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Poverty and the government in America, a historical encyclopedia, [edited by] Jyotsna Sreenivasan

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Poverty and the government in America

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[edited by] Jyotsna Sreenivasan

a historical encyclopedia

v. 1. Poverty and Local Governments -- Poverty and State Governments -- Poverty and the Federal Government -- Poverty and Tribal Governments -- Chronology of the Government and Poverty -- Addams, Jane (1860-1935) -- Affirmative Action -- Agricultural Adjustment Act -- Aid to (Families with) Dependent Children -- Apprenticeship -- Bethune, Mary Mcleod (1875-1955) -- Black Panther Party -- Carey, Mathew (1760-1839) -- Child Abuse and Poverty -- Child Care and Early Childhood Education -- Child Labor Laws -- Child Labor Laws-Supreme Court Cases -- Children's Bureau -- Child Support -- Child Support Enforcement Program -- Civilian Conservation Corps -- Civil Rights Act of 1964 -- Civil Rights Movement -- Civil War Pensions -- Civil Works Administration -- Collier, John (1884-1968) -- Community Action Programs -- Comprehensive Employment and Training Act -- Contraception and Abortion -- Coughlin, Charles (1891-1979) -- Criminal Justice System and Poverty -- Debs, Eugene (1855-1926) -- Dix, Dorothea (1802-1887) -- Earned Income Tax Credit -- Economic Inequality -- Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 -- Elder Nutrition Programs -- Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 -- Emergency Food Programs -- Eugenics -- Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 -- Family and Medical Leave Act -- Family Support Act of 1988 -- Federal Emergency Relief Act -- Food Stamp Program/Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program -- Freedmen's Bureau -- Full Employment -- General Allotment Act of 1887 -- General Assistance -- George, Henry (1839-1897) -- G.I. Bill (Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944) -- Great Depression -- Great Society -- Guaranteed Annual Income -- Head Start -- Health Care for the Poor -- Higher Education Act of 1965 -- Homelessness -- Homeless Shelters -- Homestead Act of 1862 -- Home Visitation Services -- Hoover, Herbert (1874-1964) -- Hopkins, Harry (1890-1946) -- Housing, Low-Income -- Hunger and Food Insecurity -- Immigration Laws and Poverty -- Indentured Servitude -- Indian New Deal -- Indian Removal Act of 1830 -- Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 -- Indian Self-Determination -- Industrial Revolution -- International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights -- Job Corps -- Johnson, Lyndon (1908-1973) -- Juvenile Justice Systemv. 2. Kelley, Florence (1859-1932) -- Kerner Commission (National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders) -- King, Martin Luther, Jr. (1929-1968) -- Labor Unions -- Lathrop, Julia (1858-1932) -- Legal Services for the Poor -- Living-Wage Laws -- Long, Huey (1893-1935) -- Lowell, Josephine Shaw (1843-1905) -- Mann, Horace (1796-1859) -- Manpower Development and Training Act of 1962 -- Maternal and Child Health Services -- Mckinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act -- Medicaid -- Medicare -- Mental Illness and Poverty -- Minimum-Wage Laws -- Minimum-Wage Laws-Supreme Court Cases -- Model Cities -- Mothers' Pensions -- National and Community Service Trust Act of 1993 -- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People -- National Consumers League -- National Health Insurance -- National Labor Relations Act -- National Recovery Administration -- National School Lunch Act -- National Service -- National Voter Registration Act of 1963 -- National Youth Administration -- New Deal -- New Deal Cooperative Communities -- New Deal Women's Network -- Orphanages -- Outdoor Relief -- Paine, Thomas (1737-1809) -- Perkins, Frances (1880-1965) -- Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 -- Playgrounds -- Poorhouses -- -- Poor Laws, Early American -- Poor People's Campaign -- Poverty Line -- Private Charity -- The Problem of Indian Administration (1928) -- Progressive Era -- Prohibition -- Public Libraries -- Public Schools -- Public Works Administration -- Public Works Projects -- Quincy Report, 1821 -- Reconstruction Era -- Reparations for Slavery -- Riis, Jacob (1849-1914) -- Roosevelt, Eleanor (1884-1962) -- Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (1882-1945) -- Sanger, Margaret (1879-1966) -- Scientific Charity -- Seattle/Denver Income Maintenance Experiments -- Segregation Laws -- Settlement Houses -- Sheppard-Towner Maternity and Infancy Act of 1921 -- Sinclair, Upton (1878-1968) -- Slavery -- Socialism -- Social Security Act -- Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children -- Supplemental Security Income -- Supreme Court and Poverty -- Tecumseh (1768-1813) -- Teen Pregnancy Prevention -- Temporary Assistance for Needy Families -- Tennessee Valley Authority -- Termination and Relocation -- Title IX of the 1972 Educational Amendments -- Townsend Movement -- Unemployment Insurance -- United Nations Human Rights Treaties -- Universal Declaration of Human Rights -- Upward Bound/College Preparation Programs -- Urban Renewal -- Veiller, Lawrence (1872-1959) -- Vocational Education -- Voting Rights -- Voting Rights Act of 1965 -- Vouchers -- Wald, Lillian (1867-1940) -- Welfare Capitalism -- Welfare Rights Movement -- Welfare-to-Work Programs -- Woodward, Ellen Sullivan (1887-1971) -- Workers' Compensation -- Works Progress Administration