Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Oversight and Subcommittee on Public Assistance and Unemployment Compensation of the Committee on Ways and Means House of Representatives, Ninety-Eight Congress, First Season

Bücher

Angebote / Angebote:

Excerpt from Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Oversight and Subcommittee on Public Assistance and Unemployment Compensation of the Committee on Ways and Means House of Representatives, Ninety-Eight Congress, First Season: October 18, November 3, 1983 The Honorable Charles B. Rangel (d., N Chairman of the Subcommittee on Oversight and the Honorable Harold Ford (d., Tenn), Chairman of the Subcommit tee on Public Assistance and Unemployment Compensation of the Committee on Ways and Means, announced today that the Subcommittees will hold a joint hearing to examine the reasons for the increase in the poverty rate from percent in 1978 to the recently announced rate of 15 percent. Further details and specific dates for the hearings will be announced in a subsequent press release. The hearing will focus on an assessment of the reasons for the recent increases in poverty. For example, to what extent is the increase related to the recession, demo graphic trends, budget reductions and the decline over the past ten years in the real (after inflation) level of public assistance benefits. A review of the 881 program and its role in reducing poverty will also be examined. The hearing will also assess the extent to which improvement in the economy will contribute to a decrease in the poverty rate and examine what changes in the law would yield the greatest de crease in poverty (per dollar spent). Other measures of poverty and their recent trends will also be investigated. The Subcommittees will be receiving testimony from invited witnesses only. Those witnesses will include representatives from the Office of Management and Budget, the Department of Health and Human Services and the Bureau of the Census, the Congressional Budget Office, the Institute for Research on Poverty, and State public assistance experts. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.