Ahearn, Mary Clare; Yee, Jet; Bottum, John S. - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 2003
In 1914, the Cooperative Extension Service was established to disseminate information about agriculture and home economics from land-grant universities to the U.S. public. At that time, about 30 percent of U.S. workers were in agriculture-related occupations; by the late 1990s, that share had...
