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Advisory Council American areas Avenue Betty Furness BOOKBINDER camp Chairman Governor's Commission Church cities Committee Community Action Agency conference Congress day-care centers DELEGATE Director Economic Opportunity erty Federal Foster Grandparents funds girls going grams Head Start hope income involved Job Corps Job Corps Center Kilch kind lady live Liz Carpenter Manpower MCNAMARA meeting ment million MISS BLATT MOLLIE ORSHANSKY mothers munity N. W. Washington National Council Negro Women Neighborhood Youth Corps nomic nonwhite Office of Economic parents participate Peace Corps percent person poor poverty President problems question Robert McNamara Sargent Shriver SCHORR serve Status of Women Street Chicago Street New York summer talk teenagers tell Thank thing tion United Upward Bound VISTA volunteers War on Poverty week WICS WILLARD WIRTZ woman young women youngsters YWCA
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Page 47 - States to eliminate the paradox of poverty in the midst of plenty in this Nation by opening to everyone the opportunity for education and training, the opportunity to work, and the opportunity to live in decency and dignity.
Page 36 - Church Women United, the National Council of Catholic Women, the National Council of Jewish Women, the National Council of Negro Women and the National Board of the Young Women's Christian Association, have undertaken vigorous long-range programs to express their concern that hunger must be eliminated.
Page 7 - ... if he was under age 55. WOMEN IN POVERTY Among the poor, women outnumbered the men, 8 to 5. In the age group 65 or older, there were nearly 2 women living in poverty for every man. Aged women living alone were particularly illfavored, with more than 3 out of 5 purchasing their privacy only at the price of poverty, but whatever their age or family status the woman was poorer than the man. Those who had to double as family head and homemaker were three and one-half times as likely to be poor as...
Page 36 - AN ACT To mobilize the human and financial resources of the Nation to combat poverty in the United States.
Page 60 - Girl Scouts of the USA: 830 Third Avenue, New York, New York 10022...
Page 9 - The threshold is defined as an attempt to "specify the minimum money income that could support an average family of given composition at the lowest level consistent with the standards of living prevailing in this country.
Page 7 - ... full employment," three-fifths had no more than three children to support. For many of the poor, particularly in households headed by women, it was the inability of the family breadwinner to find a job or keep one that accounted for their plight. When the family head did not work at all in 1966, 1 out of 3 families was counted poor, compared with only 1 in 17 when the family head was on a job every week in the year. But...
Page 7 - ... that it was poor. All told, close to half the Nation's poor children were in families with at least five youngsters present, but the size and current living arrangements of families, as the census normally counts them, are sometimes the result of poverty ; they are not always the cause. Family groups with insufficient income, particularly if there is no man at the head, may share living quarters with relatives to help meet living expenses.
Page 41 - ... great social divisions that trouble the Nation. For children of white, affluent society, as well as for minorities, integrated education is essential if they are to thrive in the multi-racial world they will enter and help redeem America's promise, which school children each day are asked to recite and believe in — "One Nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
Page 7 - ... force, but that in nonpoor families. 2 in 5 were either working or looking for work. Poor families generally were larger than those better off, mainly because they included more children, not because they had more adults. And every disadvantage of the poor family was greater if the head was a woman. As one instance, in the women's families just about onefifth of all family members were preschoolers under age 6, and 6 out of 10 members were not yet aged 18.