Law for The Poor

Congressional Digest provides a monthly analysis of the pros and cons of public policy
issues. For example:
2018: June -- Migrant Children
2014: April -- Early Childhood Education & Head Start
2013: May -- Raising the Minimum Wage; November -- Food Stamps & SNAP
2011: March -- The Health Care Debate Continues; June -- Medicare & the
Budget
2010: March -- Job Creation; December -- Child Nutrition: Combating Hunger &
Obesity in America
2009: September -- Poverty in America
2004: February -- The Ongoing Medicare Debate
2002: September -- The Debate Over the 1996 Reform Continues
2000: March -- Minimum Wage & The Debate Over Raising the Hourly Rate
1997: October -- Public Housing Reform
1995: June/July -- Welfare Reform; October -- Privatizing Social Security;
November -- Medicare Reform
1992: June/July -- Capping Federal Entitlement Programs
1989: May -- Minimum Wage Legislation
1988: February -- Welfare Reform; June/July -- The Fair Housing Amendments
Act
1987: April -- Federal Catastrophic Health Insurance; August/September --
Raising the Minimum Wage
1985: April -- Subminimum Wage for Youth
1983: April -- Controversy Over Social Security Reform Proposals
1981: January -- Controversy Over the Food Stamp Program; March --
Controversy Over "Fair Housing"; August/September -- Controversy Over
Financing Social Security
1980: January -- The Welfare Reform Amendments Act
1978: May -- Congress & The Welfare Reform Controversy
1977: May -- Controversy Over New Federal Minimum Wage Proposals
1975: May -- Controversy in the Congress Over Food Stamps
1973: August/September -- Controversy Over the Federal Role in Aiding Low-
Income Individuals
1972: April -- Proposed Revision of the Federal Minimum Wage Law
1970: June/July -- Congress & The "Family Assistance Plan"
1968: January -- Controversy Over the Federal Job Corps; February -- Congress
& The Community Action Program; June/July -- Congress & Public Welfare
Revision
1967: October -- Question of Guaranteed Annual Incomes
1966: February -- Proposals to Change Minimum Wage Law; March -- Congress
& The Johnson Poverty Program
1964: June/July -- U.S. Food Surpluses & The Nation's Needy; October --
Federal Public Works & Unemployment; December -- The Question of a
Separate Federal Program for the Development of "Appalachia"
1960: February -- Move to Raise & Extend the Minimum Wage
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