Rural Development, Agriculture, and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1988: Testimony of members of Congress and other interested individuals and organizationsUnited States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, and Related Agencies, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Rural Development, Agriculture, and Related Agencies U.S. Government Printing Office, 1987 - United States |
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Page 902 - That there shall be at the seat of Government a Department of Labor, the general design and duties of which shall be to acquire and diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with labor, in the most general and comprehensive sense of that word, and especially upon its relation to capital, the hours of labor, the earnings of laboring men and women, and the means of promoting their material, social, intellectual, and moral prosperity.
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Page 578 - Mr. Chairman and Members of the Committee: We thank you for the opportunity to submit this information for your study and for the record.
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Page 318 - I am here to discuss severe environmental defects in two proposed projects of the Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS). The...
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Page 357 - Non-white infants are twice as likely as white babies to die in the first year of life. Black babies are born with low weight twice as often as white babies. Black and Hispanic origin women, as well as other high risk groups such as teenage and unmarried pregnant women, have the most dramatic improvements as a result of participation in WIC. The National WIC Evaluation also showed that WIC reduces anemia among women, infants and children and improves the likelihood that . children will have a regular...
Page 357 - Brown mentions, WIC has repeatedly been proven to have a major impact in reducing the incidence of low-weight births, the leading cause of infant mortality and a major risk factor in mental retardation, birth defects and learning difficulties. Non-white infants are twice as likely as white babies to die in the first year of life. Black babies are born with low weight twice as often as white babies. Black and Hispanic origin women, as well as other high risk groups such as teenage and unmarried pregnant...
Page 75 - ... to practice law or medicine or construct a house or run a broadcast station. The public agency performing those services normally may exact a fee for a grant which, presumably, bestows a benefit on the applicant, not shared by other members of society.