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  2. Comprehensive Employment and Training Act - Wikipedia

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    The Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA, Pub. L. 93–203) was a United States federal law enacted by the Congress, and signed into law by President Richard Nixon on December 28, 1973 [1] to train workers and provide them with jobs in the public service. [2] The bill was introduced as S. 1559, the Job Training and Community Services ...

  3. Boys State and Girls State - Wikipedia

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    Boys and Girls State programs both began in 1937 and are held in each of the U.S. states (except Hawaii where there is only a Girls State program), usually at a college within that state. There is also a coed Boys/Girls State session held in Washington, D.C. [ 1 ] In general, male and female programs are held separately, but at least eleven ...

  4. Texas Workforce Commission - Wikipedia

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    One large program, the Skills Development Fund, is Texas' premier job–training program providing training dollars for Texas businesses to help workers learn new skills and upgrade existing skills. TWC also administers the Texas Payday Law, Texas Child Labor Law and Child Care Services. TWC works with 28 Local Workforce Development Boards to ...

  5. List of North American ethnic and religious fraternal orders

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    "Supreme Office" at 749 Broadway, Buffalo, New York. [41] Merged with Unity Life and Accident Insurance Association in 1934. [42] GUG Germania - Gegenseite Unterstutzungsgeselshaft Germania, founded in 1888 and incorporated the same year in Wisconsin, in which state they confined their operations. Their mission, in their words "for the purpose ...

  6. Center for Talented Youth - Wikipedia

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    Website. cty.jhu.edu. The Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth (CTY) is a gifted education program for school-age children founded in 1979 by psychologist Julian Stanley at Johns Hopkins University. It was established as a research study into how academically advanced children learn and became the first program to identify academically ...

  7. List of North American fraternal orders - Wikipedia

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    Empire Knights of Relief – Founded in 1889 in Buffalo, New York. Among the founders were Freemasons, Oddfellows, members of the Royal Arcanum, and the Ancient Order of United Workmen. Open to "temperate, industrious" men ages 20–55 years who can pass a medical examination. There were 4,000 members in the late 1890s spread over six states.

  8. Child labor laws in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The main law regulating child labor in the United States is the Fair Labor Standards Act.For non-agricultural jobs, children under 14 may not be employed, children between 14 and 16 may be employed in allowed occupations during limited hours, and children between 16 and 17 may be employed for unlimited hours in non-hazardous occupations. [2]

  9. J. E. Franklin - Wikipedia

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    J. E. Franklin (born August 10, 1937), who publishes under the name J. e. Franklin, is an American playwright, best known for her play Black Girl, which was broadcast on public television in 1969, staged Off-Broadway in 1971, and made into a feature film, Black Girl (1972 film).