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The Potential Additional Supply Of Labor Available To The Omaha Smsa: Summary, Lawrence A. Danton

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The purpose of this study is to determine from the best information available the potential supply of labor available to present and prospective employers in the community composing the Omaha SMSA. In doing so certain well established trends provide the starting point. First is the basic long-term shift in the industry employment patterns of the United States. That is, with the long term industrialization of the U.S. economy that has been taking place since the Civil War, there has been a continuous shift from agricultural to nonagricultural employment. This trend is still continuing and can be expected to do so …

The Changing Population Of The Omaha Smsa 1860-1967 With Estimates For 1970, John P. Zipay

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During the Twentieth Century, the growth of population in the Omaha SMSA has been greatest in the post-war period. In the decade between 1950 and 1960, for example, the growth approximated 25 per cent. Much of this increase has resulted from cycles of residential construction in the fringes of the urbanized area, a situation known as urban sprawl. This sprawl has taken place in each of the three counties comprising the SMSA, but most significantly it has occurred in the territory west and south of the city of Omaha. A considerable portion of the population of the SMSA now exists …

Omaha Unemployment Feasibility Study: Final Report, Larry D. Barnett, Kenneth Root, George Helling

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The research reported here was designed to test the feasibility of a practical approach to the reduction of unemployment, particularly among Negroes.

The need for the particular kind of emphasis used in this approach was recently stated by the director of the U.S. Employment Service in pointing out the need to obtain " more understanding of the things that make the community tick, that keep it from solving its problems, and that lead to the discovery of the real barriers to coordination..."

Perceptions Of Poverty Families About The Incidence And Effect And Redress Of Poverty In Omaha, Harry W. Reynolds

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Between March and May, 1965, 1112 families residing in nineteen census tracts in the City of Omaha were interviewed through the facilities of the Urban Studies Center of the Municipal University of Omaha with respect to various characteristics of their income, composition, and opinion as these items related to understanding the status of the econornica1ly underprivileged in their neighborhoods. The purpose of these interviews was to facilitate preparation of a community action program in Omaha capable of attacking some of the root causes of poverty and improving the conditions, present and future, of those families who were its victims. Quite …