POVERTY

Addresses

Challenges Facing Developing Countries: Barber B. Conable, Jr., 28255-28258 [4OC]

Foreign Assistance: John F. Kennedy, 24848 [22SE]

Free the Children Program: William N. Morris, Jr., 5955-5957 [30MR]

Housing the Poor in America: James W. Rouse, 5109-5110 [24MR]

Putting the Commitment to Work: Representative Pelosi, 18951 [26JY]

Agenda

Association of Junior Leagues, 3312 [3MR]

Amendments

Family Security Act: enact (S. 1511), 14471 [14JN], 14599, 14600 [15JN], 14882, 14886, 14894, 14896, 14910, 14916, 14920, 14927, 14928, 14931, 14932, 14933, 14988-14992 [16JN]

Health: extend programs of assistance for primary care (S. 2385), 14283, 14299 [13JN], 17782 [12JY], 19650, 19666-19668 [29JY], 19673-19675 [1AU]

National School Lunch Act: amend (S. 2156), 13032, 13050 [27MY]

Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act: extending programs for the homeless (H.R. 4352), 20251-20254, 20266, 20267, 20269, 20273, 20275 [3AU], 25940-25951 [28SE]

———reauthorize programs (S. 2554), 25969 [28SE]

Analyses

CBO Report—Trends in Family Income, 1970-86: Committee on Children, Youth, and Families (House, Select), 3000-3002 [2MR]

Appointments

Conferees: H.R. 4352, Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act, 28117 [4OC], 28468 [5OC]

———S. 2385, extend programs of assistance for primary health care, 17784 [12JY]

Articles and editorials

Advocate for the Poor, 25266 [23SE]

American Civic Culture, 438 [28JA]

America's Third World, 20012-20013 [2AU], 20230-20232 [3AU]

Attack on Homelessness—Hackerman Gift Links Housing Training, 21667 [10AU]

Benefactor's Gift Brings Homes Hope, 21666 [10AU]

Better Way To Help the Low-Paid, 33449 [21OC]

Better Way To Help the Working Poor, 9890 [4MY]

Branch Campus Growth Cuts Quality, Critics Say, 12709 [26MY]

Catch-22—10-Member Family Trapped by Housing Market, Policies, 13312 [2JN]

Company Offers Free Medicine to Needy Heart Patients, 10176 [9MY]

Company To Give Heart Drugs to Needy Dallas-Area Patients, 9812 [3MY]

Contractor To Renovate 2 Vacant City Schools as Homes for Homeless, 21668 [10AU]

County Braces for More Casualties in Emergency Care, 10870 [12MY]

Devastation Beyond Measure—Refugees in Southern Africa, 7271-7274 [19AP]

Do the Homeless Have Souls?, 21267 [9AU]

Doing Business, Doing Good, 7657 [20AP]

Drug Giveaway Praised, 8766 [26AP]

Elyse Sanchez, Welfare Mother, Graduates From College, 13486 [6JN]

Emerging Understanding of the Complex Social and Political Causes of Hunger, 29657 [7OC]

Ethiopia's Auschwitz, 15480 [21JN]

Famine—A Hungry Nation at War With Its Own People, 11113 [16MY]

Fictitious Issue of the ``Jobs Gap'' and the Damage It Can Cause, 25630 [27SE]

Forcing Poverty on AIDS Patients, 23718 [14SE]

Foundations Expand Family Planning Aid Abroad, 23690 [13SE]

Getting Rich by Housing the Needy—How the Homeless Bought a Rolls for Cornelius Pitts, 15626-15627 [22JN]

Gift of Hope—Generous Couple Aids Baltimore's Homeless, 21666 [10AU]

Give Welfare Reform a Chance To Break the Cycle of Poverty, 31146 [14OC]

Governors and Poor Children, 17820 [12JY]

Half the Nation's Children Born Without a Fair Chance—An Issue for the No-Issue Campaign, 31758 [19OC]

Has America Lost Its Commitment to Housing?, 1181 [4FE]

Helping Small Firms Afford Health Insurance, 32146 [20OC]

Helping the Homeless, 2412 [23FE]

Helping the Working Poor, 9891 [4MY]

His Irish Eyes Are Smiling—Brother Mathias Tends His Flock, 5544 [29MR]

Homeless—Brick by Brick, 32385 [20OC]

Homelessness, 1181 [4FE]

Hope for the Homeless, 5541 [29MR]

Hospital Shuts Its Emergency Room; Ripple Effect Feared, 10870 [12MY]

