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Children and Youth: The Crisis at Home for American Families. Hearing before the Committee on Labor and Human Resources. United States Senate, One Hundred Second Congress, First Session Examining Services Available to Children and Youth from Impoverished Families, Focusing on Ways To Ensure That They Graduate from High School, Prepare Them for the Workforce, and/or Help Them Get Into School.
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Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources. – 1991
Congressional hearings on American children and youth living in crisis were conducted in an effort to determine how the needs of these young people can assume their proper place in national priorities. A three-pronged strategy was suggested by chairman Edward Kennedy: (1) more investment in cost-effective programs that work (for example, Head…
Descriptors: Child Health, Children, Dropout Prevention, Early Parenthood