POVERTY

Addresses

Education of the Urban Poor, Senator Moynihan, 28078-28082 [18OC]

Impact of Budget on Poor, David A. Stockman, 2263 [15FE]

Amendments

Emergency Housing Assistance Act: enact (H.R. 1983), 10821 [3MY]

Homeless: provide emergency shelters (H.R. 1983), 5834 [16MR], 7899 [11AP], 8557 [14AP], 8772 [18AP], 8963 [19AP], 9620 [25AP], 9876 [27AP], 10482 [28AP], 11860, 11862, 11870, 11888, 11891, 11893, 11897 [11MY]

Temporary Emergency Food Assistance Act: enact (H.R. 3409), 23109 [4AU]

Analyses

Equal Educational Opportunity Act, 7606 [5AP]

H.R. 2023, Domestic Commodity Distribution and Food Assistance Act, 4641 [9MR]

H.R. 3409, Temporary Emergency Food Assistance Act, 23110-23112 [4AU]

H.R. 3440, Universal Telephone Service and Ratepayer Protection Act, 17793 [28JN]

S. 2016, Accounting System for Determining Benefits Under the Food Stamp Act, 29559 [27OC]

Articles and editorials

All the Hungry People, 18249 [29JN]

America's Dispossessed (series), 1327-1330 [1FE]

America's Neglected Elderly, 1763-1766 [3FE]

Benin, Togo Offer Contrasting Pictures, 25671 [23SE]

Black Professionals Begin Program to Adopt Families, 31631 [8NO]

Changes in Legal Services Corp. Eligibility Regulations, 23972 [13SE]

Children Aided in Jerusalem With a Boost From Bellevue, 22815 [4AU]

Chronic Poverty Marks Sub-Sahara's Stagnation, 24755 [19SE]

Church Nourishes Needy With Food and Counsel, 18259 [29JN]

Civilian Conservation Corp's 50th Anniversary, 8683 [14AP]

Close the Education Gap, 30577 [2NO]

Costs To Shelter Homeless in City Climbing Sharply, 26952 [3OC]

Depriving Deprived Children, 8484 [13AP]

Doctors Tell House Panel of New Data on Hunger, 29666 [27OC]

Espejo, 10464 [28AP]

Face Bleak Future of Disease, Hunger, 25218 [21SE]

Facing Hunger, 18079 [29JN]

Facts About Welfare Fraud, 17240 [23JN]

Famine in Africa (sundry), 14745-14746 [7JN]

Feeding Everybody—How Federal Food Program Grew and Grew, 26360-26365 [29SE]

Feeding Everybody—How Federal Food Programs Grew and Grew, 28881-28886 [21OC]

Food Bank Planned for Litchfield Area, 16726 [21JN]

Food for the Table, Not the Warehouse, 21545 [28JY]

For Poor Kids, Computers Are the Newest Disadvantage, 24096 [14SE]

Foxes, Chickens and Hunger, 24734 [19SE]

Getting the Food to the Poor, 15315 [9JN]

Going to Town—Does the Proposed Enterprise Zone Act Provide Adequate Incentives To Lure Private Investors Back to the Nation's Depressed Inner Cities?, 20448 [21JY]

Helping Others Is What It's About, 25736 [26SE]

Hunger in America (sundry), 14639-14644 [6JN]

Hunger Problems—Real and Imagined, 24546 [19SE]

Intermountain Health Care—Financing Hospital Treatment for the Poor, 19317 [14JY]

Legal Aid Cuts Found To Have Drastic Effects, 32527 [14NO]

Life Improves for Guatamala Indian Population, 7429 [24MR]

Lines Outside Kitchens for Needy Grow Increasingly Familiar in City, 28824 [20OC]

Mayor of Cleveland Beseeches United States for Additional Food Aid, 4301 [8MR]

Millions Face Possible Loss of Utility Service, 10977 [4MY]

More than 1,000 Physicians Offering Free Care to Unemployed, 3046 [24FE]

Myths About Poverty, 30364 [1NO]

Not by Cheese Alone, 32220 [10NO]

Of Soup Lines and the National Debt, 16696 [21JN]

Our Tax on the Poor, 23746 [12SE]

Peace, War, Poverty—Some Myths People Swear By, 284 [25JA]

People on Skid Row Get Some Help, 16922 [22JN]

Poorer, Hungrier, 8231 [12AP]

Poverty Is Winning, 22115 [2AU]

President's Perplexity, 22779 [4AU]

Reagan Vulnerable on Food Policy, 25354 [22SE]

Report From Grimes Creek—Social Security, 7920 [11AP]

