In January of 1973, just days after Johnson died of a heart attack, a newly reelected Nixon announced plans to terminate the OEO and eliminate federal funding for the Community Action Program. Philip ...

The former head of Community Action Lehigh Valley is being honored nationally for his work with the nonprofit.

Deregulation, defunding of welfare programs, higher taxes on the poor, and weak labor laws lead to high poverty in the United ...

Launched in 1964, The Great Society led to some of the greatest social safety nets still in use by the government today, including the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964, the Food Stamp Act of 1964 ...

A public-interest law firm has filed federal civil-rights complaints against New York and Wisconsin on behalf of contractors ...

Knowing these eight things will help journalists ask better questions and provide more probing coverage of minority-serving institutions.

What resulted is WILL’s two complaints on behalf of Contractors for Equal Opportunity ... Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act bans discrimination based on sex or race in programs receiving ...

At the conference, Gaylor Baird, along with local business and manufacturing partners, said the city’s strategic investment of American Rescue Plan Act funds in workforce development initiatives ...

He also played a key role in the proposal and passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which brought to an end the ... the ...

Beginning in the 1960s, outreach efforts like Upward Bound – first established through the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 – and other federal TRIO programs now housed under the Education ...