{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["http://cohen.house.gov/press-release/cohen-announces-more-13-million-help-prepare-shelby-county-children-school", "Cohen Announces More Than $13 Million to Help Prepare Shelby County Children for School", "2013-12-23", "2013", "2013-12", "Democrat", "House", "TN", "Steve Cohen", "C001068", "cohen.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "[WASHINGTON, DC] \u2013 Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that Shelby County has been awarded a $13,161,380 grant from the Department of U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) to support Head Start projects that help promote school readiness of children from birth until the age of 5 by enhancing their cognitive, social, and emotional development.\n\u201cToday\u2019s funding is an investment in our children, an investment in our families, and an investment in our future,\u201d said Congressman Cohen. \u201cBecause of this important funding, children from low-income families throughout Shelby County\u2019s will be healthier and better prepared to learn when they enter school. We will see countless benefits down the line as today\u2019s children grow into tomorrow\u2019s entrepreneurs, doctors, scientists, and productive members of our society. This is an important program that I am proud to support.\u201d\nHead Start is a federal program that provides comprehensive services to enrolled children and their families, which include health, nutrition, social services and other services determined to be necessary by family needs assessments, in addition to education and cognitive development services. Shelby County Head Start provides these services to over 3,000 children in Memphis and Shelby County.\nToday\u2019s funding will complete the funding needed for the school year that ends in May 2014. An announcement about who will administer the Head Start grant for the 2014-1015 school year is expected within the next few months, along with additional funding for this vital program.\nThe Head Start program was founded as part of Lyndon B. Johnson\u2019s War on Poverty in 1965 as an eight-week demonstration project. Since its founding, Head Start has served over 30 million children and their families in urban and rural areas in every corner of the nation and has grown to include full day as well as year services and numerous program options.", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["http://cohen.house.gov/press-release/cohen-announces-more-13-million-help-prepare-shelby-county-children-school"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 2.7051109354943037, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}