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Zaslow, Martha J.; Dion, M. Robin; Morrison, Donna Ruane – 1997
The Job Opportunities and Basic Skills Training Program (JOBS) is intended to enhance welfare recipients' employability through education, training, and job placement activities, and provision of Medicaid benefits and child care subsidies. The JOBS Observational Study compared outcomes findings to those from the New Chance Observational Study to…
Descriptors: Job Placement, Job Training, Mothers, Parent Child Relationship
Ahluwalia, Surjeet K.; McGroder, Sharon M.; Zaslow, Martha J.; Hair, Elizabeth C. – 2001
This brief is one of a series written to help inform public debate surrounding the 2002 reauthorization of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grant. The brief examines the level of depressive symptoms among samples of welfare recipients studied in five experimental evaluations of welfare-to-work programs. The brief notes…
Descriptors: Depression (Psychology), Employment Problems, Mothers, Parent Child Relationship
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Zaslow, Martha J.; Emig, Carol A. – Future of Children, 1997
Reviews research from the late 1960s through the present that considers how maternal employment affects children in low-income families. Most studies have indicated that children are not harmed when mothers go to work, but it is noted that the women in these studies entered employment voluntarily. (SLD)
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Children, Disadvantaged Youth, Employment Patterns