My bill presents. as a beginning step. a way CXIII- 1776Part 21 for the Nation to develop business and employment in smaller cities and areas of underemployment and unemployment. to assist in bringing excess farm labor and other unemployed and underemployed labor into a new productive relation to society and yet to enable such people to remain in less densely populated areas. and not to be forced to migrate to our already overcrowded cities. Let me consider specifically the needs of the West and of my own State. New Mexico. The West is. of course. the most recently settled portion of the country and it is an area where farms are still being established. However. it has one of the lowest rates for retaining its farmborn population on the farm and. in fact. finds it necessary to depend on migrants from other areas to replenish its farm population. Nevertheless. over 95 percent of those persons who are farmborn but leave the farm remain in the West. New Mexico is not losing population.
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