Critical Choices for the 80'sNational Advisory Council on Economic Opportunity, 1980 - 174 pages |
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Advisory Council AFDC American antipoverty assistance basic necessities CAAs and CDCs Census CETA Community Action Agencies Community Development Community Services Administration Congressional Budget Office Consumer Consumer Price Index Council believes Council found Council recommends created crime Director of CSA Economic Development Economic Opportunity Act effect efforts Employment and Training energy conservation energy prices evaluation expenditures Federal agencies fiscal fuel funds grant guidelines housing human impact in-kind benefits income increase inflation rate institutions job creation jobless labor legislation less eligibility low-income households ment million minority youth official poverty participation percent percentage Poor Laws poverty line poverty rate poverty threshold priority private industry problems projects public service recipients recommends that Congress recommends that CSA rising social spending tion U.S. Department unem unemployed unemployment rate Urban wage supplementation War on Poverty weatherization program Welfare Reform women workers
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Page 32 - Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, (if ever he had a chosen people,) whose breasts He has made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. It is the focus in which He keeps alive that sacred fire, which, otherwise, might escape from the face of the earth. Corruption of morals, in the mass of cultivators, is a phenomenon, of which no age nor nation has furnished an example.
Page 126 - Throughout the evidence it is shown, that in proportion as the condition of any pauper class is elevated above the condition of independent labourers, the condition of the independent class is depressed; their industry is impaired, their employment becomes unsteady, and its remuneration in wages is diminished.
Page 170 - He is a graduate of the City College of New York, and his post-graduate studies were at the University of Bern in Switzerland.
Page 148 - Opportunity has predicted that: "[a]ll other things being equal, if the proportion of the poor who are in female-headed families were to increase at the same rate as it did from 1967 to 1977, the poverty population would be composed solely of women and their children by about the year 2000.
Page 19 - All other things being equal, if the proportion of the poor who are in female-headed families were to increase at the same rate as it did from 1967 to 1977, the poverty population would be composed solely of women and their children by about the year 2000. 40 The Impact of "In-Kind...
Page 32 - Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is a phenomenon of which no age nor nation has furnished an example. It is the mark set on those, who, not looking up to heaven, to their own soil and industry, as does the husbandman, for their subsistence, depend for it on casualties and caprice of customers. Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
Page 33 - The free institutions which the inhabitants of the United States possess, and the political rights of which they make so much use, remind every citizen, and in a thousand ways, that he lives in society. They every instant impress upon his mind the notion that it is the duty as well as the interest of men to make themselves useful to their...
Page 32 - As riches increase and accumulate in few hands ; as luxury prevails in society ; virtue will be in a greater degree considered as only a graceful appendage of wealth, and the tendency of things will be to depart from the republican standard.
Page 31 - We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Our constitution was made only for a moral and a religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
Page 31 - Virtue, patriotism, or love of country never was and never will /be, till men's natures are changed, a fixed, permanent principle and support of government.