Reauthorization Issues Related to the Economic Development Administration (EDA) and the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC): Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Economic Stabilization of the Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, First Session, July 23, 1991, Volume 4

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Page 70 - Subcommittee continue to fund the Economic Development Administration. EDA was created in response to patterns of economic distress which continue to persist in many rural regions today. EDA provides vital funds to small cities and rural communities working with the private sector to maintain and create new jobs. We ask that you to join us in urging the Bush administration to reinvigorate the Economic Development Administration. We appreciate the support of this Subcommittee and the entire Congress,...
Page 134 - The remoteness and isolation of the region, lying directly adjacent to the greatest concentrations of people and wealth in the country, is the very basis of the Appalachian lag. Its penetration by an adequate transportation network is the first requisite of its full participation in Industrial America.
Page 89 - HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SUBCOMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC STABILIZATION OF THE COMMITTEE ON BANKING, FINANCE AND URBAN AFFAIRS, Washington, DC The subcommittee met at 9 :35 am in room 2128 of the Rayburn House Office Building, Hon.
Page 104 - Davis, before the Subcommittee on Economic Stabilization, Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs, US House of Representatives, March 3, 1981.
Page 55 - ... ECONOMIC STABILIZATION THOMAS R. CARPER, Delaware, Chairman JOHN J. LAFALCE, New York MARY ROSE OAKAR, Ohio BRUCE F. VENTO, Minnesota PAUL E. KANJORSKI, Pennsylvania ELIZABETH J. PATTERSON, South Carolina PETER HOAGLAND, Nebraska CHARLES J. LUKEN, Ohio JAMES P. MORAN, JR., Virginia THOMAS J.
Page 32 - At the present time, if it is all right with you, Mr. Chairman, I would like to refer to the slides and make my statement a part of the record.
Page 67 - ... lives in rural areas, these areas have only 20 percent of the nation's jobs. In 1987, rural unemployment reached 7.9 percent, a full two percentage points higher than the national average. A struggling economy and a poor quality of life are often interrelated, and rural residents continue to suffer. While 20 percent of the urban population lives in poverty, 34 percent of all rural people are poverty stricken. Infant mortality is up to one third higher in rural areas than the national average....
Page 2 - I also want to thank our witnesses for appearing before us today and I look forward to hearing...
Page 69 - Title IX Economic Adjustment program. Each year, EDA provides funding for sudden and severe economic dislocation (SSED) and for long-term economic deterioration (LTED). In the past, EDA has provided about half of its Title IX appropriation for Revolving Loan Funds.
Page 117 - The educational deficiencies the regional development program was able to address were in vocational and technical education. Congress placed at the Appalachian Regional Commission's disposal well over $525 million to construct new vocational and technical school facilities and to help fund training programs within them. Through the regional commission, the governors and the federal representative voted in 1965 not to release funds for vocational and technical education unless the curriculum in any...