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on farms was unemployed; the comparable rate for the nonfarm civilian population was 5.3 percent. About 4.5 million of 1973 farm residents 14 years of age and over were in the labor force. Only about one - half of these worked in agriculturally related jobs and the other half at nonfarm jobs, with about 84,000 unemployed. At the same time, about 40 percent of ail workers employed in agriculture in 1973 did not live on farms.

MEDIAN family income of the farm population was $10,045 in 1973 compared with $12,151 for nonfarm families. About 15 percent of farm families had in

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