Housing Authority May Sell 658 Units to Tenant Group, 18478 [14JY]

Housing Crisis Grips Low-Income Women, 29691 [11OC]

Housing Squeeze Has a Ripple Effect—Communities and Businesses Pay a Price Because of Crunch, 12481 [25MY]

Hungry Children Cannot Wait, 940 [3FE]

``Invisible'' Indian Colleges, 18388 [14JY]

Krucky's Deep Concern for Fellow Hawaiians Noted, 15221 [20JN]

Kupuna Begins Life at 60 in the Computer Lane, 15221 [20JN]

Let's Restore the Minimum Wage, 3984 [15MR]

Messages From a Welfare Mom, 14938 [16JN]

National Initiatives for Care of the Medically Needy, 29131-29134 [6OC]

Needy To Receive Free Heart Drugs—Pharmaceutical Company To Give Medicine to People Who Cannot Afford It, 9795 [3MY]

Network for Feeding Poor Rooted in Surplus Wheat—Minnesota Activist Fears Program's End, 8364 [21AP]

Nowhere To Go, The Plight of Aging-Out Youth in New Jersey, 24007 [15SE]

Ohio Diesel Praised as Model School, 12712 [26MY]

Out of Luck—Unemployment Tops 25 Percent in Some Regions Mired in Deep Poverty, 8537 [22AP]

Peace Corps' New Frontier, 32498 [21OC]

Petri Gaining Support for Tax Credit Changes, 9896 [4MY]

Pharmaceutical Firm Offers Free Drugs to District Needy, 9171 [27AP]

Poor Nations Plagued With AIDS Pose Haunting Ethical Questions, 16350 [29JN]

Priest Helps Focus—HOPE Live Its Name, 4823 [22MR]

Raising Minimum Wage Helps Poor Very Little, Professor Argues, 9892 [4MY]

Raising Minimum Wage May Hurt Those It Seeks To Help, 9896 [4MY]

Reagan Housing Policy Fosters Homelessness—Coalition Study Cites Impact on Young Families, 10387 [10MY]

Relief Groups Say Their Ouster May Spur Ethiopia Rights Abuses, 11113 [16MY]

Renovated Godsend Houses Families in Transition, 21665 [10AU]

Renovated School Will Shelter Homeless Families, 21667 [10AU]

Rescue Plan for Africa, 15145 [17JN]

Rev. Mozel Sanders, 25267 [23SE]

School Breakfast Seems To Boost Performance, 9912 [4MY]

School Daze Kills Hopes of Family, 12708-12709 [26MY]

Schools Dredge for Students—Poor Readers, Retarded Signed Up, Get Guaranteed Loans, 12712-12713 [26MY]

Searle Offers Heart Drugs Free to Poor, 7657 [20AP]

``Self-Interest and the Common Weal''—Focusing on the Bottom Half, 12452-12456 [25MY]

Senate Panel Backs Welfare Restructuring—Education, Training for Jobs Stressed, 8368 [21AP]

Senate Panel Clears Welfare Overhaul Despite Threat of White House Veto, 8369 [21AP]

Sending Child Care to Work, 33473 [21OC]

Separate and Unequal—A View From the Bottom, 3282 [3MR]

St. Elmo, 13949 [9JN]

Study Says Minimum Wage Increases Tied to Poverty, 9895 [4MY]

Tinkering With Welfare? No, It's a Consensus: Senator Cochran, 14935 [16JN]

Tony Hall—Champion of Breakfasts and Other Meals for the Hungry, 2452 [24FE]

Treating the Homeless Veteran, 9447-9449 [28AP]

Troubled Family Put in Spotlight, 9979 [5MY]

25 Wars Are Still Going On, 13963 [9JN]

Urban Development Action Grant Program, 17653 [12JY]

Washington, Save Your Children! We Have Created a Blood-Soaked Wasteland of Despair, Where Our Kids Feel Worthless, 1451-1453 [16FE]

We Pay Tuition Default—U.S. Picks Up Tab at Trade Schools, 12710-12711 [26MY]

When Congress Takes Care of Kids, 19600 [29JY]

With Funds for Abortion Cut, Births to Poor Women Soar, 14647 [16JN]

Working, but Still Poor, 33445-33447 [21OC]

Working Mother Is Now Norm, Study Shows, 33473 [21OC]

Bills and resolutions

AFDC: improving programs for the homeless (see H.R. 4237)

Africa: efforts to resolve food emergency (see H. Con. Res. 305)

