Word: preschoolers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Project Head Start focuses on preschool children and special learning problems of the poor...
Surely there are no forgotten minorities left in the U.S.? Well, there is at least one, 12 million strong, and it has every right to march downtown and protest. Trouble is, the members are not allowed to cross the street. They are preschool children, ages three to five. Unable to discern the mindlessness of Huckleberry Hound and Heckle and Jeckle, they have been forced to sit there and kill time since TV began...
Saturday, November 8 THIS WAY TO SESAME STREET (NBC, 5-5:30 p.m.). Thanks to Xerox, NBC gives a special preview of a National Educational Television series, Sesame Street, an hour-long show for preschool children starting...
Under the provisions of the Nixon welfare plan, able-bodied parents, except mothers of preschool-age children, would be required to accept "suitable" work or job training, if offered. Yet neither this program nor the proposed manpower-training act provides any means to create more jobs. "Like the welfare proposal," argued A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany, "the manpower message outlines a training mechanism but suggests no plan -and provides no funds-for turning a trainee into a job holder. It is the Government that must be the employer of last resort, and on that subject the President's proposal...
...core of the concept is the desire to get as many welfare recipients as possible working. Only mothers of preschool children and those physically or mentally incapable of holding a job would be exempted. When an ablebodied, but unemployed father applies for federal assistance under the Nixon plan, he would also have to register with a local employment service. If "suitable" work or job training is available, the applicant would have to accept. If he refused, his portion of the federal grant ($500) would be eliminated. The remaining federal funds would be made available to the mother and children through...