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According to Age: Longitudinal Profiles of AFDC Recipients and the Poor by Age Group. Prepared for the Working Seminar on the Family and American Welfare Policy.

Murray, Charles; Laren, Deborah – 1986

Using findings of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), this report discusses how people become poor and why they stay that way. The PSID reveals that the requirements for getting out of poverty in the United States are so minimal that it takes a mutually reinforcing cluster of behaviors to remain in poverty, even for blacks and females. The…

Descriptors: Dropouts, Early Parenthood, Economically Disadvantaged, Federal Programs

Project TEEN. Report on Adolescent Pregnancy and School Dropouts in Louisiana.

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Louisiana State Dept. of Education, Baton Rouge. – 1987

This report describes results of Project TEEN, a 1-year federal grant project awarded to the Louisiana State Department of Education for the purpose of conducting a state assessment of compliance with Title IX as related to middle and secondary school dropouts among pregnant female adolescents. Other stated purposes of the project include…

Descriptors: Adolescents, Dropouts, Early Parenthood, Illegitimate Births

Minnesota Kids: A Closer Look. 1996 Data Book.

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Kids Count Minnesota, Minneapolis. – 1996

Minnesota KIDS COUNT focuses on key risk indicators for children and describes the condition of children in each of Minnesota's 87 counties. According to this second annual report, another generation of children is at risk of growing up with decreasing resources, evidenced by increasing arrest rates for violent crimes and substantiated reports of…

Descriptors: Adolescents, At Risk Persons, Births to Single Women, Census Figures