Rural Conditions and Trends: Federal Programs Issue, Vol. 10, No. 1
Douglas E. Bowers and Rick Reeder, editors
Rural Conditions and Trends No. (RCAT-101)
July 1999
About this magazine
Federal assistance has increased significantly for highway and transit programs, and farmers are benefiting from emergency farm aid and new tax breaks. Meanwhile, Congress has overhauled the Federal training and public housing programs, giving State and local authorities more flexibility. Most other programs important for rural development are relatively unchanged. Rural areas will benefit, however, from 25 new rural Empowerment Zones and Enterprise Communities, and several other new general assistance initiatives. Areas of key regulatory policy changes include transportation, telecommunications, air pollution, land use and natural resources, and banking and finance.
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- Frontmatter (About RCaT, Contents), 32 kb
- Overview: Key Changes Involve Transportation, Emergency Farm Aid, Training, and Public Housing, 31 kb
- General Assistance: New Impetus for Several General Assistance Programs, 700 kb
- Infrastructure Assistance: Transportation Programs Receive Big Funding Increases, 941 kb
- Business Assistance: Microlending Is Latest Trend in Business Assistance, 349 kb
- Housing Assistance: Federal Public Housing Programs Are Overhauled, 969 kb
- Transportation Reauthorization: TEA-21 Authorizes Record Funding for Highways and Transit Through 2003, 675 kb
- Training and Vocational Education: Training and Vocational Education Programs Are Revised, 107 kb
- Emergency Agricultural Assistance: Legislation Boosts Farm Assistance to Highest Level Since 1993, 354 kb
- Tax Policy: Additional Farm Tax Relief Among New Tax Measures, 27 kb
- Regulatory Policy: Regulatory Policy Affects Rural Development in Many Areas, 97 kb
- Appendix A: Rural Share of Selected Programs, 18 kb
- Appendix B: Data Sources and Definitions, 33 kb
- Download entire issue, 4,309 kb.
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Updated date: July 1999
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