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Touhsaent, Susan M. – 1983
To facilitate planning of services to low income, single-parent working women with young children, a client impact study was made of former recipients of Aid to Dependent Children (ADC) in Monroe County, New York. Those surveyed had lost their supplementary income and related benefits due to mandated eligibility constraints in the federal Omnibus…
Descriptors: Coping, Economically Disadvantaged, Employed Women, Family Characteristics
Gladden, Karen; Rivera, Karen; Russell, Sherry – 2000
This book uses poetry and essays to share how welfare reform has affected the lives of a group of female adult literacy students from western Massachusetts. After a brief explanation of the book's purpose, the women who presented their views in the book's poems and essays are profiled. Presented next are six poems that several of the women wrote…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Adult Literacy, Adult Students