Amendments to the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964, Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Employment, Manpower, and Poverty...89-2, on S. 3164, S. 2908, S. 3139, June 21, 22, 23, 24, 19661966 - 737 pages |
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... live in decency and dignity . It is the purpose of this act to strengthen , supplement and coordinate the efforts in furtherance of that policy . In seeking to achieve these objectives , Congress developed a pro- gram , which while it ...
... live in decency and dignity . It is the purpose of this act to strengthen , supplement and coordinate the efforts in furtherance of that policy . In seeking to achieve these objectives , Congress developed a pro- gram , which while it ...
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... lives . The new criteria would require specific priorities governing the distribution of funds and effective procedures for assur- ing coordination , at State and local levels , with agencies concerned with prob- lems of poverty ...
... lives . The new criteria would require specific priorities governing the distribution of funds and effective procedures for assur- ing coordination , at State and local levels , with agencies concerned with prob- lems of poverty ...
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... live in the target areas of the City , who can speak from firsthand knowledge and insight . Twenty months ago , this ... lives of 4 million impoverished Americans in the slums of 800 urban and rural communities ; in 200 migrant camps and ...
... live in the target areas of the City , who can speak from firsthand knowledge and insight . Twenty months ago , this ... lives of 4 million impoverished Americans in the slums of 800 urban and rural communities ; in 200 migrant camps and ...
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... lives in the degrading environment of a slum Neither education nor a job can bring Mnene era of poverty who lives in a broken home with no wage - earner in the vore , tangent food , no medicine , no books and not even the basic ...
... lives in the degrading environment of a slum Neither education nor a job can bring Mnene era of poverty who lives in a broken home with no wage - earner in the vore , tangent food , no medicine , no books and not even the basic ...
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... lives , and the lives of their families . We are testing and experimenting with educational materials and teaching techniques to determine their effectiveness in motivating adults to read who can- not write or , for that matter , read ...
... lives , and the lives of their families . We are testing and experimenting with educational materials and teaching techniques to determine their effectiveness in motivating adults to read who can- not write or , for that matter , read ...
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activities administration amendment antipoverty application areas assistance basic Bedford-Stuyvesant bill Breckinridge Camp Breckinridge Chairman City Committee community action agency community action programs Congress coordination Corporation Corpsmen cost Council Department Director Economic Opportunity Act effective effort employment enrollees Evansville experience families Federal feel fiscal funds girls gram groups Head Start Headstart housing involved Job Corps Center Labor Legal Aid Society legal services program Manpower Development MDTA ment million munity Negro Neighborhood Boards Neighborhood Youth Corps nomic Office of Economic operation organizations Owner-Operator participation percent persons planning poor poverty program problems proposed residents responsibility rural salary SARGENT SHRIVER Senator CLARK Senator JAVITS Senator KENNEDY Senator MURPHY social staff statement subcommittee Suffolk County SVIRIDOFF tion Title training programs urban vocational volunteers war on poverty Washington welfare WICS women workers
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Page 29 - Secretary, but not exceeding $100 per day, including travel time, and while so serving 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 64 - In a joint effort, the Office of Economic Opportunity and the Department of Health, Education and Welfare...
Page 1 - The United States can achieve its full economic and social potential as a nation only if every individual has the opportunity to contribute to the full extent of his capabilities and to participate in the workings of our society. It is, therefore, the policy of the US to eliminate the paradox of poverty in the midst of plenty...
Page 89 - ... community"), including but not limited to a state, metropolitan area, county, city, town, multicity unit, or multicounty unit in an attack on poverty; (2) which provides services, assistance, and other activities of sufficient scope and size to give promise of progress toward elimination of poverty or a cause or causes of poverty through developing employment opportunities, improving human performance, motivation and productivity, or bettering the conditions under which people live, learn and...
Page 87 - Act of 1964, which specified that community action programs should be developed, conducted and administered with "maximum feasible participation" of the residents of the areas and members of the groups served.
Page 1 - It is, therefore, the policy of the United States to eliminate the paradox of poverty in the midst of plenty in this Nation by opening to everyone the opportunity for education and training, the opportunity to work, and the opportunity to live in decency and dignity.
Page 211 - Chairman of the American Bar Association's Standing Committee on Legal Aid and Indigent Defendants.
Page 23 - States, (iii) not in excess of three years during which the borrower is in service as a volunteer under the Peace Corps Act or (iv) not in excess of three years during which the borrower is in service as a volunteer under Title VIII of the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964...
Page 213 - But even the American Bar Association and the National Legal Aid and Defender Association have been urging an extension of the authority of the Cor-, poration without amendment. Yet, along comes of all people bur...
Page 217 - Committees, shall cooperate with the Office of Economic Opportunity and other appropriate groups in the development and implementation of programs for expanding availability of legal services to...