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Safety Net Programs: Are They Reaching Poor Children? A Report of the Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families. U.S. House of Representatives, Ninety-Ninth Congress, Second Session, Together with Dissenting Minority Views (September 1986).
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Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families. – 1986
This report focuses on programs for low-income children, covering health, nutrition, education and income maintenance. The number of children below the poverty line in each United States county, using 1980 Census data, was compared with the number of impoverished children reached in 1984 by three critical programs: Aid to Families with Dependent…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Federal Programs, Health
Who Bears the Burden? Black Children in America: Impact of the President's FY '85 Budget Proposals.
National Black Child Development Inst., Inc., Washington, DC. – 1984
Emphasizing the effects of changes in social policy on black children, this report describes the federal administration's proposed and completed funding for social programs for fiscal years 1982-85 and outlines strategies for those interested in affecting program policy. Social programs are grouped under three main headings: (1) health and child…
Descriptors: Adoption, Black Youth, Budgeting, Child Welfare
Rising Poverty, Declining Health: The Nutritional Status of the Rural Poor.
Public Voice for Food and Health Policy, Washington, DC. – 1986
Using five key indicators of nutritional status (dietary intake, biochemical tests for circulating levels of nutrients or their metabolites, anthropometric measures, low birth weight and infant mortality rates, and food, health, and income assistance program participation rates and benefit levels), this 1-year research project identified national,…
Descriptors: Birth Weight, Census Figures, Databases, Economically Disadvantaged