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Download full textCongress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources. – 1983
These Congressional hearings contain testimony pertaining to the passage of the Community Volunteer Service Act of 1983. This bill would amend the Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA) program to provide a more concrete mandate for the program; would have VISTA volunteers recruited locally and assigned to projects to alleviate poverty and…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Community Programs, Federal Legislation, Hearings
Blair, Patricia W. – 1974
Too much of the debate over the five-year, 30 billion dollar program of State and Local Assistance has focussed on its presumed or theoretical impact. Too little has dealt with what actually happens when the quarterly Treasury checks arrive at the local level. Local-level studies that are under way concentrate heavily on the fiscal impact of…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, City Government, Economically Disadvantaged, Equal Protection
