Leaving Home Blues

Duration: 51

Year Published: 1971

Creator: NBC EDUCATIONAL ENTERPRISES

Format: 16mm

Description: Examines the characteristics and problems of rural migration to urban reas, focusing on North Carolina, Nebraska, and Texas. Emphasizes that the lack of employment opportunities in rural communities forces high school students to leave the area after graduation and stresses that the young people neither want to leave home and family nor have the needed skills to work in urban areas. Discusses the unneeded farm worker; the disappearing small family farmer; and the financial plight of the larger, more industrialized farmer.

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