The rights of the poor : the authoritative ACLU guide to poor people's rights / Helen Hershkoff, Stephen Loffredo.
1997
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Title
The rights of the poor : the authoritative ACLU guide to poor people's rights / Helen Hershkoff, Stephen Loffredo.
Published
Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [1997]
Copyright
©1997
Call Number
KF3720.Z9 H47 1997
ISBN
0809320916 (cloth : alk. paper)
0809321173 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0809321173 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Description
xvi, 408 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)35280830
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references.
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Poor
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Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
I
Income Support
1
Aid to Families with Dependent Children
4
Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Block Grant
32
Supplemental Security Income
54
General Assistance
98
Earned Income Credit
105
II
Food Assistance
136
Food Stamp Program
136
WIC: Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children
155
National School Lunch Program
161
School Breakfast Program
164
Summer Food Service Program for Children
167
Senior Nutrition Programs
168
III
Health Services
177
Medicaid
178
Vaccines for Children
199
Medicare
200
State and Local Programs
210
Public Health Service Act Programs
211
Hill-Burton
212
Emergency Care
214
IV
Housing
222
V
Education
266
Preschool Programs
273
Goals 2000
276
Title I
277
Vocational Education
282
The McKinney Act and Homeless Children
284
Language-Minority Programs
286
Education of Children with Disabilities
287
Pregnant and Parenting Students
296
Higher Education
297
VI
Access to Justice
315
VII
Rights in Public Places
328
VIII
The Right to Vote
340
App. A
Supplemental Security Income Worksheet
357
App. B
Physician's Report Form Samples
362
App. C
Explanation of the "Forty Quarters" Rule
369
App. D
Food Stamp Income Worksheets
371
App. E
State Guide to an Indigent's Right to Counsel in Civil Cases
383
App. F
The Legal System
404