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The War On Poverty Resources Web Page
Our video series, "The War On
Poverty in the 21st Century" was seen on Comcast Cable 25 produced by CAB Inc. and Community
Television of Santa Cruz County.
What
the "Good Times" said about the "War On Poverty in the 21st
Century" TV program:
Go to an Index
of Programs in the series
Poverty
and Santa Cruz County Census 2000 Facts
"Spending
proposal slashes staff, services" Santa Cruz County Sentinel, May
22, 2002 - By
JEANENE HARLICK, Sentinel
staff writer. http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/archive/2002/May/22/local/stories/02local.htm
Proposal
for A Nationwide War On The Sources of Poverty' - Lyndon B.
Johnson's Special Message to Congress, March 16, 1964 : "Because it is
right, because it is wise, and because, for the first time in our history, it is
possible to conquer poverty, I submit, for the consideration of the Congress and
the country, the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964."
The text of The
Economic Opportunity Act - From United States Statutes at Large,
volume 78. Washington D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, 1965.
508-516. Public Law 88-452 - AN ACT - To mobilize the human and financial
resources of the Nation to combat poverty in the United States. Be it
enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled. That this Act may be cited as the "Economic
Opportunity Act of 1964."
WAR
ON POVERTY, from Grolier Multimedia - The War on Poverty, declared in the
State of the Union address on Jan. 8, 1964, was the attempt of President Lyndon
B. Johnson to break the cycle of poverty affecting nearly 35 million Americans
Delegates to the 18th
World Energy Congress, held October 21-25, 2001, in Buenos Aires, Argentina,
emerged with a clear message of "energy for people, energy for peace",
a message reiterated by Argentine President Fernando de la Rua in his opening
address, when he noted that modern energy services for everyone are key to
sustainable development, harmony and peace throughout the world.
May
1998 Health, Housing, Green and Poverty Groups Join in Call for Government
Action
Twenty-six leading health,
housing, environmental, childcare and poverty organizations, trade unions and
academics have joined in a call for urgent Government action on fuel poverty and
energy efficiency. The call comes in a joint response to the Government's Green
Paper “Our Healthier Nation”. The response states that the Green
Paper's claim that “about a million homes in the UK have inadequate
standards of energy efficiency” is a “gross underestimate”. According
to the joint response:
Immigration
and the Growth of Poverty in Rural America: Agriculture-led
immigration is contributing to the growth of a new class of rural poor, as
immigrants come from Mexico to take farm jobs and then increasingly settle in
rural areas of the United States. That was the major concern of experts who met
recently at an Urban Institute conference to review the policy implications of
immigration into rural areas.
Head
Start,
U.S. educational program for disadvantaged preschool children, established under
the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964.
About
Community Action Agencies (CAAs)- From the National Association of
Community Action Agencies
Community Action Agencies (CAAs) are nonprofit private and
public organizations established under the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 to
fight America's War on Poverty. Community Action Agencies help people to help
themselves in achieving self-sufficiency. Today there are approximately 1,000
Community Action Agencies in the United States.
The Institute for Research on Poverty
(IRP) is a national, university-based center for research into the causes
and consequences of poverty and social inequality in the United States. It
is nonprofit and nonpartisan.
The
Center on Urban Poverty and Social Change, located in the Mandel School of
Applied Social Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, seeks to address the
problems of persistent and concentrated urban poverty and is dedicated to
understanding how social and economic changes affect low-income communities, and
how living in these communities affects the well-being of their residents
The
Working Poor - Families working in the low-wage labor market often struggle
to make ends meet despite their work efforts. Welfare reform has helped to draw
attention to the issues facing working families who remain in poverty, and has
blurred the distinctions between welfare recipients and the working poor. This
web page provides links to descriptive information on the working poor and their
circumstances, as well as to policy issues regarding the working poor.
For literature about poverty go
to:
For More Information Contact:
Community Action Board of Santa Cruz County, Inc.
406 Main Street, Suite 207, Watsonville, CA 95076
Tel: 831/763-2147
FAX: 831/724-3447
Internet:
info@cabinc.org
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