Session #90 · 1967–69

Speech #900070238

Public Health Service. Ninety thousand MexicanAmerican youths have enrolled in the Neighborhood Youth Corps in the past 3 years. 5.000 have served in the Job Corps. The Office of Economic Opportunity has devoted $41 million to antipoverty programs involving migrant workers and their families. Sixty percent of those fundsor almost $25 millionhas been used in programs to help MexicanAmerican migrant workers. In Texas alone. where there are more than 100.000 migrant workersmostly MexicanAmericansantipoverty funds are providing fulltime classroom instruction for 38.000 children of migrant families and for nearly 9.000 parents for improvement of language skills in both English and Spanish. The Federal Government has instituted new minimum wage requirements which for the first time cover farmworkersa development quite meaningful to MexicanAmerican farmworkers who traditionally receive low wages. These are just a few of the highlights from this report.
Keywords matched
migrant

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Positive
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
95%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Humanitarian Economic contributor

Speaker & context

Speaker
JEFFERY COHELAN
Party
D
Chamber
H
State
CA
Gender
M
Date
—
Speech ID
900070238
Paragraph
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