Aged: employment in child care for low-income families (see H.R. 4614)

Agriculture: distribute surplus crops to poor (H.R. 4789) (see H.R. 4789)

Banks and banking: access to check cashing services for certain persons (see S. 2110)

Child Nutrition Act: amend to ensure homeless women and children access to supplemental food program (see H.R. 4780)

Ethiopia: humanitarian assistance (see H.J. Res. 547)

Global Poverty Reduction Act: enact (see S. 2454; H.R. 4277)

Health: extend programs of assistance for primary care (see S. 2385)

Homeless: Dept. of HUD buildings as shelter (see H.R. 4733)

———expanding the affordable, decent housing supply (see H.R. 5046)

———funding to States and local urban governments for housing and related activities (see H.R. 4725)

———housing assistance (see H.R. 4024)

———reauthorize certain social services (see S. 2742)

———use of surplus Federal property to assist (see H.R. 5251)

Homeless Relief Incentive Act: enact (see H.R. 4760)

Housing: apply maximum economic rents to residents of public housing (see H.R. 5351)

———expand and preserve the permanent, affordable supply (see H.R. 4990)

———preservation of low-income housing (see H.R. 5252)

———use of vouchers to assist low-income families (see H.R. 4105)

Hunger Prevention Act: technical correction (see S. 2885)

Interagency Council on the Homeless: reauthorizing appropriations (see S. 2607)

Library Improvement Act: enact (see S. 2579)

McKinney Homeless Assistance Act: reauthorize programs (see S. 2554)

Medicaid: care for low-income individuals (see H.R. 5320)

Mexican Americans: improve housing and community development in border region (see H.R. 5462)

National Indian Center for Research in Vocational-Technical Training: designate to promote education and economic development (see S. 2834)

National School Lunch Act: amend (see S. 2156)

———require eligibility based on OMB nonfarm income poverty guidelines (see H.R. 4306)

Neighborhood Reinvestment Corp.: authorizing appropriations (see H.R. 5489)

Public Health Service Act: health services for the homeless (see H.R. 4003)

Public Housing Drug Elimination Act: enact (see S. 2584)

Public Housing Gateway Act: enact (see H.R. 4899)

Public welfare: medical needs of certain recipients (see H.R. 4033)

Social Security Act: coverage of certain pregnant women and infants (see S. 2046)

Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act: extending housing and shelter programs for the homeless (see H.R. 4351, 4352)

Taxation: low-income housing credit (see H.R. 4678)

Telephone: free service for disadvantaged (see H. Res. 351)

Temporary Emergency Food Assistance Program: effective means of distributing surplus commodities to needy (see S. Res. 413)

Washington, DC, Welfare Association, Inc.: relief (see H.R. 4385)

Books

``Bible'', 2452 [24FE]

Comments

When Bob died homeless, John J. Evangelisti, 32372 [20OC]

Communiques

Global survival of children: President Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, 14170 [10JN]

———U.N., 14170 [10JN]

Essays

Abortion Ethics: Mary C. Segers, 14767 [15JN]

Little-Known Story About Herbert Hoover—The Early Days in Australia: William Yarmy, 13667 [8JN]

Explanations

Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act technical corrections, 25990 [28SE]

Letters

Assistance to the homeless, Andy Barr, 9498 [28AP]

———Representative Leland, 13632 [7JN]

———Scott Hastings, Jr., 26848 [29SE]

———Senator Chiles, 2412 [23FE]

Cost of raising the minimum wage: James C. Miller III, 9889 [4MY]

Family Security Act: A. Sidney Johnson and Stephen Heintz, 14260 [13JN]

———Otis R. Bowen, Sec. of HHS, Ann D. McLaughlin, Sec. of Labor, Richard E. Lyng, Sec. of Agriculture, and James C. Miller III, OMB, 8678 [26AP]

———Thomas Kean, Governor of New Jersey, 14879 [16JN]

Homeless in Williamstown, NJ: Representative Florio, 9979 [5MY]

Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program: Madeleine M. Kunin, Governor of Vermont, 19031 [27JY]

LSC appropriations: Armand Derfner, 18978 [27JY]

———Robert D. Evans, ABA, 18977 [27JY]

Multifamily housing construction: Dale Stuard, National Association of Home Builders, 16478 [29JN]

National School Lunch Act amendments consideration: Representative Hawkins, 10304 [10MY]

———Representative de la Garza, 10304 [10MY]

Opening of Valley Lodge Medical Clinic: Representative Rangel, 6244 [31MR]

Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act: Larry Best, 20256 [3AU]

———Maria Foscarinis, 20256 [3AU]

Urban Development Action Grant Program: Arthur Holland, U.S. Conference of Mayors, 17654 [12JY]

———Pamela Plumb, National League of Cities, 17654 [12JY]

World Bank's antipoverty efforts: Barber B. Conable, Jr., 19236 [27JY]

———several Members of Congress, 19236 [27JY]

Memorandums

Native American Representation in the Emergency Food and Shelter National Board Program, 25994 [28SE]

Memorials of legislature

Colorado, 3869 [15MR], 4571 [21MR]

Idaho, 14018 [9JN]

New Hampshire, 14019 [9JN]

Pennsylvania, 8568 [25AP], 18925 [26JY], 19756 [1AU]

Messages

Report of ACTION Agency: President Reagan, 3765 [14MR]

Newsletters

New Plan Helps Families Make Ends Meet, Representative Nancy L. Johnson, 9896 [4MY]

Petitions

Hunger and homeless: Boston, MA, 15723 [22JN]

———U.S. Conference of Mayors, 15471 [21JN]

Mississippi Choctaw Indians economic conditions: Neshoba County, MS, 23951 [15SE]

Press releases

Petri announces legislation for working poor, 5847 [30MR]

Proclamations

World Habitat Day: Javier Perez de Cuellar, 27982 [3OC]

Remarks in House

Abortion: prohibit medicaid reimbursement, 14769 [15JN]

Affordable Housing Act: enact (H.R. 4900), 16748 [6JY]

Africa: efforts to resolve food emergency (H. Con. Res. 305), 11760 [19MY]

———famine, 940 [3FE]

———population control, 25065 [22SE]

Aged: employment in child care for low-income families (H.R. 4614), 11263 [17MY], 11360 [17MY]

Agriculture: distribute surplus crops to poor (H.R. 4789), 14160 [10JN]

Allentown, PA: commend Neighborhood Housing Services Program, 14167 [10JN]

America the Beautiful Fund: tribute to Operation Green Plant, 15893 [23JN]

Arts: Homeless in America—A Photographic Project at Corcoran Gallery of Art, 6243 [31MR]

Asbestos: cleaning done by homeless workers, 20356 [3AU]

Association of Junior Leagues: report on homelessness, 3311 [3MR]

Bass/Ticketmaster: donation from World Series ticket sales to California Homeless Coalition, 33478 [21OC]

Blacks: rate of poverty, 33427 [21OC]

Burton Neighborhood Housing Services: tribute, 14164 [10JN]

Caribbean nations: improvement in health, nutrition, and education of children in poorest countries, 30632 [13OC]

Central America: improvement in health, nutrition, and education of children in poorest countries, 30632 [13OC]

Child care: IRS ruling on certain contracts with county administration, 31157 [14OC]

———liberal and conservative positions, 19123 [27JY]

Children: response of certain Governors to social conditions, 17820 [12JY]

Dept. of Agriculture: anniversary of Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program, 28240 [4OC]

Dept. of HUD: tribute to National Federation of Federal Employees, 15478 [21JN]

Developing countries: commend Youth With a Mission organization for assistance, 3524 [8MR]

———family planning and population control, 23690 [13SE]

District of Columbia: violence among black youth, 1451 [16FE]

Donated Dental Care Services: tribute, 15726 [22JN]

Education: school breakfast program, 9912 [4MY]

Employment: jobs for the homeless, 4082 [16MR]

Ethiopia: civil liberties violations, 6609, 6610 [13AP]

———political and economic conditions, 11414-11416 [18MY]

Families: victims, 13312 [2JN]

Family Security Act: enact (S. 1511), 18071-18074 [13JY]

Food Bank Council: tribute, 9181 [27AP]

Fountain Valley, CA: low-income housing project, 8869 [26AP]

G.D. Searle & Co.: Patients in Need Program, 9171 [27AP]

Global Poverty Reduction Act: enact (H.R. 4277), 5659, 5679 [29MR]

Greensboro, NC: tribute to Habitat for Humanity House, 24872 [22SE]

Habitat for Humanity (organization): tribute, 17828 [12JY]

Hall, Representative Tony P.: feeding the poor and hungry, 2452 [24FE]

Health care, 29131 [6OC]

———extend programs of assistance for primary care (S. 2385), 17780-17784 [12JY], 19673, 19675 [1AU]