Responding to Crisis, 12001 [11MY]

Single Mothers Stand on the Brink, 4912 [10MR]

Spiraling Population Cripples Africa, 24977 [20SE]

Street People and Psychiatry—An Introduction, 32775 [15NO]

Tradition of Service, 22815 [4AU]

U.S. Hunger on Rise Despite Swelling of Food Surpluses, 19777 [21JY]

Why There Are Food Lines, 7917 [11AP]

Bills and resolutions

Appropriations: emergency supplemental (see S. Con. Res. 20; H.R. 1718)

Emergency food and shelter: demonstration program (see H.R. 1396)

———provide (see S. 725)

Emergency shelter: assistance for homeless (see S. 698; H.R. 1950)

———provide (see H.R. 1983)

Food distribution and emergency shelter program: appropriate funds (see S. 451)

Homeless: grants to aid (see S. 429)

Human Needs and World Security Act: enact (see H.R. 4440)

Hunger: Federal nutrition programs to prevent (see S. Con. Res. 6; H. Con. Res. 40)

Hunger Relief Incentives Tax Act (see S. 1826)

White House Conference on the Homeless and the Hungry: establish (see H.R. 3815)

Book reviews

Old Age Public Policy Needs Harder Look, Stephen Crystal (sundry), 15768-15771 [14JN]

Letters

Accounting system for determining benefits under the Food Stamp Act (S. 2016), 29559 [27OC]

Allocation of funds to States for education of disadvantaged children, Senator Percy, 15898 [15JN]

Changes needed in welfare system: Richard Glass, 34758 [18NO]

Emergency assistance to Ethiopia (S. Res. 168): Senator Percy, 18089 [29JN]

Federally funded nutrition programs: James R. Bennett, 2985 [24FE]

FEMA emergency food and shelter program (sundry), 5321 [15MR]

Temporary Emergency Food Assistance Act (H.R. 3409): Senator Boren, 23123 [4AU]

———Senator Domenici, 23123 [4AU]

Letters of transmittal

Food Stamp Act amendments (S. 1208): Dept. of Agriculture, 10986 [4MY]

Lists

Cosponsors of H. Con. Res. 93, defining administration of title X of Public Health Service Act, 21028 [26JY]

Detroit community groups providing food to hungry, 34850 [18NO]

Emergency food and shelter program national board members, 27456 [6OC]

Institutions which would lose TRIO projects under the administration's proposal, 3443-3446 [1MR]

States supporting AFDC monthly reporting and retrospective accounting requirements revision, 23362 [4AU]

States that have moratorium on cutting off utility service during the winter, 10977 [4MY]

Memorials of legislature

AFDC pilot program: New Hampshire, 16408 [20JN]

Low-income housing programs: North Carolina, 8556 [14AP]

Natural Gas Consumer Relief Act: Michigan, 34222 [18NO]

Public assistance programs: California, 21258 [27JY]

Rental assistance: Massachusetts, 15607 [14JN]

SSI benefits: Virginia, 3250 [1MR], 4437 [9MR]

SSI program: Nevada, 8454 [13AP]

Messages

Health Incentive Reform Program, President Reagan (PM 20), 3108-3110 [28FE]

Poems

Beatitudes for Friends of the Aged, Esther M. Walker, 3860 [3MR]

Remarks in House

AFDC: monthly reporting and retrospective accounting requirements (H.R. 3836), 23362 [4AU]

Appalachian Regional Commission: authority, 19389 [14JY]

Budget: impact of cuts on housing, 6677 [22MR]

Catastrophic health insurance: provide (H.R. 2835), 10517 [28AP]

Child care facilities: need in public housing programs, 19378 [14JY]

Child support: improve collection enforcement, 18832 [12JY]

Committee on Hunger (House, Select): establish (H. Res. 15), 9086 [19AP]

Commodity distribution program: review, 22708 [3AU]

Community action programs: repeal general block grant funding (H.R. 3340), 16288 [16JN]

omprehensive Health Care Improvement Act: introduction (H.R. 3276), 15345 [9JN]

Dept. of HUD: mortgage assistance (H.R. 3943), 24969 [20SE]

Detroit, Mich.: efforts to eliminate hunger, 34850 [18NO]

Disadvantaged: improve education programs (H.R. 2266), 7444 [24MR]

Disadvantaged children: improve educational opportunities (H.R. 2397), 7606 [5AP]

Domestic Commodity Distribution and Food Assistance Act: enact (H.R. 2023), 4641 [9MR]

Domestic Commodity Distribution and Hunger Relief Act: introduction (H.R. 1365), 2003 [10FE]

