It is in the interest of the city people to also want to do what we can to let people live in that kind of an area where they would prefer to stay. Those with the greater skills that were in the most demand have already migrated in too many cases. and while the ones that are left in almost every instance. do not want to migrate to the cities. unless the trend of the economic and social situation changes. many will be forced to do so. While a man may have been a highly skilled farmer. he is classified as unskilled in the city world of work and statistics show that migrants of rural origin who moved to the central cities in 1967 were more likely than nonmigrants to live in poverty areas. In fact. 35 percent of those living in poverty areas were ruralurban migrants as compared with only 25 percent who had been reared in the poverty area. Production per manhour has increased almost three times as fast on the farm as in the city but instead of reaping benefits from this tremendous increase in farm production. it has caused reduction in prices to offset any increase in the return from the higher volume. While the people of the United States use less and less of their income to pay for food. the farmers are getting a smaller and smaller portion of the food dollar.
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