Hispanic Children, Youth, and Families [microform] : Challenges, Changes, and Employment. Joint Hearing before the Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families and the Subcommittee on Employment Opportunities of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, Ninety-Ninth Congress, Second Session
- Bib ID:
- 5479120
- Format:
- Book and Microform
- Author:
- Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families
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- [Washington, D.C.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1986
- 144 p.
- Summary:
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This hearing was held to examine the status of Hispanic children and families in the United States, with special focus on children's services, educational opportunities, training, and employment issues. Testimony and reports brought before the Committee included, in part, the following information about Hispanics: (1) higher dropout rate and lower educational attainment; (2) higher rate of students in special education programs; (3) poorer health and medical care; (4) greater population growth; (5) higher poverty rates; (6) higher unemployment rates; (7) lack of available data on many Hispanic issues; (8) inappropriateness of some minority programs for Hispanics; (9) racist population control programs targeted at Hispanics; (10) positive effect of Federal government minority business programs on Hispanics; and (11) negative effect of United States cultural influences on Hispanics. (PS)
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- Availability: Superintendent of Documents, Congressional Sales Office, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402.
- ERIC Note: Serial No. 99-150. Portions contain small print.
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- Subject:
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- Abortions
- Cultural Differences
- Disadvantaged
- Dropout Rate
- Educational Attainment
- Equal Education
- Family Planning
- Hispanic Americans
- Latin Americans
- Majority Attitudes
- Minority Group Children
- Population Growth
- Poverty
- Regional Attitudes
- School Community Relationship
- Social Discrimination
- Social Services
- Spanish Speaking
- Congress 99th Population Control Population Policies
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- Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families
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- Publication date:
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