———extend programs of assistance for primary care (S. 2385), appointment of conferees, 17784 [12JY]

Homeless: consolidate programs, 20255 [3AU]

———death of a child, 23414 [9SE]

———Dept. of HUD building as shelters, 25055 [22SE]

———expanding the affordable, decent supply of housing (H.R. 5046), 18454 [14JY]

———funding to States and local urban governments for housing and related activities (H.R. 4725), 13213, 13220 [1JN]

———health care services (H.R. 4003), 2489 [24FE]

———housing assistance, 1181 [4FE], 16748 [6JY], 33531 [21OC]

———housing assistance (H.R. 4024), 2552 [25FE]

———impact on families, 13189 [1JN]

———portion of public buildings availabla as shelter (H.R. 4733), 10386 [10MY], 13320 [2JN]

Homeless Relief Incentive Act: enact (H.R. 4760), 13796 [8JN]

Housing: expand and preserve the permanent, affordable supply (H.R. 4990), 17570 [11JY]

———impact of economy on low-income home buyers, 12481 [25MY]

———preservation of low-income housing (H.R. 5252), 22722 [7SE]

———record of Republican administration, 29686 [11OC]

———tax incentives, 28982 [6OC]

———use of vouchers to assist low-income families (H.R. 4105), 3567 [8MR]

Hunger: children in low-income families, 31984 [19OC]

Hunger Prevention Act: technical correction (S. 2885), 32268 [20OC]

Job Enhancement for Families Act: improve economic incentives, 2506 [25FE]

Latin America: report on economic conditions, 15485 [21JN]

Lawyers' Campaign Against Hunger: tribute, 15015 [16JN]

Lighthouse (organization): tribute, 17827 [12JY]

LSC: reduced funding, 9055 [27AP]

Meals on Wheels America: establishment, 14508 [14JN]

Medicaid: care for low-income individuals (H.R. 5320), 24346 [16SE], 24716 [20SE]

Mexican Americans: improve housing and community development in border region (H.R. 5462), 30454-30460 [13OC]

———improve housing and community development in border region (H.R. 5462), engrossment correction, 30561 [13OC]

Minimum wage level, 3984 [15MR], 20354 [3AU]

National Academy of Sciences: report on homelessness, 24721 [20SE]

National Neighborhood Housing Services Week: observance, 13942-13950 [9JN]

National School Lunch Act: amend (S. 2156), 14205 [13JN]

———require eligibility based on OMB nonfarm income poverty guidelines (H.R. 4306), 10299-10305 [10MY], 11368 [17MY]

Neighborhood Housing Services: tribute, 13954 [16JN]

Neighborhood Reinvestment Corp.: authorizing appropriations (H.R. 5489), 29606 [7OC]

New York, NY: commend Commodities Exchange Center for helping needy, 2468 [24FE]

———Hamilton-Madison House anniversary, 26854 [29SE]

———housing shortage, 8402 [21AP]

Northern Ohio Patrolmen's Benevolent Association: National Day of Hunger observance, 32402 [20OC]

Opportunities Industrialization Centers of America, Inc.: employment and training assistance for poor and homeless, 8863 [26AP]

Pasadena, CA: tribute to Foothill Area Community Services, 17291 [7JY]

Philadelphia, PA: tribute to Community Care Center of Northeast, 7519 [19AP]

Pinellas County, FL: tribute to Project Hope, 11361 [17MY]

Public Housing Gateway Act: enact (H.R. 4899), 15890 [23JN]

Public utilities: low-income home energy assistance program, 3623 [9MR]

Public welfare: medical needs of certain recipients (H.R. 4033), 2555 [25FE]

Quayle, Senator: student loans for disadvantaged, 23295 [9SE]

Queens County, NY: Harvest Against Hunger, 5426 [28MR]

Rural areas: economic conditions, 20011 [2AU]

Salvation Army/Safeway Stores: hunger project, 17307 [7JY], 17844 [12JY]

Shelby County, TN: Free the Children Program, 5955 [30MR]

Social Security: prohibit medicaid reimbursement for abortion, 14766 [15JN]

Southern California Edison Co.: assistance to low-income customers, 32003 [19OC]

Springfield, IL: assistance to the homeless, 9979 [5MY]

St. Louis, MO: tenant buyout of public housing project, 18478 [14JY]

Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act: extending assistance for the homeless (H.R. 4352), 20225 [3AU], 20226 [9AU], 20245 [4AU], 20277 [3AU], 29629 [7OC]

———extending assistance for the homeless (H.R. 4352), appointment of conferees, 28117 [4OC]

———extending assistance for the homeless (H.R. 4352), conference report, 31802-31815, 31861 [19OC], 32384 [20OC]

———extending assistance for the homeless (H.R. 4352), permission to file conference report, 30133 [12OC], 30472 [13OC]

———extending housing and shelter programs for the homeless (H.R. 4351), 6256 [31MR]

Technoserve, Inc.: tribute, 9494 [28AP]

Telephone: free service for disadvantaged (H. Res. 351), 28590 [5OC]

U.N.: International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women, 12749 [26MY]

Volunteer workers: United Way Services anniversary, 2542 [25FE]

Washington State Governor's Task Force on Hunger: survey, 31984 [19OC]

Williamstown, NJ: assistance to the homeless, 9979 [5MY]

World Bank: combat world poverty, 19235 [27JY]

World Food Day: observance, 30631 [13OC]

———teleconference with focus on Africa, 30631 [13OC]

World Habitat Day: observance, 27981 [3OC], 28251 [4OC]

Remarks in Senate

AFDC: restructure (H.R. 1720), 31758 [19OC]

AFDC Employment and Training Reorganization Act: enact (S. 1655), 14860 [16JN]

Africa: hunger and disease in southern region, 6199 [31MR]

Aged: long-term health care policy, 28959 [6OC]

Agriculture: assistance to low-income workers in drought emergency areas, 19335 [28JY]

Appropriations: making supplemental (H.J. Res. 490), 5541 [29MR]

Banks and banking: access to check cashing services for certain persons (S. 2110), 2676 [29FE]

Community Action Agencies: tribute, 32494, 32495 [21OC]

Developing countries: U.S. assistance in projects, 11954 [23MY]

Education: abuses in Ohio proprietary schools, 12707 [26MY]

———quality in inner-city urban schools, 4955 [23MR]

———transition to workplace, 12451 [25MY]

Fair Housing Act: anniversary of enactment, 6313 [11AP]

Family Security Act: enact (S. 1511), 8366-8368 [21AP], 8677 [26AP], 13486 [6JN], 14119 [10JN], 14226 [13JN], 14395-14412 [14JN], 14870, 14908, 14934-14968 [16JN], 15147 [17JN], 15210, 15226 [20JN]

———enact (S. 1511), unanimous-consent agreement, 14423 [14JN]

Food relief: IRS regulations on charitable donations, 24014 [15SE]

———tax deductions for charitable donations, 24849 [22SE]

G.D. Searle & Co.: Patients in Need Program, 10273 [10MY]

———tribute, 7657 [20AP], 8766 [26AP]

Global Poverty Reduction Act: enact (S. 2454), 13002 [27MY], 19959 [2AU]

Habitat for Humanity: tribute, 29833 [11OC], 30437 [13OC]

Hawaii: computer training for economically disadvantaged, 15221 [20JN]

Health: extend programs of assistance for primary care (S. 2385), 14298 [13JN], 19438 [28JY], 19665-19669 [29JY]

Health insurance: lack of coverage for families, 32145 [20OC]

Homeless: housing assistance, 2412 [23FE]

———status, 21267 [9AU]

Housing: rehabilitation of low-income units, 17698 [12JY]

———replacement of demolished public units, 17697 [12JY]

Hunger: plight of poor, 1847-1850 [19FE]

Hunger Prevention Act: technical correction (S. 2885), 29945 [12OC]

Indians: coverage under Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act, 25993 [28SE]

———higher education, 18388 [14JY]

Interagency Council on the Homeless: reauthorizing appropriations (S. 2607), 21991 [11AU], 28468 [5OC], 30431 [13OC]

———reauthorizing appropriations (S. 2607), amendment in the nature of a substitute, 21575 [10AU]

Job Enhancement for Families Act: enact (S. 2658), 29719 [11OC]

Library Improvement Act: enact (S. 2579), 16145 [28JN]

LSC: appropriations, 18975-18980 [27JY]

McDonough Organization for Respect and Equality for People: tribute, 18347 [14JY]

Minimum wage level, 19657 [29JY], 32611 [21OC]

Montpelier, VT: Main Street Middle School's food policy project, 13473 [6JN]

Morrow Senior High School, GA: program to assist homeless, 19104 [27JY]

National Indian Center for Research in Vocational-Technical Training: designate to promote education and economic development (S. 2834), 25687 [27SE]

National School Lunch Act: amend (S. 2156), 3452 [4MR], 13050-13052 [27MY]

