Federal Programs of Assistance to Labor Surplus Areas: A Report

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Page 18 - State publicwelfare agencies in establishing, extending, and strengthening, especially in predominantly rural areas, public -welfare services (hereinafter in this section referred to as "child welfare services") for the protection and care of homeless, dependent, and neglected children, and children in danger of becoming delinquent...
Page 6 - Services) collects, announces and distributes to the public unclassified technical information from the Department of Defense, Atomic Energy Commission, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and other Federal sources.
Page 3 - Employment Act of 1946." DECLARATION OF POLICY Sec, 2. The Congress hereby declares that it is the continuing policy and responsibility of the Federal Government to use all practicable means consistent with its needs and obligations and other essential considerations of national policy, with the assistance and cooperation of industry, agriculture, labor, and State and local governments, to coordinate and utilize all its plans, functions, and resources for the purpose of creating and maintaining,...
Page 18 - Grants to States for public assistance : For grants to States for old-age assistance, aid to dependent children, aid to the blind, and aid...
Page 29 - Production specialists in the Small Business Administration regional offices are available to help individual small business concerns with technical production problems. These problems frequently arise in cases where a firm is making items for the government not directly along the lines of its normal civilian business or where the government specifications require operations which the firm did not understand when it undertook the contract. Production assistance often takes the form of locating tools...
Page 23 - ... except that such purchases and contracts may be negotiated by the agency head without advertising if — (1) determined to be necessary in the public interest during the period of a national emergency declared by the President or by the Congress ; (2) the public exigency will not admit of the delay incident to advertising...
Page 16 - Service are: ( 1 ) to conduct and support research and training in the medical and related sciences, and in public health methods and administration; (2) to provide medical and hospital services to persons authorized to receive care from the Service, to aid in the development of the Nation's hospital and related facilities, and to prevent the introduction of communicable diseases into the United States and its possessions...
Page 16 - All 50 States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and Guam have submitted plans and applications for funds.
Page 2 - This program is administered by the Urban Renewal Administration of the Housing and Home Finance Agency. These federal grants are usually employed to acquire sites in suburb an fringe areas.
Page 5 - The other principal point we would like to urge is that a preferential industrial development program would create duplications, overlaps, and conflicts with existing programs. The Office of Area Development of the Department of Commerce recently reported on its activities as follows : The Office of Area Development in the Business and Defense Services Administration serves as a central point in the Federal Government where State and local organizations, public and private, can obtain information...

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