Industrial Location Policy: Hearings, Ninety-first Congress, Second Session ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1971 - 705 pages |
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Page 271 - The definition of an individual standard metropolitan statistical area involves two considerations : First, a city or cities of specified population to constitute the central city and to identify the county in which It is located as the central county ; and second, economic and social relationships with contiguous counties which are metropolitan in character, so that the periphery of the specific metropolitan area may be determined.
Page 272 - ... b. The number of nonagricultural workers employed In the county must equal at least 10...
Page 272 - A county is regarded as integrated with the county or counties containing the central cities of the area if either of the following criteria is met: a...
Page 149 - The availability of housing draws the lowest-income group until they so far exceed the opportunities of the area that the low standard of living, the frustration, and the crime rate counterbalance the housing availability. Until the pool of excess housing is reduced, little can be done to improve the economic condition of the city. A low-cost housing program alone moves exactly in the wrong direction. It draws more low-income people. It makes the area differentially more attractive to the poor who...
Page 47 - The bumper crop of estimates that show national income increasing faster than national resources raises a second and not unrelated puzzle. The income of the United States has been increasing at a much higher rate than the combined amount of land, man-hours worked, and the stock of reproducible capital used to produce the income. Moreover, the discrepancy between the two rates has become larger from one business cycle to the next during recent decades [5]. To call this discrepancy a measure of "resource...
Page 271 - At least 75% of the labor force of the county must be in the nonagricultural labor force. 4. In addition to criterion 3, the county must meet at least one of the following conditions: (a) It must have 50% or more of its population living in contiguous minor civil divisions...
Page 162 - A society with a high level of industrialization may be nonsustainable. It may be self-extinguishing if it exhausts the natural resources on which it depends. Or, if unending substitution for declining natural resources is possible, the international strife over "pollution and environmental rights" may pull the average worldwide standard of living back to the level of a century ago.
Page 439 - Wells advanced the proposition "that many of (the) railway-begotten "giant cities" (of 1900 would) reach their maximum in the coming century (and) in all probability they... are destined to such a process of dissection and diffusion as to amount almost to obliteration, so far, at least, as the blot on the map goes, within a measurable further space of years
Page 272 - The number of nonagricultural workers employed in the county must equal at least 10 percent of the number of nonagricultural workers employed in the county containing the largest city in the area, or the county must be the place of employment of 10,000 nonagricultural workers.
Page 4 - Finally, let's talk about such bodies as the Council of Economic Advisers and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve...