Disco Days: a Social History of the 1970'S by Richard T. Stanley

Author:Richard T. Stanley [Stanley, Richard T.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781491767962
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2015-06-19T03:00:00+00:00

• The Job Corps – to help “disadvantaged youths” learn “marketable skills.”

• Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA) – a domestic version of Kennedy’s Peace Corps where “middle-class” (or so-called “privileged”) youths volunteered to serve in various capacities in poor neighborhoods.

• Model Cities Program – Federal funds for improving blighted urban neighborhoods through “redevelopment” projects and “slum clearance.”

• Upward Bound – Federal funds for special tutoring and financial assistance for poor high school students who aspired to attend college.

• Food Stamps – Federal script redeemable for food for low-income and welfare families.

• Project Head Start – Federal funding of preschool education for children from poor families.

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