In Appalachia. for example. there were 380.000 unemployed worker in 19607.1 percent of the total work force. What is worse. there are apparently a number of men who simply have withdrawn from the work force out of despair at ever finding a jobfor the number of Appalachians either employed or seeking work is 700.000 less than we would expect if Appalachia followed the normal jobseeking patterns of the Nation. Unemployment is particularly severe among certain groups. the average migrant farmworker. for example. worked at farm labor for only 161 days in 1962. His average earning from farmwork was $874. his average earning for all work was $1.123 per year. The House Education and Labor Committee estimates that unemployment or underemployment is the major cause of poverty in about half of the 35 million families with incomes of less than $3.000.