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Rural Development: New Approach to Empowering Communities Needs Refinement

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date March 31, 1997
Report No. RCED-97-75
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Summary:

Congress created the Empowerment Zone/Enterprise Community Program in 1993 to help distressed communities develop comprehensive approaches for dealing with their social and economic problems. The program is unique in its reliance upon the participating communities' own approaches and strategic plans for improvement. This report (1) estimates the federal funding levels of the rural Empowerment Zone/Enterprise Community Program over the 10-year life of the program, (2) determines the status of the program's implementation, (3) identifies the difficulties that the communities have encountered in carrying out their plans, and (4) examines the Agriculture Department's oversight of the program.

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