There appears to be growing consensus that a rapid rate of over-all economic growth will not alone solve the unemployment problem in the so-called depressed areas; indeed, the geographic shifts in demand resulting from rapid economic growth may only intensify the problem for some communities....

Examination of the relationship between net population migration and wage levels in the United States. Number of migrants; Rates of net migration; Possibility for error in the study. (Abstract copyright EBSCO.)

For more than a decade in some instances, a substantial number of those communities classified as major labor-market areas struggled with relatively little success to lift their burden of heavy and chronic unemployment. There is now a consensus that federal assistance is necessary to solve this...