Education: improve programs for disadvantaged, 30577 [2NO]

Education Consolidation and Improvement Act: voucher plan, 8484 [13AP]

Emergency Commodity Distribution Act: enact (H.R. 1513), 4887 [10MR]

Emergency Food Assistance and Commodity Distribution Act: enact (H.R. 1590), 7432 [24MR], 14636 [6JN], 16040 [21JN]

Emergency shelter: impact of funding cuts, 30160 [31OC]

———provide (H.R. 927), 7917 [11AP]

Entitlement programs: funding, 25398 [27SE], 26831 [30SE]

Equal Educational Opportunity Act: introduction (H.R. 2397), 7606 [5AP]

Federal food and nutrition programs: cuts in funding, 18249 [29JN]

Federal Supplemental Compensation Act: amend (H.R. 3409), 23495 [17AU]

Food: distribution of surplus, 7416 [24MR]

Food Assistance and Commodity Distribution Act: enact (H.R. 1590)—de la Garza amendment provisions, 13414 [23MY]

Food stamp and commmodity distribution amendments: introduction (H.R. 3089), 13414 [23MY]

Food stamp plan: elimination of certain benefits, 20143 [20JY]

———funding, 19116 [14JY]

Grain: distribute surplus, 28253 [19OC]

Harris County, Tex., Medical Society: free health care for needy, 3045 [24FE]

Health care and nutrition programs: results, 11579 [10MY]

Health Care Financing Amendments: introduction (H.R. 2577), 8865 [18AP]

Hiram College, Ohio: soup and bread meal for charity, 7416 [24MR]

Homeless: emergency shelters (H.R. 1983), 8369 [13AP], 8762-8767 [18AP], 8892, 8895, 8925-8955 [19AP], 9809, 9813, 9814 [27AP], 10466 [28AP], 10559 [2MY], 11169-11174 [5MY], 11470 [9MY], 11860-11903 [11MY], 20989 [26JY], 26951 [3OC]

———shelter program (H.R. 1330), 1863 [8FE]

Housing: program funding, 33940 [17NO]

———shortage of subsidized, 33956 [17NO]

Humanitarian assistance: President Reagan study relative to American hunger, 23342 [4AU]

Hunger: commission to study problems, 22597 [3AU]

———getting food to the poor, 15315 [9JN]

IMF: impact of certain loan agreements on the poor, 18303 [30JN]

Income-Dependent Education Assistance Act: enact (H.R. 3176), 14396-14399 [2JN]

Latin America: social impact of poverty, 9684 [26AP]

Legal services: provide for persons financially unable to obtain adequate representation (H.R. 4307), 30878 [3NO]

Legal Services Corp.: funding (H.R. 2055), 4912 [10MR]

Low-income energy assistance program: distribution of funding, 23875 [13SE]

Low-income housing: funding for energy assistance, 7853 [7AP]

———funding for weatherization (H.R. 2615), 9322 [20AP], 9564 [21AP]

LSC: impact of budget cuts, 32527 [14NO]

———impact of proposed client eligibility regulations, 23953, 23971 [13SE]

———impact of proposed eligibility guidelines, 30914 [3NO]

———impact of proposed eligibility guidelines on elderly, 28040 [17OC]

Malcolm County, Mich.: Malcomb County Fair Federal Budget Coalition hearing on hunger, 14368 [2JN]

Medicare Catastrophic Hospital Costs Protection Act: introduction (H.R. 2575), 8865 [18AP]

Medicare Voucher Act: introduction (H.R. 2576), 8865 [18AP]

Myths, 30364 [1NO]

National Cheese Institute: position on cheese disposal program, 14204 [26MY]

National Council on the Aging: impact of New Federalism, 23392 [4AU]

National family planning: define administration of program, 21028 [26JY]

Neighborhood Development Demonstration Act: introduction, 2098 [10FE], 2862 [23FE]

———introduction (H.R. 1634), 3044 [24FE]

North Dakota: wheat donations to needy by producers, 6077 [17MR]

Population: impact of increase, 25982 [27SE]

President's Task Force on Food Assistance: membership, 27421 [5OC]

Public Health Service Act: define administration of title X (H. Con. Res. 93), 21028 [26JY]

Rate increase, 28154 [18OC]

Reagan, President: impact of economic policies on older persons, 3731 [2MR]

———impact of economic policies on public assistance, 33223 [16NO]

———impact of policies on hunger, 27189 [4OC], 27421 [5OC]

Residents of retirement facilities: provide certain tax deductions (H.R. 1803), 3733 [2MR]

