Legislative changes to the National School Lunch Program in 1980 and 1981 tightened eligibility requirements for schools and students and reduced the Federal reimbursement rates for free, reduced-price, and full-price school lunches. The U.S. General Accounting Office analyzed participation and Federal expenditures for the 1979-83 period and…

This summary report is one of a series addressing major policy, management, or program issues facing Congress and the administration. The issues identified in this report indicate the need to: reduce the cost and preserve the integrity of higher education student loan and grant programs; enhance the federal role in monitoring lenders, agencies,…

The resurgence of national interest in youth service is due, in large part, to the national organizations that have grown so vigorously in recent years. Some explanations for the almost sudden reappearance of youth service as a nationwide issue are: (1) many Americans are fed up with narcissism, personal gratification, and me-centered pursuits;…

This hearing relates to the provision of assistive technology devices and services for disabled individuals, focusing on the need for a coordinated federal effort to assist states in the provision of these services. Proposed legislation (S. 1586, the Technology to Educate Children with Handicaps Act, called TECH Act) would establish assistive…

This hearing addresses issues of health, hunger, and malnutrition among Hispanic Americans. Health and poverty agency officials made statements before the committee and expressed difficulty in examining the health- and poverty-related problems among Hispanics because of a lack of data. Testimony indicated that previous data regarding the health of…

A hearing investigated children's health programs and related policies which might provide a healthy future for America's youth. Of particular interest were the coverage and scope of services under existing programs, and deficiencies in child health programs that may be remedied. Areas of concern included initiatives to improve infant mortality…

Chapter 1 was created from its predecessor, Title 1, in order to give more flexibility to states and local school districts. Many of the requirements and criteria of Title 1 were relaxed in 1981 when Chapter 1 began. Districts are now required to submit written plans of their new Chapter 1 organization assuring the comparability of services…

This report traces the historical development of federal housing policy that has promoted a 40% decline in substandard housing and a 20% increase in homeownership over the past 50 years. It presents emerging national and rural housing policy concerns: the proper role of federal, state, and local governments in the mortgage credit and insurance…

States are required by the Medicaid law to identify and investigate cases of suspected Medicaid abuse by reviewing recipients' and providers' use of Medicaid services. The General Accounting Office (GAO) conducted an assessment of programs to control recipient abuse in six states and to control provider abuse in four states to determine whether…

The U.S. Department of Education's financial management environment and effectiveness are described, together with the reliability of its accounting and internal control systems for the management of the money it gives or lends to schools, individual students, states, and local education agencies. The study found that key accounting and related…

This document is a transcript of an oversight hearing on the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA). This session, the second in a series designed by the House Subcommittee on Employment Opportunities to evaluate the program, focuses on the local and state implementation of the act. Testimony was heard from various representatives of organizations…

This booklet compiles five Congressional Acts for use by the House Committee on Education and Labor. The "Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Act of 1981" provides for the Secretary of Health and Human Services to authorize grants to States to assist eligible households to meet the costs of home energy, up to the amount of $2,140,000,000…

This report of a hearing before the House Subcommittee on Employment concerns the implementation of the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA). Witnesses addressed concerns about the program's allegedly unspent funds and the proposed funding cuts. Testimony was heard from William E. Brock, Secretary of Labor, and Raymond Flynn, Mayor of Boston,…

This document contains the text of a congressional hearing focusing on successful private and public ventures in job training efforts. The purpose was to learn how to expand or extend programs in the private sector that provide job training to underskilled and undereducated workers in conjunction with the public sector. The bulk of the document…

Information about the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), an independent federal agency created in 1965 to support scholarship, research, education, and public programs in the humanities, is provided in this booklet. The first part of the booklet provides information on the history, purposes, policies, and organization of NEH, and serves…