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Download full textLeonard, Rodney E. – 1969
The school lunch program has not responded to national needs: the greater the need of the child from a poor neighborhood, the less the community is able to meet it. Of about eight million children whose families cannot afford the cost of a school meal, three million receive a lunch free or at reduced cost; of the five million denied reasonable…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Federal Legislation, Federal Programs, Financial Needs
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs. – 1972
The purpose of this report is to review the history of the commitment to ensure nutritional adequacy for all American families during the last several years, and to study the relationship between proposed welfare reform measures and that commitment to nutritional adequacy. A specific proposal, H.R.1, eliminates food stamps, the Nation's primary…
Descriptors: Federal Aid, Federal Government, Federal Legislation, Federal Programs
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs. – 1971
Contents of Part One include, in addition to the testimony of the witnesses called, such materials as: examples of citizen complaints, about the operation of school lunch programs; a report on the nutritional status of preschool Mexican-American farm children; a report on the Demonstration Migrant Nutrition Education Project, Edinburg, Texas; a…
Descriptors: Administrative Problems, Community Health Services, Disadvantaged Youth, Economically Disadvantaged
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House. – 1992
This publication is the text of the House of Representatives bill, H.R. 5600 introduced to the U.S. Congress and titled "Children's Initiative." This legislation is designed to promote family preservation and the prevention of foster care with emphasis on families where abuse of alcohol or drugs is present, to improve the quality and…
Descriptors: Adoption, Alcohol Abuse, Child Welfare, Children
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs. – 1972
Contents of these hearings are as follows: Opening statement by Senator Philip Hart, presiding; testimony of Senator Clifford P. Case of New Jersey; testimony of Ronald F. Pollack, director, Food Research and Action Center (FRAC), New York, N.Y., and of Suzanne Vaupel and Mark Irving, project coordinators, FRAC; and, the testimony of Richard Lyng,…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns, Breakfast Programs, Classroom Environment
Witt, Virginia, Ed. – 1987
This document provides an analysis of the federal government's funding of programs which aid children and families. The foreword begins by describing the crisis which children and families face in the U.S. and proceeds to outline a course of action to help correct the problems. Chapter 1 discusses the federal budget process and the changes in the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Budgeting, Child Abuse, Child Neglect
