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5. Kermit Gordon, Agenda for the Nation (Washington, D.C.: The Brookings
Institution, 1968) p. 256. The funding of the new defense industries
came not simply from purchases cf equipment from individual companies,
but also from the development of the enormous federal scientific
"research establishment through funding of university research as well
as the establishment of a series of "national laboratories". They
included the Argonne Laboratory at Chicago, the Radialis Laboratory at
Berkeley, the Lincoln Laboratory at Massachusetts Institute of Technology,-the
Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, etc. *
CHANGES
IN INCOME DISTRIBUTION AND IN EMPI.OYMENT
Percentage of
Families with
Income of:
1959-1963 1963-1967
"1959 1963 Change 1967 Change
Over $15,000 3.1 5.4 +2.3 12.2 +6.8
$5,000-$15,000 52.3 58.3 +6.0 62.7 +4.4
Under $5,000 44.6 36.2 -8.4 25.1 -11.1
Based oi, "Consumer Income," Current Population Reports, Department of
Commerce, August 5, 1968, pp.2'7.- The data in this table are based on
income only, prior to deductions for taxes. However, the report states,
"Even after allowance for changes in con~uiier prices, family income has
risen by 3-1/2 to 4 percent in each of the last 4 years" (p.1).
6. Ibid., p. 258
7. R. Weber, ed., America In Change: Reflection on the 60'q and 70's
(London: Univers-tyof Notre Dame Press, 1972) p. 42 presents census
data from the US Deparkrment of Commerce which reflects the populacion
shifts from the farm to urban and suburban areas.
Farm, city, and suburban populations 1940-1970
Farm Central Suburb
city
1940
1950
31,000,000
23,000,000
43,000,000
50,000,000
27,000,000
37,000,000
1960 16,000,000 57,000,000 56,000,000
1970 10,000,000 65,000,000 76,000,000
SNote:
Rural nonfarm dwellers, and urban residents outside of
metropolitan areas, are not included. Some farm dwellers are
also included in the suburban category. Definition of central
city and suburb for the years 1940-1960 are according to the 1960
Census. The 1970 figures reflect some slight changes in the
definitions that were used in the 1970 Census.
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