Some Persistently Low-Income Counties Make Advances

Robert A. Hoppe

Rural America/ Rural Development Perspectives, 1985, vol. 01, issue 2

Abstract: Some of the poorest counties in the Nation in the 1950s and 1960s improved their incomes in the 1970's. They did that primarily through nonfarm industries, especially services and manufacturing. Mining also provided a large share of the growth in some of the counties with the largest income improvements. Farming helped some counties, but farm income has been too erratic recently to be reliable. Nothing guarantees a county's escape from low income; some of those that escaped earlier in the decade returned to low-income status by 1979.

Keywords: Food Security and Poverty; Labor and Human Capital (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1985
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.310262

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