The attached report may be of some value to you in connection with your subcommittee's hearings to determine who owns the land and the effect of land-ownership use and distribution on farms and farmworkers in rural America. Please, also, do not overlook the landless poor of America.

Sincerely yours,

て

William H. Wilcox

Secretary

Enclosure

FINAL SUMMARY REPORT,

THE PENNSYLVANIA PANEL ON RURAL POVERTY

COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA
DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY AFFAIRS

BUREAU OF RESEARCH AND PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT

NOVEMBER, 1971

4.

Rural poverty in Pennsylvania 2

C.

d.

Conditions 2

Causes 3

Proposals 4

(1) Improvement of the rural economic base 4
(2) Increased incomes for particular groups 4

(3) Comprehensive approaches 5

Comments 5

e. Extractive Tax 6

Relationship of rural poverty to urban social and economic problems 7

a. Problem 7

b. Comments 7