Federal aid to depressed areas : an evaluation of the Area Redevelopment Administration

목차 (Table of Contents)

• CONTENTS
• Preface = ⅶ
• CHAPTER 1. THE POLITICS AND ECONOMICS OF DEPRESSED AREA LEGISLATION = 1
• Antecedents of the First Douglas Bill = 2
• The First Round - Eighty - fourth Congress = 4
• Jurisdictional Snag = 6
• House Rules Committee Blocks S. 2663 = 7
• The Battle Lines Are Formed = 8
• Round Two-Eighty-fifth Congress = 9
• Round Three-Eighty-sixth Congress = 13
• The Final Round-Eighty-seventh Congress = 17
• Issues Raised by the Area Redevelopment Legislation = 21
• Higher Level Debate : The Philosophic Issue = 22
• Is Federal Financing Necessary? = 24
• The Camel's Nose = 25
• Regional Conflicts = 26
• Conclusion = 27
• CHAPTER 2. THE ARA SETS UP SHOP = 30
• The Organizational Framework = 31
• Recruitment of Personnel = 31
• Organization of the ARA = 34
• Structure of the ARA = 38
• Relations with Delegate Agencies and Other Organizations = 41
• The "Delegate-Agency" Concept = 41
• External Pressures = 46
• ARA Finances = 48
• Evaluation of the ARA Organization = 50
• CHAPTEF 3. AREA DESIGNATION AND CHARACTERISTICS = 54
• Legislative Issues and Provisions = 54
• Industrial Areas(Section 5［a］) = 55
• Rural and Smaller Urban Areas(Section 5［b］) = 56
• The ARA Stakes Claim to a Thousand Counties = 60
• Termination of Designation = 64
• Opposition to Designation = 67
• What Is a Depressed Area? = 69
• Population and Labor Force = 70
• Unemployment and Employment = 72
• Education = 74
• Income = 74
• Wages = 76
• Housing = 76
• Local Government Finances = 77
• Farm Level of Living = 79
• Comment on Designation Policy = 79
• Note on the Seven Groups of Designated Areas = 81
• CHAPTER 4. INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL LOANS = 98
• Legislative Issues and Provisions = 98
• Guarantees vs. Direct Loans = 99
• Amount and Extent of Credit = 100
• Rate of Interest and Duration = 103
• Local Participation = 104
• The "Runaway" Shop Argument = 105
• Loan Characteristics = 108
• Geographic Distribution = 108
• Size of Loans = 111
• Distribution of Loans by Major Industry Groups = 113
• Administration of the Loan Program = 115
• Availability of Private Capital = 116
• SBA Participation in ARA Loans = 116
• Community Participation in ARA Loans = 117
• Relocation = 119
• Loan Criteria = 121
• Investment per Job = 121
• Competition and Excess Capacity = 124
• Appraisal of Loan Policy = 130
• CHAPTER 5. LOANS AND GRANTS FOR PUBLIC FACILITIES = 133
• Legislative Issues and Provisions = 133
• Interest Rate = 136
• Grants = 136
• Conditions for Making Grants = 138
• Community Resort to Subsidizing Industry = 139
• Grants vs. Loans = 141
• The Use of Public-Facility Funds = 146
• Statistical Summary = 149
• Accelerated Public-Works Program = 152
• Role of the ARA = 154
• Program Operations = 155
• CHAPTER 6. TRAINING THE UNEMPLOYED FOR JOBS = 162
• Legislative Issues and Provisions = 163
• Training Provisions(Section 16) = 163
• Subsistence Payments(Section 17) = 166
• The Administration of Training = 167
• Federal-State-Local Relations = 169
• Need for a National Program = 174
• Statistical Summary = 176
• Evaluation = 179
• Imaginative Projects = 181
• On-the-Job Training = 182
• Need to Broaden Program = 185
• Implications of ARA Training = 186
• CHAPTER 7. COMMUNITY PLANNING : THE UNLOCKING OF RESOURCES = 191
• Legislative Issues and Provisions = 191
• Technical Assistance = 193
• Research = 194
• Community Over-all Economic Development Programs = 195
• The Processing of OEDP's = 200
• Technical Assistance for OEDP's = 202
• Regional Planning and Development = 204
• Breaking Bottlenecks with Technical Assistance = 208
• Resource Feasibility Studies = 209
• Developing Tourism Potential = 212
• Marketing Studies = 213
• Long-Range Research = 214
• Appraisal of Technical Assistance and Research = 216
• CHAPTER 8. THE PACKAGE OF TOOLS = 221
• 1963 Amendments to die ARA = 222
• Additional Programs = 227
• Procurement = 227
• Accelerated Tax Amortization = 234
• Relocation = 239
• Federal Grants = 241
• Appraisal of ARA Tools = 242
• CHAPTER 9. CONCLUDING OBSERVATIONS : THE POLICY DILEMMA = 246
• Postscript = 255
• Comment / by William L. Batt, Jr = 257
• Index = 259
• LIST OF TABLES
• 2-1 ARA Personnel, Fiscal 1961 - 64 = 33
• 2-2 ARA Financial and Technical Assistance, Fiscal Years 1962 and 1963 = 49
• 3-1 Population and Number of ARA-Designated Areas by Region as of April 30, 1963 = 66
• 3-2 Population and Number of ARA-Designated Areas by Region as of December 31, 1962 = 85
• 3-3 Selected Characteristics of Thirty 5(a) Depressed Areas = 86
• 3-4 Selected Characteristics of Thirty-four 5(b) Depressed Areas = 88
• 3-5 Population and Net Civilian Migration in ARA-Designated Areas = 90
• 3-6 Distribution of Population by Sex and Age Groups, 1960 = 90
• 3-7 Labor-Force Participation Rate by Sex and Age Group, 1960 = 91
• 3-8 Distribution of Labor Force by Sex and Age Group, 1960 = 92
• 3-9 Labor-Force Participation and Unemployment Rates = 92
• 3-10 Distribution of Employment by Major Industry Groups, 1960 = 93
• 3-11 Change in Employment by Major Industry Group, 1950 and 1960 = 93
• 3-12 Distribution of Employment by Major Occupational Groups, 1950 and I960 = 94
• 3-13 Unemployment Rates by Major Occupational Groups, 1960 = 94
• 3-14 Education = 95
• 3-15 Income = 95
• 3-16 Average Annual Wages and Salaries per Employee in Manufacturing, Retail, Wholesale, and Services, 1958 = 96
• 3-17 Housing, 1960 = 96