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Abstract
The Government has tried to ameliorate the "rural problem" for the past 100 years. The first efforts, improving the physical characteristics of rural areas—roads, electricity, and so forth—met with quick and quantifiable success. The success of more recent efforts has been moot, despite the money and labor spent by a variety of agencies, commissions, and administrations. The problems, though, may now be more intractable—unemployment, persistent poverty, inadequate housing.