Observance of National Children's Day: Joint Hearing Before the Task Force on Human Resources of the Committee on the Budget and the Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families of the House of Representatives, One Hundred First Congress, First Session, October 3, 1989

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Page 5 - STATEMENT OF HON. JOSEPH P. KENNEDY II, A REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS FROM THE STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS Mr. KENNEDY. Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.
Page 37 - Organizations (CIO); the US Chamber of Commerce; the National Association of Manufacturers; the American Bar Association; the National Maritime Union; and others.9 The State Department was riding this tide of support.
Page 155 - Unshackled from the myth that nothing works, we can mobilize the political will to reduce the number of children hurt by cruel beginnings. By improving the prospects of the least of us, we can assure a more productive, just, and civil nation for all of us.
Page 41 - STATEMENT OF ROBERT GREENSTEIN, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, CENTER ON BUDGET AND POLICY PRIORITIES, WASHINGTON, DC Mr.
Page 135 - Poor children are three to four times more likely to drop out of school than children who are not poor.
Page 154 - Business, the Business Roundtable, the US Chamber of Commerce, the National Association of Manufacturers, the Conference Board, the American Business Conference, the US Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and the Business Higher Education Forum.
Page 53 - I appreciate the invitation to testify today. I am Robert Greenstein, Executive Director of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a...
Page 3 - Yet, despite the steady increase in public expenditures on education, we know of no national solution to keep each and every child in school until he or she has mastered the necessary skills to successfully compete in the job market.
Page 144 - It is so exciting for me to work with children who have caring adults to love them, public schools that provide for individual needs, volunteer organizations that become involved and governments who respond — at all levels. It is utterly devastating to look into the eyes of a child who has no hope, feels alienated from the American dream, and sees no future in a society that he believes has abandoned him.
Page 70 - State, and community level. It acknowledges what the business community already knows; if you want to get somewhere, you've got to plan where you want to go and how to get there. The Young Americans Act utilizes this common business sense by setting a course and establishing a plan of action for our nation's children and youth.

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