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UDAG Grants to Rural Areas: A Program that Works

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  • Marie Howland

    (University of Maryland)

  • Ted Miller

    (Urban Institute)

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This article uses data from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's (HUD) Urban Development Action Grant (UDAG) grant agreement data base and a survey of 169 rural UDAG projects to evaluate the job-creation success of rural UDAG projects. The authors draw the following conclusions. First, the rural component of the UDAG program has created the number of jobs promised in the original grant agreements. Second, there is little evidence that UDAG projects have resulted in job creation outside of the UDAG recipient firms. Finally, the federal cost of creating a rural manufacturing job through the UDAG program is approximately $5,546. This cost represents the sum of the federal UDAG grants in a sample of 115 projects divided by the number of jobs created in the same projects.

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  • Marie Howland & Ted Miller, 1990. "UDAG Grants to Rural Areas: A Program that Works," Economic Development Quarterly, , vol. 4(2), pages 128-136, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:ecdequ:v:4:y:1990:i:2:p:128-136
    DOI: 10.1177/089124249000400205
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    1. Rural Economy Division, 1995. "Business Assistance and Rural Development," Staff Reports 278872, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service.

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