Word: homeless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Union as the Civil War rumbled to a close. After his martyr's death his program was left in the well-meaning but bumbling hands of Andrew Johnson, who managed to organize Southern governments which accepted the war's outcome and pledged fair treatment for the poor and homeless Negro...
Then the tornadoes came. In two days, 45 twisters tore through the Midwest, most of them following three distinct paths across portions of Iowa, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan and Ohio. Capricious and unpredictable, they left 243 people dead, an estimated 5,000 injured, and countless others homeless, while the cost in property damage ran to more than $200 million...
...federal cost of some $200 million a year, basic medical care will be provided, on an outright charity basis, not only for indigents over 65, as at present, but for those of any age, such as destitute families, homeless children, the disabled and the blind...
...week's end the country's death toll was approaching 300. Some 18,000 people were homeless, and the total damage was estimated at between $50 million and $100 million. With his ministers, Frei mapped out relief and reconstruction programs, ordered an inquiry to determine whether the mining company or government inspectors were guilty of negligence in permitting the miners to live at the base of the El Cobre...
...broadening of Kerr-Mills to grant federal-state medical help not only to indigent people 65 or older, as at present, but also to certain other needy people regardless of age-those blind and disabled, members of indigent families, and homeless children. They would receive a full range of doctor and hospital services, with other benefits left to the states. The minimum federal share of the program would be raised from...