Part 2 of this congressional hearing contains the testimony and prepared statements of 31 witnesses on the topics of rural community resources, the rural labor force, rural finance, and rural education to assist the Subcommittee on Agriculture and Transportation in identifying the problems and potential of America's rural economy. With emphasis on rural health care delivery, the social service structures of small towns are described by nine witnesses. Among the topics considered by representatives of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Department of Agriculture's Economic Research Service and Statistical Reporting Service, Cornell University, and University of Wisconsin are a profile of the rural labor force, rural unemployment data collection/reporting, underemployment, unique employment problems of the self-employed, sole proprietorships and family small businesses, and rural cost of living and inflation statistics. Witnesses representing the Federal Reserve System, Farm Credit Administration, American Bankers Association, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, a Nebraska bank, and the University of Wisconsin Department of Agricultural Economics present rural finance issues. Witnesses representing South Dakota school administrators, teachers, school boards, and parents discuss problems facing rural education including lack of adequate funding, declining student population, small tax bases, low teacher salaries, continuation of school lunch programs, and provision of special education services. (NEC)