Maui Economic Opportunity’s largest fundraiser of the year grossed almost $155,000 to support the nonprofit’s more than 30 ...

The preservation of Community Action funding is imperative to continue important programs that support low-income children ...

In my lifetime alone, we’ve seen wave after wave of efforts to tackle them: the creation of Federally Qualified Health Centers under the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964; the launch of Medicare ...

Work-study might level the playing field, but it does nothing to ensure a fair game. By confronting the issues with ...

Among them were the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 (which was opposed by local and national politicians), the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1965, urban renewal programs, the Housing and ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... LEST WE FORGET! August 16, 2024, I wrote in this paper of a remarkable woman who ...

Sex discrimination in employment and pay is wrong and already illegal, thanks to the Equal Pay Act (1963 ... is the director of the Center for Economic Opportunity at Independent Women and ...

Beltrami and Cass County’s BI-CAP receives revenues from over 11 funding sources and 58 different grants, bringing federal, ...

Community Teamwork Inc., based in Lowell, is the regional anti-poverty agency created through President Lyndon Johnson’s Economic Opportunity Act. AgeSpan, based in Lawrence, was formerly known ...

The agency is part of the National Community Action Partnership (NCAP), a network of 1,000 Community Action Agencies (CAA), originally established under the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 to fight ...