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Yoshikawa, Hirokazu – Russell Sage Foundation, 2011
There are now nearly four million children born in the United States who have undocumented immigrant parents. In the current debates around immigration reform, policymakers often view immigrants as an economic or labor market problem to be solved, but the issue has a very real human dimension. Immigrant parents without legal status are raising…
Descriptors: Community Services, Low Income, Labor Legislation, Labor Market
Bradley, Nolen E. – 1970
This short document highlights community service and continuing education programing in Tennessee under Title I of the Higher Education Act of 1965 for the fiscal years 1966-1970. During this period 86 community service and continuing education programs at 22 colleges and universities have used $835,213.15 in Federal funds out of a total of…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Community Services, Extension Education, Federal Aid
Braddock, David; And Others – 1984
The monograph summarizes national, regional, and state expenditure data for mental retardation (MR)/developmental disabilities (DD) services from fiscal year 1977-84. Data were compiled through responses of MR/DD state agency officials to data extracted from state excecutive budget documents. The project was designed to (1) develop a methodology…
Descriptors: Community Services, Developmental Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Expenditures
Comptroller General of the U.S., Washington, DC. – 1980
The results of a reivew by the United States General Accounting Office (GAO), this paper examines the Title XX Program of the Social Security Act and makes suggestions for its improvement. The Title XX Program provides funds to states to enable them to tailor social services programs to fit the needs of local communities. Such services are…
Descriptors: Adult Day Care, Community Services, Contracts, Federal Programs
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California State Dept. of Education, Sacramento. Div. of Compensatory Education. – 1977
This report summarizes some of the activities of the staff of the Office of Compensatory Education from 1975 to 1976. The overall aim of these activities was to provide educational opportunities to disadvantaged children in California. Activities are described as they relate to 12 types of programs, namely: Compensatory Education Administration in…
Descriptors: Community Services, Compensatory Education, Demonstration Programs, Elementary Secondary Education
Richardson, Joseph L.; Larson, Olaf F. – 1975
Based on Edumund Brunner's three studies of 140 U.S. agricultural villages (1924, 1930, and 1936, 13 of Brunner's New York communities were examined in 1974 to determined in 1974 to determine changes in: (1) population between 1920 and 1970, (2) Dun and Bradstreet business listings between 1921 and 1970 (employment opportunities); (3) community…
Descriptors: Community Change, Community Services, Employment Opportunities, Federal Programs
Bruner, Charles; Carter, Judy Langford – 1991
In recent years, government has recognized that programs like Head Start are cost-effective investments that improve the school readiness of disadvantaged children. Over the last decade, states have been leaders in supporting services to infants and toddlers and their families. Examples of such initiatives include Hawaii's Healthy Start program,…
Descriptors: Community Services, Early Intervention, Family Programs, Federal Programs
Bovbjerg, Barbara D. – 2000
This report analyzes four programs administered by the Corporation for National Service (CNS): AmeriCorps*National Civilian Community Corps (NCCC), AmeriCorps*State/National, AmeriCorps*VISTA, and AmeriCorps*Education Awards. AmeriCorps allows participants to earn education awards to help pay for their postsecondary education in exchange for…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Citizen Participation, Community Involvement, Community Services
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1981
This congressional report contains testimony given at an oversight hearing on the termination of the Community Services Administration (CSA) and the subsequent transition to the community services block grant program. Among those organizations and agencies represented at the hearing were the following: the National Community Action Agency; the…
Descriptors: Block Grants, Community Services, Federal Legislation, Federal Programs
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1982
Eight pieces of federal legislation relating to job training are provided. These are (1) the Job Training Partnership Act, as amended; (2) the Wagner-Peyser Act, legislation to provide for the establishment of a national employment system, as amended; (3) the National Apprenticeship Act; (4) the Vocational Education Act of 1963, Title I, as…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Apprenticeships, Community Services, Disadvantaged
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American Annals of the Deaf, 1980
The special section contains information on federal programs, state programs, independent programs, social/recreational programs and agencies, and supportive organizations and agencies serving the deaf. (SBH)
Descriptors: Community Services, Deafness, Federal Programs, Health Services
Commission on Civil Rights, Washington, DC. – 1982
This report contains the final results of the United States Commission on Civil Rights' investigation of race and ethnic discrimination in federally assisted programs for older persons. The investigation was the result of allegations that the minority elderly were not being served by Older Americans Act programs. The information reported was…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Community Services, Compliance (Legal), Contracts
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American Annals of the Deaf, 1979
The third section of the journal contains information and addresses on federal, state, and independent programs for the deaf as well as social and recreational agencies and supportive organizations and agencies. (PHR)
Descriptors: Community Services, Deafness, Directories, Federal Programs
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Appropriations. – 1992
Hearings were conducted in Newark (New Jersey), Los Angeles (California), Detroit (Michigan), and Atlanta (Georgia) to elicit testimony concerning public investment in education and social services for children and their families. At each of the four hearings, an opening statement by Senator Tom Harkin was followed by statements from individuals…
Descriptors: Adolescents, At Risk Persons, Children, Community Services
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