Author: Fletcher Eugene Riggs

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Published: 1957

Total Pages: 56

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This study of the characteristics of high- and low-income counties in the upper Tennessee Valley supports the conclusions and general recommendations reached in other studies of low-income rural areas in the South. A decline in the number of people dependent on agriculture for a livelihood and an increase in the quantity of productive farm capital for those remaining in agriculture are necessary adjustments to raise farm-family income in low-income rural counties to a level more nearly approaching that of high-income counties.