet, virtually all of the nation's largest companies are also active members. We are particularly cognizant of the problems of smaller businesses, as well as issues facing the business community at large. Besides representing a cross section of the American business community in terms of number of employees, the Chamber represents a wide management spectrum by type of business and location....
Page 189 - American Chambers of Commerce abroad, an increasing number of members are engaged in the export and import of both goods and services and have ongoing investment activities. The Chamber favors strengthened international competitiveness and opposes artificial US and foreign barriers to international business. Positions on national issues are developed by a cross-section of Chamber members serving on committees, subcommittees, and task forces. Currently, some 1,800 business people participate in this...
Page 83 - For example, hundreds of co-ops are making use of a "how to" manual on economic development compiled and disseminated by the NRECA staff. The manual is designed to provide community leaders with information on matters such as promoting job creation from existing local business and industry, attracting new employers to the community, improving a community's potential as a location for economic investment, and preparing an economic development plan. These are but a few of the programs rural electric...
Page 147 - We are living in the time of the parenthesis, the time between eras. It is as though we have bracketed off the present from both the past and the future, for we are neither here nor there. We have not quite left behind the either/or America of the past — centralized, industrialized and economically self-contained . . . But we have not embraced the future either. We have done the human thing: we are clinging to the known past in fear of the unknown future...
Page 189 - ... services and have ongoing investment activities. The Chamber favors strengthened international competitiveness and opposes artificial US and foreign barriers to international business. Positions on national issues are developed by a cross-section of Chamber members serving on committees, subcommittees, and task forces Currently, some 1,800 business people participate in this process. STATEMENT OF WILLIAM J.
Page 18 - Act of 1933 to provide a permanent and dependable source of specialized credit for cooperative associations engaged in marketing farm products, purchasing farm supplies, and furnishing farm business services.
Page 246 - United States Code, is 7 amended by adding at the end thereof the following new 8 sections : 9 . "DEFINITIONS 10 "SEC. 3315. For purposes of section 3316 through sec11 tion 3324— 2 1 "(1) the term 'Federal office...
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Page 232 - ... 7 ACCESS TO KECOKDS 8 SEC. 403. Section 5a(3) of the Interstate Commerce 9 Act (49 USC 5b(3) ) is amended by adding at the end 10 thereof the following new sentence...