Accessibility and Effectiveness of Anti-hunger Programs: Hearings Before the Select Committee on Hunger, House of Representatives, Ninety-eighth Congress, Second Session, Hearings Held in Greenwood, MS, June 25 and San Francisco, CA, July 23, 1984 |
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administrative AFDC agencies Answer areas assistance programs babies benefits bill BILL EMERSON budget California Chairman Child Nutrition clients clinic commodities comprehensive prenatal CONGRESS costs Department disabled effective elderly eligible Federal Government feeding fiscal food assistance Food Bank food programs food service Food Stamp Program FRAISER funding grams Greenwood Health Center hearing Hispanic hospital hungry improve increase infant deaths infant mortality infant mortality rate infection inner city Leflore County low birth weight low income Lunch Program malnutrition MARGE ROUKEMA meals Medicaid MICKEY LELAND million Mississippi month mothers needy nutrition education nutrition programs PANETTA participants percent poor population poverty pregnancy pregnant women prepared statement problems Public Advocates QUESTIONS SUBMITTED reduce require response received ROUKEMA San Francisco School Lunch served social staff Task Force teenage teenage pregnancy Thank tion total live births WIC Director WIC Program
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Page 1 - When the funds are low and the debts are high And you want to smile, but you have to sigh; When care is pressing you down a bit Rest if you must, but don't you quit.
Page 1 - Success is failure turned inside out The silver tint of the clouds of doubt. And you never can tell how close you are. It may be near when it seems so far: So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit It's when things seem worst that you must not QUIT.
Page 1 - Don't give up though the pace seems slow — You may succeed with another blow. Often the goal is nearer than It seems to a faint and faltering man; Often the...
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Page 82 - Service, US Department of Agriculture, 14th Street and Independence Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20250.
Page 494 - To determine costs of marketing agricultural products in their various forms and through the various channels and to foster and assist in the development and establishment of more efficient marketing methods (including analyses of methods and proposed methods), practices, and facilities, for the purpose of bringing about more efficient and orderly marketing, and reducing the price spread between the producer and the consumer.
Page 274 - Heckler is vested with the authority to guide the nation's health policies and the power to implement existing federal health legislation, 42 USC } 3501. Specifically, the Secretary is entitled to receive reasonable assurances that certain conditions will be met prior to the disbursement of federal grants for health care pursuant to the Maternal and Child Health Program (Title V of the Social Security Act, 42 USC $ 701, et seq. ), the Adolescent Pregnancy Programs (Title VI of the 1978 Amendments...
Page 274 - USC § 254c), the Family Planning Services and Population Research Act (Title X of the Public Health Service Act 42 USC $ 300), and the Social Services Block Grant Title XX (42 USC § 1397a(a)(2)(A)).
Page 107 - In child after child we saw : evidence of vitamin and mineral deficiencies ; serious, untreated skin infections and ulcerations; eye and ear diseases, also unattended bone diseases secondary to poor food intake ; the prevalence of bacterial and parasitic disease, as well as severe anemia, with resulting loss of energy and ability to live a normally active life; diseases of the heart...
Page 502 - Give a man a fish and he eats for a day; teach a man to fish and he eats for a lifetime.