- Poverty rates highest for Montana's youngestchildren.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Throughout the United States, low-income families and the children who live in them face significant challenges. Historically, these challenges have been compounded in Montana by a lack of job opportunities. Over the past few years, however, the economic outlook for Montana has been encouraging, with four consecutive years ......
- Decreasing health disparities.
Family-Centered Care provides a forum for sharing information about basic components of caring for children and families, including respect, information sharing, collaboration, family-to-family support, and confidence building. African Americans and Hispanics receive a lower quality of health care for a variety of conditions, including cancer, cardiovascular disease, HIV/AIDS, diabetes, mental ......
- Labor law for supervisors: developing issues in native
American employment law.
Increasing numbers of employment-related cases are involving Native Americans. Several reasons contribute to this trend. First, Native American tribes are expanding economic development on and off reservations, and these activities are generating complex legal questions with respect to employment practices and liability. Also, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has announced ......
- Sovereignty through welfare reform? A case study of the Klamath tribes of Oregon
INTRODUCTION The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reorganization Act (PRWORA), or welfare reform, passed in 1996, grants states and federally recognized American Indian tribes and Native American Organizations (NAOs) the opportunity to administer their own Temporary Aid to Needy Families (TANF) programs. The transition of control over welfare programs from ......
- MBA conference hears of Bush effort to save US
homes.
The Bush Administration's foreclosure prevention initiatives are helping more families keep their homes, U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Alphonso Jackson said at the Mortgage Bankers Association 94th Annual Convention last week. Jackson highlighted several programs and proposals that the Administration has put forward to help struggling homeowners who ......
- WORDS AS BIG AS THE SCREEN: NATIVE AMERICAN LANGUAGES
AND THE INTERNET.
ABSTRACT As linguists working with the revival, maintenance, and survival of Native American languages have noted, the forces causing languages to become obsolete are not merely linguistic: Political, economic, and social factors all influence the viability of indigenous languages. Thus, researchers addressing Native American issues must pay attention to these ......
- SBA has awarded the first contracts in an economic
development initiative.
SBA has awarded the first contracts in an economic development initiative aimed at Native American communities. Administrator Hector Barreto said the initiative "will create a framework for us to work closely with tribal communities, helping Native American businesses succeed and create jobs in their communities." The new contracts awarded incorporate ......