Juvenile Delinquency Control Act: Hearings Before the Special Subcommittee on Education of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, Eighty-seventh Congress, First Session, on H. R. 7178, and Various Bills for Prevention and Control of Juvenile Delinquency and Youth Offenses ...

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1961 - 245 pages
Considers legislation to authorize Federal assistance to juvenile delinquency control programs.

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Page 2 - Secretary but not exceeding $50 per diem, including travel time, and while away from their homes or regular places of business they may be allowed travel expenses, including per diem in lieu of subsistence, as authorized by section 5 of the Administrative Expenses Act of 1946 (5 USC 73b-2) for persons in the Government service employed intermittently.
Page 59 - The lesson is that to a considerable degree what a school should do and can do is determined by the status and ambitions of the families being served.
Page 2 - Payments under grants made under this Act may be made in installments, and in advance or by way of reimbursement, as may be determined by the Administrator. DEFINITIONS Sec. 302. When used in this Act— (a) The term 'Administrator' means the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. (b) The term 'air pollution control agency...
Page 55 - In a slum area of 125,000 people, mostly Negro, a sampling of the youth population shows that roughly 70 percent of the boys and girls ages 16 to 21 are out of school and unemployed.
Page 169 - Congress hereby finds and declares that juvenile delinquency and youth offenses diminish the strength and vitality of the people of our Nation; that such delinquency and offenses are increasing in both urban and rural communities; that such delinquency and offenses occur disproportionately among school dropouts, unemployed youth faced with limited opportunities and with employment barriers, and youth in deprived family situations...
Page 59 - The building up of a mass of unemployed and frustrated Negro youth in congested areas of a city is a social phenomenon that may be compared to the piling up of inflammable material in an empty building in a city block. Potentialities for trouble — indeed, possibilities of disaster — are surely there. Let me...
Page 2 - General, shall be entitled to receive compensation at a rate to be fixed by the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, but not exceeding $50 per diem, including travel time, and while away from their homes or regular places of business...
Page 1 - States in matters relating to the rehabilitation of handicapped individuals ; (2) provide short-term training and instruction in technical matters relating to vocational rehabilitation services, including the establishment and maintenance of such research fellowships and traineeships, with such stipends and allowances (including travel and subsistence expenses), as he may deem necessary, except that no such training or instruction (or fellowship or scholarship) shall be provided any individual for...
Page 61 - I submit that in a heavily urbanized and industrialized free society the educational experiences of youth should fit his subsequent employment. There should be a smooth transition from full-time schooling to a full-time job, whether that transition be after grade 10 or after graduation from school, college, or university.
Page 58 - States— is the outstanding characteristic of youth in the Negro slum. Secondly, a foreign immigrant came from an impoverished but stable society, for the most part a peasant society with its own ancient mores. The pride of family and often strong church connections were social cement that kept the slums from being complete social jungles in spite of the fact that the dwelling conditions were often far worse than they are today.

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