Peace Corps: increase in volunteers from business sector, 32497 [21OC]

Public Housing Drug Elimination Act: enact (S. 2584), 16152 [28JN]

Public welfare: reform, 5254 [25MR], 25641 [27SE]

Social Security: coverage of certain pregnant women and infants (S. 2046), 1109 [4FE]

———replace AFDC program with a comprehensive program of mandatory child support and work training (S. 1511), 1768 [18FE]

St. Vincent de Paul Center: tribute, 27772 [3OC]

Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act: amend, 21991 [11AU]

———extending assistance for the homeless (H.R. 4352), 25988-26012 [28SE]

———extending assistance for the homeless (H.R. 4352), appointment of conferees, 28468 [5OC]

———extending assistance for the homeless (H.R. 4352), conference report, 31541 [18OC], 32020-32024 [20OC]

Temporary Emergency Food Assistance Act: extend (S. 2244), 6147 [31MR]

Urban Development Action Grant Program: extend, 17656 [12JY]

World Habitat Day: observance, 28331 [5OC]

Youth services: need for Federal, State, and local government assistance, 24007 [15SE]

Reports

Features in Kitchen for Handicapped: Committee on the Judiciary, 16476 [29JN]

Homelessness: National Academy of Sciences, 24721 [20SE]

Increasing the Minimum Wage—A Risky Way to Reduce Poverty: Ronald B. Mincy, 19657 [29JY]

Montpelier Food Policy—A Project by the Sixth Grade Class of the Main Street Middle School, 13473 [6JN]

National Federation of Federal Employees Efforts on Housing: Richard Pace, 15478 [21JN]

New Perspectives on Debt, Trade, and Investment—Key to U.S.-Latin American Relations, 15486 [21JN]

Prevention and Control of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome: AMA, 16478 [29JN]

Still Far From the Dream—Recent Developments in Black Income, Employment, and Poverty, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, 33428 [21OC]

Supplementary Statement on Health Care for Homeless People: Ellen L. Bassuk, William R. Breakey, A. Alan Fischer, Charles R. Halpern, Gloria Smith, Louisa and Nathan Stark, Bruce Vladeck, and Phyllis Wolfe, 29689 [11OC]

Reports by conference committees

Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act Amendments (H.R. 4352), 30564-30597 [13OC]

Reports filed

Assistance for the Homeless (H.R. 4352), Consideration: Committee on Rules (H. Res. 508) (H. Rept. 100-813), 19860 [2AU]

Assistance for Primary Health Care: Committee on Labor and Human Resources (S. 2385) (S. Rept. 100-343), 11018 [13MY]

Eligibility for Free Lunches Based on the Nonfarm Income Poverty Guidelines Prescribed by OMB: Committee on Education and Labor (H.R. 4306) (H. Rept. 100-606), 9975 [5MY]

Equal Access to Health Care: Committee on Government Operations (H. Rept. 100-531), 5357 [28MR]

Family Security Act: Committee on Finance (S. 1511) (S. Rept. 100-377), 12982 [27MY]

Food-for-Peace Program Management: Committee on Government Operations (H. Rept. 100-537), 5653 [29MR]

Free Telephone Service for Disadvantaged: Committee on Energy and Commerce (H. Res. 351) (H. Rept. 100-1023), 27328 [30SE]

Interagency Council on the Homeless Appropriations Reauthorization: Committee on Governmental Affairs (S. 2607), 21588 [10AU]

Just Saying No Is Not Enough—HUD's Inadequate Response to the Drug Crisis in Public Housing: Committee on Government Operations (H. Rept. 100-702), 14741 [15JN]

National Family Caregivers Week: Committee on the Judiciary (S.J. Res. 278), 28359 [5OC]

National School Lunch Act Amendment: Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry (S. 2156), 8640 [25AP]

Social Services for the Homeless: Committee on Labor and Human Resources (S. 2742) (S. Rept. 100-482), 21912 [11AU]

———Committee on the Judiciary (H.R. 1158) (H. Rept. 100-711), 15286 [20JN]

Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act Programs Extension: Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs (H.R. 4351) (H. Rept. 100-741), 16517 [29JN]

———Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs (H.R. 4352) (H. Rept. 100-718), 16517 [29JN], 15721 [22JN]

———Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs (S. 2554) (S. Rept. 100-393), 15563 [22JN]

———Committee on Ways and Means (H.R. 4352) (H. Rept. 100-718), 19554 [28JY]

