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Download full textHoutenville, A.; Rafal, M. – Institute on Disability, University of New Hampshire, 2020
The "2020 Annual Report on People with Disabilities in America" is a companion volume to the "2020 Annual Disability Statistics Compendium" (ED613086) and "Supplement" (ED613090). Indicators were in the following areas of interest: employment, educational attainment, health and health care, financial status and…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Incidence, Employment Level, Income
Houtenville, A.; Boege, S. – Institute on Disability, University of New Hampshire, 2020
The "2019 Annual Report on People with Disabilities in America" is a companion volume to the "2019 Annual Disability Statistics Compendium" (ED605680) and "Supplement" (ED605683). In addition to the inclusion of indicators related to population size, educational attainment, employment, earnings from work, poverty, and…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Incidence, Employment Level, Income
Direct linkKarasik, Bradley – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This secondary analysis of the earning mobility of the near poor examined the impact of human capital investment on the earning mobility of the near poor between 2005 and 2009. The theory framing this study is Human Capital Theory (Shultz, 1961). Other demographic and socioeconomic variables were included in this study to further explore factors…
Descriptors: Wages, Poverty, Low Income Groups, Human Capital
Peer reviewedWatson, Cathy; Chapman, David W.; Okurut, Charles Opolot – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2014
This study reports findings of a tracer that investigated differences in the profile and subsequent experiences of scholarship recipients in Uganda who were able to complete the lower secondary school cycle (O level) without interruption (N = 174) and those that dropped out before completing their O-level cycle (N = 51), thereby losing their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Scholarships, Secondary School Students, Dropouts
Small, Latoya A.; Jackson, Jerrold; Gopalan, Geetha; McKay, Mary McKernan – Research on Social Work Practice, 2015
Background: Youth living in poverty face compounding familial and environmental was challenges in utilizing effective community mental health services. Ongoing stressors increase their drop-out rate in mental health service use. Difficulties also exist in staying engaged in services when involved with the child welfare system. This study examines…
Descriptors: Urban Areas, Urban Youth, Family Needs, Family Relationship
Chrisler, Alison; Moore, Kristin A. – Child Trends, 2012
In 2010, the declining birth rate among teenagers in the United States reached an historic low, and since 1991, the rate has declined 44 percent. Though this trend is promising, 372,252 teens nevertheless became mothers in 2010. That same year, 41 percent of all births were to unmarried women. Moreover, in 2010, 15 percent of the U.S. population…
Descriptors: Evidence, Poverty, Mothers, Disadvantaged
Wight, Vanessa R. – Prevention Researcher, 2011
More youth live in poverty and poor youth comprise a larger share of the youth population than was the case a decade ago. This article first provides a descriptive analysis of children in poverty; examining the incidence of poverty among children by selected demographic, socioeconomic, and geographic characteristics with a particular focus on…
Descriptors: Poverty, Adolescents, Social Indicators, Incidence
Parish, Susan L.; Rose, Roderick A.; Andrews, Megan E. – Exceptional Children, 2010
Using data from the National Survey of America's Families, this study assesses the success of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) goals to increase employment, enhance family stability through marriage promotion, and reduce welfare reliance. In the period prior to TANF implementation, during implementation, and from 1 to 4 years after…
Descriptors: Employment Level, Mothers, Income, Economically Disadvantaged
Tokuc, Burcu; Ekuklu, Galip; Avcioglu, Serap – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2010
The aim of this study is to assess the prevalence and risk factors of domestic violence against married women in Edirne, Turkey. This is a cross-sectional study which included a representative sample of the married women living in the Provincial Center of Edirne. The total past year prevalence of some forms of physical domestic violence is 34% in…
Descriptors: Family Violence, Marital Status, Females, Incidence
Graefe, Deborah Roempke; Lichter, Daniel T. – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2008
The promotion of marriage and two-parent families became an explicit public policy goal with the passage of the 1996 welfare reform bill. Marriage has the putative effect of reducing welfare dependency among single mothers, but only if they marry men with earnings sufficient to lift them and their children out of poverty. Newly released data from…
Descriptors: Employment Level, Unwed Mothers, Females, Marriage
Glasgow, Nina – 1988
A disproportionate share of the U.S. elderly population lives in nonmetro areas and has substantially more poverty than the metro elderly population. The nonmetro elderly's poverty rate was 21% in 1980 versus 13% for metro elderly, while median incomes were $4,111 versus $5,003. Lower personal incomes of the nonmetro elderly, regression analysis…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Educational Attainment, Employment Level, Low Income
Cook, Traci; Blachman, Dara; Dye, Jane; Macartney, Suzanne; Lukacs, Susan; Howie, LaJeana; Kena, Grace; Sonnenberg, William; Axelrad, Daniel; Steffen, Barry; Truman, Jennifer; Cotto, Jessica; Jekielek, Susan; Mueggenborg, Mary; Coleman-Jensen, Alisha; Denton, Stephanie; Avenevoli, Shelli; Singleton, James; Knighton, Cindi; Han, Beth; O'Connell, Kellie; Guenther, Patricia; Hiza, Hazel; Kuczynski, Kevin; Koegel, Kristin; Radel, Laura – Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics, 2011
"America's Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, 2011" is a compendium of indicators depicting both the promises and the challenges confronting our Nation's young people. The report, the 15th in an ongoing series, presents 41 key indicators on important aspects of children's lives. These indicators are drawn from the most…
Descriptors: Adoption, Social Indicators, Social Environment, Physical Environment
Women's Bureau (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1989
In 1988, 65% of mothers with children under the age of 18 were in the labor force. Regardless of marital status, mothers are very active in the labor force and contribute significantly to family income. On average, female-headed households earned 56% of the amount married-couple families earn. Families maintained by women represented 52% of all…
Descriptors: Black Mothers, Children, Day Care, Early Parenthood
California State Dept. of Industrial Relations, San Francisco. Fair Employment Practices Commission. – 1966
A special survey of South Los Angeles (predominantly Negro) and East Los Angeles (predominantly Mexican-American) was taken by the U.S. Bureau of the Census in November, 1965, and the results were compared with 1960 census statistics. Although total population declined in both areas, further "ghettoization" took place as percentages of…
Descriptors: Blacks, Employment Level, Employment Statistics, Family Status
Older Women's League, Washington, DC. – 1986
The U.S. population includes over 23 million women aged 45 to 64 and 17 million women aged 65 and over. Their life experiences are very different from those of men. The median total income of women trails that of men at all ages. Women at all ages are twice as likely as men to be poor. Poverty among the elderly is closely associated with sole…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Diseases, Divorce, Dual Career Family
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