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Rural Poverty Highlighted in Federal Report
Washington AP Sixteen million of the nation s 35 million families in poverty live in rural areas the Agriculture Department says poverty defined at net incomes 3000 or less including value of food and housing costs. The report pins rural poverty to Appalachia Georgia to Texas and Oklahoma and beyond noting farmers make up about one third of rural poor. Programs listed exceed 2 billion in 1963 including food stamps surplus food school lunches low income loans forest work projects and soil water conservation payments. these will continue under the Johnson poverty program with some on an expanded basis.
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