Salvation Army: tribute, 11116 [4MY]

Second Christian Reformed Church, Prospect Park, N.J.: citizen reach-out program, 6709 [22MR]

Services for needy: public-private initiatives, 2265 [15FE]

Social conditions: attitudes, 6367 [21MR]

Social services: funding, 2144 [14FE]

Stamford, Mich.: emergency shelter for homeless, 4876 [10MR]

Statistics: women and children, 15098 [9JN]

Storage space: utilize unused agricultural, 17673 [28JN]

Surplus food: distribute to the needy (H.R. 1365), 2003 [10FE]

———distribution, 21545 [28JY]

———distribution (H.R. 1590), 19777 [21JY]

———distribution to needy people, 18254 [29JN], 18813 [12JY]

Task force on hunger: call for report, 30263 [1NO]

Telephone service: impact of rate increases, 17669 [28JN]

———insure affordable (H.R. 3440), 17793 [28JN]

Temporaries, Inc.: food drive for needy, 33950 [17NO]

TRIO programs: impact of funding cuts on students, 3443 [1MR]

United Presbyterian Church, Camp Springs, Md.: garden project for needy, 24942 [20SE]

Universal Telephone Service and Ratepayer Protection Act: enact (H.R. 3440), 17793 [28JN]

Urban homesteading: expand program (H.R. 2150), 6056 [17MR]

Vocational rehabilitation: funding (H.R. 3520), 24259 [14SE]

Weatherization and Employment Act: enact (H.R. 2615), 9564 [21AP]

———introduction (H.R. 2615), 9322 [20AP]

Welfare: prevent overpayment and fraud, 211 [6JA]

———need to improve, 34758 [18NO]

White House Conference on the Homeless and the Hungry: convene (H.R. 3815), 23359 [4AU], 32775 [15NO]

Worcester, Mass.: free medical care to needy, 12000 [11MY]

Youth: encourage employment (H.R. 3679), 21293 [27JY]

Youth job training: study results, 10822 [3MY]

Remarks in Senate

Appalachian Transition Assistance Act: Introduction (S. 65), 628 [26JA]

Disadvantaged: educational programs, 14138 [26MY]

Educational Opportunity and Equity Act: introduction (S. 1137), 9717 [26AP]

Emergency Food and Shelter Act: introduction (S. 725), 4300 [8MR]

Emergency food and shelter program: tribute, 27455 [6OC]

Emergency Shelter for the Homeless Act: introduction (S. 689), 4086 [7MR]

Englewood and Littleton, Colo.: tribute to Meals on Wheels program, 3859 [3MR]

Ethiopia: emergency assistance, 17639 [28JN]

———emergency assistance (S. Res. 168), 18089 [29JN]

FEMA: funding for emergency food and shelter program, 5319 [15MR]

Food for children policy, 25354 [22SE]

Food policy: hunger and malnutrition problem, 22529-22531 [3AU]

Food Stamp Act: accounting system for determining benefits (S. 2016), 29558 [27OC]

Food Stamp Act amendments: introduction (S. 1208), 10982 [4MY]

Food stamp plan: income v. nutrition, 26359 [29SE]

Food Stamp Reform Act: introduction (S. 1727), 22158-22162 [2AU]

Homeless Emergency Food and Shelter Program: create (S. 451), 1710 [3FE]

Hunger Relief Incentive Tax Act: enact (S. 1826), 22998 [4AU], 27586 [6OC]

Israel: tribute to Stafford Children's Center, 22814 [4AU]

Jobs program: proposals to create, 2419 [17FE]

Low-income home emergency assistance: provide for (S. 590), 2926 [24FE]

Nutrition programs: commitment (S. Con. Res. 6), 2984 [24FE]

Pregnant women: medicaid coverage (S. 7), 466-469 [26JA]

Productive employment and humanitarian assistance: making appropriations (S. 484), 2331 [16FE]

Reagan, President: position on hunger in America, 22778 [4AU]

Surplus food: distribution program, 5282-5295 [15MR]

Temporary Emergency Food Assistance Act: enact (H.R. 3409), 23109-23125 [4AU]

Unemployment assistance: proposals, 2960 [1MR]

University of Arkansas: indigent health care, 24071 [14SE]

Utility Lifeline Rate Act: introduction (S. 1204), 10975 [4MY]

Weatherization program: eliminate, 5278 [15MR]

World Food Council: meeting, 18051 [29JN]

Reports

Award and Receipt of Child Support Payments, Bureau of the Census, 18832 [12JY]

Low-Income Energy Assistance Program, Committee for Economic Development (excerpt), 23720 [12SE]

