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...Level. Above and beyond these achievements, Coleman considers that he has a far more serious mission to fulfill. Mississippi has the most lopsided economy in the South: 42% of its work force is on farms. Striving to eliminate illiteracy and grinding poverty, and determined to raise the lowest per-capita income in the nation and halt an exodus of 40.000 citizens each year, the state has tried to balance agriculture with new industry ever since the first term of Governor Hugh White...
...England fishing industry can solve many of its own problems-if only it will. New England fishermen, like others on both the East and West Coasts, have been hard hit by heavy foreign imports (which amounted to 35% of the U.S. consumption in 1956), consumer apathy to fish (per capita consumption:11 lbs., v. 160 Ibs. for meat), and the high cost of operating, repairing and replacing boats. But many of the industry's troubles are the result of antiquated ideas and unwise practices. Says Vice President Jack Fulham: "Just so long as we didn't do things...
...obeying a provision of this Employment Act, President Eisenhower sent to Congress his yearly Economic Report, and evident in its pages was a striking departure from the spirit of 1946. After a decade in which the gross national product soared from $232 billion to $412 billion and real per-capita income after taxes rose 20% (to an average $1,705 for every man, woman and child in the nation), Ike's No. 1 economic worry was not unemployment but inflation. And the economic responsibilities he stressed were not those of the Federal Government, but those of businessmen, labor leaders...
...Boston's problems are really not of its own creation," Soloway said. "I think the state should give much more to Boston and the large cities and towns." In addition, he said, "statewise, we lag in school aid, per capita grants to cities, and city welfare problems...
...Annual average per capita contribution for all U.S. denominations...