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    Each year, the Census Bureau updates the poverty threshold. According to their website, the official poverty definition uses money income before taxes and excludes capital gains or noncash benefits like public housing, Medicaid, and food stamps. Beyond that, there is also a poverty threshold that measures need. These include the dollar amounts to determine poverty status. It can be individual or by family and varies by the size of the family and age of the members. In a utopian world, there would

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    Radical Republicans envisioned the Freedmen’s Bureau as an agency that would reshape the South by providing food and shelter to freed slaves in the immediate aftermath of the war, regulate black labor as both former slave owners and their freed slaves adjusted to the elimination of slavery, administer justice in any conflicts between African Americans and Southern whites, manage land seized from Confederate office holders and distribute it to freed slaved; and finally, establish schools and promote

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    The Freedmen Bureau was agency to help former slaves and some white people in the southerners. The Freedmen agency started by the congress in the 1865. This agency was very helpful and it gave many good opportunities for African American. The agency was protecting their civil rights and the agency said “civil rights are basic human rights belonging to all people”. That’s why they protect their civil rights. The Freedmen Bureau was important for African Americans during Reconstruction

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    former slaves. The strongest foundation of hope for freed slaves began on March 3rd, 1865, when the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands was established. This bill was more popularly known as the Freedmen’s Bureau. The bill was established to provide aid to former slaves while transitioning to a new life of freedom. Through the tremendously difficult time of Reconstruction, the Freedmen’s Bureau saw its own challenges

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    1865, the Legislative body established the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, furthermore known as the Freedmen's Bureau. It provided medical care, assisted with resettlement, food, and it helped establish learning institutes. In excess of one-thousand learning institutes were built, teaching institutions were created for teacher’s training, and many African-American colleges were

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    Freedmen’s Bureau was an agency established as part of the U.S. War Department by an act of Congress in March 1865. The full title of the agency was Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands. Its principal aim was to provide assistance to the newly emancipated blacks of the South after the American Civil War. Originally created for one year, the bureau was continued in 1866 by Congress overriding the veto of President Andrew Johnson and was thereafter repeatedly extended. The bureau was headed

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    Freedmen's Bureau Report

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    was by creating the Freedmen’s Bureau. The original purpose of the bureau was to provide things like protection, advice, and economic, social, and educational services (Goldfield, The American Journey, vol. 2, 356). Because of the bureau the literacy rate among black southerners was able to rise from 10 percent to 30 percent within a decade fallowing the end of the Civil War (Goldfield, 357). At first this seemed to make the transition easier, however when the bureau fell apart in 1872 the former

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    The Font Bureau, Inc

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    The Font Bureau in a privately held company that was founded in 1989 by publication designer and media strategist Roger Black, and internationally known type designer David Berlow. David Berlow entered the type industry in 1978 as a letter designer for several respected type foundries. He is a member of the New York Type Directors Club and the Association Typographique International and remains active in typeface design. Based in Boston, Massachusetts, the foundry remains small with independent

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    The American Civil War was a chaotic and bloody conflict for the United States. While the Civil War was not strictly fought over slavery, it was a central factor. At the outbreak of the war, there were approximately four million slaves in the Union. With Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, those slaves were declared free men. However a large majority of those slaves were located in territory held by the Confederacy, and it was not until the end of the conflict that that these men and women actually

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    the United States, along with the foundation of such an agency and who regulates the licenses, accreditation, certifications, and authorization for employment for those who work within one of these facilities. The Federal Bureau of Prisons The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) is an agency that was created on May 14, 1930 and approved of by then president Herbert Hoover. Its main headquarters is in Washington, D.C. The BOP is a subdivision of the United States Justice Department and

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