Revised Estimates of Effects of Legislation Enacted During 1981 Affecting the Food Stamp and Child Nutrition Programs, CBO, 10984 [4MY]

Seared Hopes and Frozen Promises (summary), National Council of Senior Citizens, 2927 [24FE]

Temporary Emergency Food Assistance Act (H.R. 3409), 23112-23116 [4AU]

Urban Homesteading, Dept. of HUD (excerpt), 6057 [17MR]

Statements

Education of the Disadvantaged, Sec. of Education Terrel H. Bell (excerpt), 7606 [5AP]

Feminization of Poverty: Dorothy Ridings for the League of Women Voters (excerpt), 31625 [8NO]

Food Assistance Programs, George Graham, 27421 [5OC]

High Interest Rates and Federal Assistance Cutbacks: Melvin R. Primas, 33223 [16NO]

Hunger in America: Senator Hollings, 18079 [29JN]

Impediments to Greater Participation To Feed the Country's Poor, GAO, 7416 [24MR]

New England Meeting of Parents Without Partners, Inc., 23966 [13SE]

Older Americans Act and the President's Fiscal Year 1984 Budget Request, Representative Biaggi, 3731 [2MR]

Private Sector Initiatives To Feed America's Poor, Parker T. Williamson, 25735 [26SE]

Protective Legislation: Polly Madenwald for the National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs, 31628 [8NO]

Refining New Federalism, National Council on the Aging, 23392-23395 [4AU]

Residents for Emergency Shelter, 13661 [24MY]

Social Concerns—1983, Fall River, Mass., Catholic Diocese, Department of Social Services, 2265 [15FE]

Title IV—Older Americans Act and the Budget Cuts, Representative Biaggi, 3731 [2MR]

Utilize Unused Storage Space to House the Homeless, 17673 [28JN]

Vocational rehabilitation (sundry), 24260 [14SE]

Studies

Energy Debts—The Coming Crisis for the Poor, National Consumer Law Center, 10977-10981 [4MY]

Major Youth Experiment Yields Significant Findings, Manpower Demonstration Research Corp., 10822 [3MY]

Summaries

Emergency Commodity Distribution Act, 4888 [10MR]

H.R. 3089, Food Stamp and Commodity Distribution Amendments, 13414 [23MY]

Hearing on Hunger in America, 14636-14639 [6JN]

S. 689, Emergency Shelter for the Homeless Act, 4087-4090 [7MR]

S. 1208, Food Stamp Act Amendments, 10988-10992 [4MY]

S. 1826, Hunger Relief Incentives Tax Act, 22999 [4AU]

Tables

Accounting system for determining benefits under the Food Stamp Act (S. 2016), 29559 [27OC]

Food stamp error rates by State, 10984 [4MY]

Income and educational aid, 14399 [2JN]

Low-income energy assistance program, 23877 [13SE]

Relationship between income tax threshold and poverty level for a family of 4, 30591 [2NO]

State unemployment rates relative to the national rate (sundry), 4301 [8MR]

Tax threshold, poverty levels, and Federal tax amounts for diffrent family sizes with earnings equal to poverty level, 30592 [2NO]

Thrifty food plan amounts—48 States and the District of Columbia, 10982 [4MY]

Texts of

H.R. 1365, Domestic Commodity Distribution and Hunger Relief Act, 2003 [10FE]

H.R. 1513, Emergency Commodity Distribution Act, 4887 [10MR]

H.R. 2023, Domestic Commodity Distribution and Food Assistance Act, 4641 [9MR]

H.R. 2615, Weatherization and Employment Act, 9565 [21AP]

H.R. 3340, repeal community action programs block grant funding, 16289 [16JN]

H.R. 4289, increase in earned income tax credit, 30593 [2NO]

S. 7, medicaid coverage for pregnant women, 469 [26JA]

S. 65, Appalachian Transition Assistance Act, 628 [26JA]

S. 451, create the Homeless Emergency Food and Shelter Program, 1711 [3FE]

S. 484, making appropriations for productive employment and humanitarian assistance, 2331-2337 [16FE]

S. 1204, Utility Lifeline Rate Act, 10976 [4MY]

S. 1208, Food Stamp Act amendments, 10986-10988 [4MY]

S. 1727, Food Stamp Reform Act, 22159-22162 [2AU]

S. 1826, Hunger Relief Incentives Tax Act, 22998 [4AU]

S. 2016, accounting system for determining benefits under the Food Stamp Act, 29558 [27OC]

S. Res. 168, emergency assistance to Ethiopia, 18089 [29JN]