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Buckeye Valley News And Buckeye Review
Buckeye, Maricopa County, Arizona
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In Montana, efforts to combat rural depopulation and 'ghost town blight' from city migration are intensifying via increased funding for the Montana study, established in 1944. Objectives include adult education in rural areas, economic stabilization of small towns through volunteers, and retaining young people by improving cultural and economic standards. WWII accelerated the trend, with 20% population loss since Pearl Harbor.
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Efforts to cure the 'ghost town blight' caused by migration to the city of rural talent and enterprise are being intensified in Montana by recently increased expenditures for rural redevelopment research according to the council of state governments.
World War II accelerated this rural depopulation trend. In Montana, where almost 20 per cent of the population has moved elsewhere since Pearl Harbor, the
Montana study was set up in 1944. Recent increases by the state in Montana study funds enabled new additions to the project's staff and expansion of activities. Key objective of the Montana study are (1) to help bring adult education facilities to rural areas, (2) to help small towns stabilize their economic life through local volunteer effort, and (3) to keep more able young people in their home towns by raising cultural as well as economic standards of living.
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Montana
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1944
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Efforts to cure the 'ghost town blight' caused by migration to the city of rural talent and enterprise are being intensified in Montana by recently increased expenditures for rural redevelopment research according to the council of state governments. World War II accelerated this rural depopulation trend. In Montana, where almost 20 per cent of the population has moved elsewhere since Pearl Harbor, the Montana study was set up in 1944. Recent increases by the state in Montana study funds enabled new additions to the project's staff and expansion of activities. Key objective of the Montana study are (1) to help bring adult education facilities to rural areas, (2) to help small towns stabilize their economic life through local volunteer effort, and (3) to keep more able young people in their home towns by raising cultural as well as economic standards of living.