Both The McKinney–Vento Homeless Assistance Act and The Head Start Program are created to help the low-income and homeless people. The both programs have almost the same goal, which is reduce the poverty and improve the welfare. In fact, the Head Start program was established before The McKinney–Vento Homeless Assistance Act. Next, the rest of the paper will be summarizing for The McKinney–Vento Homeless Assistance Act and The Head Start Programs and some opinion.
First of all, The McKinney–Vento Homeless Assistance Act of 1987 is one of the United States federal laws, which provides money for homeless shelter programs. It was the first response to the homeless by the federal legislative. Also, it was passed and signed by President Ronald …show more content…
faced crisis, which is the lack of shelter for different kind of people and families who need this; homelessness problem became more important, because it changes to be worse and dangers to the lives and safety of the homeless. Next, homelessness’ causes are a lot and complicated. There is no one solution to solve the problem, because of the different causes, reasons, situations, and needs. Increasing the number of the homeless and must of them did not meet the basic human needs. The Federal Government is reasonable to solve this problem. The federal government gives money to states, when they accept the terms of the act, which is a conditional funding …show more content…
The McKinney-Vento programs are trying to reach everywhere in the U.S. but funding limits the program's' success. They should increase the funds to cover all demands. Also, finding solutions to the causes of homelessness is better than focus on emergency situations. That was the first goal, which is resolving homelessness. In fact, the McKinney-Vento Act is needed now more than ever to reduce the number of the homeless and long-term plan with response for any emergency situations. Over all the programs cover many different areas and it will be more effective if the federal government can find the roots of homelessness and fix