European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 2, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Ii re Rafidy House would White leave if he could afford to i Ihrk about it Alt the Home tie whal s happening in Mississippi is not that much Diller enl from what s happening in Allol the Rural sales Phil Popper. Manager of the economic analysis division or Ide stale research and Dei Elam Cal Centra he noted i Staic s Large percentage of unskilled jobs across the re Al South in s Multi the same according to a report Lor the congressional Sunbelt caucus 27 percent of the Nan agric Rural workforce is in maniac lung. Which is on a Long Lerm decline. Appa cd Jacl Turing 15 Mississippi s Leader in employment. Besides hat. Lurn Ilure building is entered in the Tupelo area and Catfish processing employs people in the Delta since the 1960s, manufacturing has employed More people than farming in this state where 70 percent of the people in a tails toe Urban areas and yet in some recent years the leading source of income in Mississippi was neither. It was government Transfer pay monks Aid to families with dependent children social Secundy Lood Stamps As tote Economy becomes mow automated More geared toward people with shirts Pepper , you re going to see More people left out " Ankel Iho to Luton. He quoted missis a Ornar Rny Mahus " Wilhau that High Lohn Alkurjy co Ftp non i will Continuo to stay Awny Jane Jat a Ion. A lawyer working Lor in i Homie Offtor 50nutivt 5 t ii Vul gut to Gol of Ifni Jurle is enough math and end Sinh re Hal Iho a t sch can Leach them to work or a a in in furl areas nationally in per co of pc ski full below the poverty level flan i $h.2fl01nf a family of tour according id 19b6 census ourtau figures that s Jap Sams Rale of in inner cites i Dahl Hsnk the people who arc Mastermind ring this Economy Are paying atle lion to Phish John Zippert of Iho fed mation at Southern Cooper Blives. A group bus fed in Alabama Hal helps family of Aimers hold onto Khoii land. La s a it Lac Ike the underclass question of the Urban ghetto that there s going to be a permanent class Ihal s going to be left to Hind " Teit behind is a Liling descried on a tort one your ural areas across the country lost &32.qqq people to metro a Cas due Tomi Tahon sen pal Rock Leahy Dot. Has thais like saying hat All of North Dakota migrated in one year " Toto be Vic Jeavon lend to be the Besl educated. A of foal inc Nimg the Rural brain Drain it s nol hat nothing is being done to address the Rural a ban economic restructuring thai Jesse it Iii of the Southern Groin in Poncier bated has in med "u5f As profound As what was happening in the Bui Many observers of the Rural poor say the efforts of government arc Pinc Moa and inadequate Federal funding of a variety of Jura development p or tvs added up to Aboul St 6 billion last year. According to a study us1 completed by the Center for Community change a research and advocacy group m Washington. 0 c the Csc a Grams it Kidd Grant and ban programs of Chr department of housing and Urban development Horn which Tchula received res Grant and the agriculture. Commerce and other Ftp Arimento the funding Levels have shrunk radically rom what they were at the end of the Carlsr administration Saio Norm Deweaver. Who led the study. The Reagan admin is ratio s policy has been in decentralize efforts Loaid Rural Devi Oppenl noted the economic research organization Mac inc., of Chape Hill. N a. In a report last month the Federal government no dictates fewer rules and provides fewer Defars. As a Fessuh Mac there is a surge of economic and social initiatives m state governments throughout the country " besides a new emphasis on improving education in virtually All Southern Stales initiatives cited by Mac in Cut ded a Bank in Arkansas Shaf focus a mainly on Rural economic development innovative literacy projects m Kentucky and a biracial group in struggling nox Bee county miss., thai promotes Home grown businesses nonetheless the study cited Many Mere dark Rural places a Lull Lack Giffi resources the a Formalin. And the encouragement to make Bini Hanl economic Progress and it called for More carefully targeted Federal and private sector help in giving isolated peaces Access to capital and management assistance education and just outside of Tchula. The members of the m la ton Coop know what a Hotle outside help can mean sitting in the spare country store that the Coop of Black Larme s has owned Lor 40 years Willie Lacy the acting president talked Aboul the donation they received from barmaid the Chanty fund created by country musicians some of the members whose Cotton arms average about 50 acres used the Money to pay delinquent Taos or overdue rent on Manoj of off text Jinjer Bills i can be member one Lacy he had everything but hecouldn1, Jol dict idl so Hal helped him " in to Szorc. The Ofle noon gathering place now a to fish before plan Raj time late Coop Memic a say they could use a dil Tarent kind of outside help they d like to restart their Cotton Gin. Which closed a Lew years ago because of a gush Sickon crops and sack of Mono and they d a Tod vhf Ify. May to Auxin ii plan Hai a Puld prix ass pc Are anti free a � pc it tar v0.t . App Hviid int who a about ready to trailers ranted with Federal Money provide housing Tor families who had own tiring Fri shacks in a Stum near Tunica. Miss. A p Rit like that would cup a Tome of to workers by plan Jung find picking machines first trough they d need the a Pervise to help ensure p j to it a. And be conc or two up invest sent the idea is not to gel nth tin. Mon due to employ pea pie give then it gun oration a Chance to stay Here h i realize it in Duton t cure the Pfoh Lam Lacy a a. But Ihrl Ivou d help some " 2, 1988 the stars and stripes Page 15