———Conference Report on H.R. 4352 (H. Rept. 100-1089), 30598 [13OC]

Reports to constituents

Hamilton, Lee H.: Housing Policy in the Nineties, 12752 [26MY]

Resolutions by organizations

Oakland Housing Authority Day: Oakland, CA, City Council, 33518 [21OC]

Statements

Bradley Amendment To Raise the Earned Income Tax Credit Phase-In Rate to 15 %: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, 29717 [11OC]

Children and Families in Poverty—The Struggle to Survive: Representative Miller, 3000 [2MR]

Economic Opportunity Act: Lyndon B. Johnson, 438 [28JA]

Fair Housing Act: President Reagan, 19724 [1AU]

Fasting: Cesar Chavez, 19997 [2AU]

Pledge to the Homeless: Representative Gilman, 20247 [3AU]

Tribute to Dept. of HUD's National Federation of Federal Employees: John F. Kennedy, 15478 [21JN]

Welfare Reform, 438 [28JA]

———Senator Specter (1986), 14398-14405 [14JN]

What the Homeless Lobby Doesn't Want You to Know: Federal Task Force on the Homeless, 15628 [22JN]

Studies

California Program for the Homeless Mentally Disabled, 26002-26007 [28SE]

Measuring Racial Discrimination in American Housing Markets, 19716 [1AU]

Summaries

Committee on Governmental Affairs Substitute to S. 2607, 21576, 21579 [10AU]

Family Security Act (S. 1511), 14251, 14252 [13JN], 15147 [17JN]

Public Welfare Medical Needs of Certain Recipients (H.R. 4033), 2556 [25FE]

Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act Amendments (conference report), 31803, 31804 [19OC]

Twin Cities Neighborhood Housing Services, Inc.—An Overview, 13943 [9JN]

World Food Day Teleconference, 9977, 9978 [5MY]

Tables

AFDC and survivors insurance benefit payments, 8366 [21AP], 14249 [13JN]

Homeless assistance programs, 2412 [23FE], 19042 [27JY]

Major program eliminations or reductions in President's budget, 10432 [11MY]

Poverty rates, by age, 1966-86, 14249 [13JN]

Schoolchildren receiving welfare assistance, 14249 [13JN]

Testimonies

Making Welfare Recipients More Self-Sufficient: Robert D. Reischauer, 9888 [4MY]

Texts of

H. Res. 351, free telephone service for disadvantaged, 28590 [5OC]

H. Res. 477, consideration of H.R. 1158, revise procedures for enforcement of fair housing, 15653 [22JN]

H.R. 1158, Fair Housing Act amendments, 19902-19907 [2AU]

H.R. 1720, Family Security Act, 14948-14968 [17JN]

H.R. 4024, housing assistance for the homeless, 2552 [25FE]

H.R. 4277, Global Poverty Reduction Act, 5679 [29MR]

H.R. 4306, amend National School Lunch Act to require eligibility based on OMB nonfarm income poverty guidelines, 10299 [10MY]

H.R. 4899, Public Housing Gateway Act, 15890 [23JN]

H.R. 5252, Low-Income Housing Preservation Act, 22722-22725 [7SE]

H.R. 5389, disaster assistance to Bangladesh, 28170 [4OC]

H.R. 5462, U.S.-Mexico Border Region Housing and Community Development Act, 30455 [13OC]

H.R. 5489, authorizing appropriations for the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corp., 29606 [7OC]

S. 1511, Family Security Act, 14226 [13JN]

S. 2046, Social Security Act coverage of certain pregnant women and infants, 1110 [4FE]

S. 2156, amend National School Lunch Act, 3452 [4MR]

S. 2156, National School Lunch Act, 13052 [27MY], 14205 [13JN]

S. 2244, extend Temporary Emergency Food Assistance Program funding, 6147 [31MR]

S. 2245, use of surplus dairy products for Temporary Emergency Food Assistance Program, 6148 [31MR]

S. 2385, extend programs of assistance for primary health care, 14300-14302 [13JN], 17780-17782 [12JY], 19665 [29JY]

S. 2454, Global Poverty Reduction Act, 13003 [27MY]

S. 2584, Public Housing Drug Elimination Act, 16153 [28JN]

S. 2834, National Indian Center for Research in Vocational-Technical Training, 25688 [27SE]

S. 2885, technical correction to the Hunger Prevention Act, 32268 [20OC]

S. Res. 413, distribution of surplus commodities through the Temporary Emergency Food Assistance Program, 7267 [19AP]