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Gershoff, Elizabeth – 2003
This report describes the degree and nature of hardship among low-income and poor working and nonworking families in a nationally representative sample of kindergartners--the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study (Kindergarten Cohort). Five hardship indicators were examined: (1) lack of child health insurance; (2) child has not seen doctor at least…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Comparative Analysis, Employed Parents, Family Work Relationship
Ohio State Legislative Office of Education Oversight, Columbus. – 2000
This report recommends a new poverty indicator to use when distributing Disadvantaged Pupil Impact Aid (DPIA) to Ohio school districts. It also describes the implications of substituting the new indicator in the current formulas used to calculate DPIA funding. Ohio school districts receive DPIA, based on earlier aid programs, to provide all-day…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Finance, Educational Indicators, Elementary Secondary Education
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Devaney, Barbara L.; Ellwood, Marilyn R.; Love, John M. – Future of Children, 1997
Reviews six federally funded in-kind public assistance programs designed to mitigate effects of poverty on children: (1) food stamps; (2) the Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants, and Children; (3) school nutrition programs; (4) Medicaid; (5) Head Start; and (6) housing assistance. Evidence indicates these programs achieve their…
Descriptors: Children, Federal Aid, Federal Programs, Housing
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Morrissey, Elizabeth S. – Southern Rural Sociology, 1989
Finds that, among 2,397 heads of poor Southern households in the March 1986 Current Population Survey, race and education were significant determinants of employment status in metropolitan and nonmetropolitan areas, respectively. Age and receipt of welfare in the previous year were important factors in both areas. (SV)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Educational Attainment, Employment Patterns, Low Income Groups
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Zinn, Maxine Baca – Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 1989
The following two opposing models of the underclass are critically evaluated: (1) the culturally deficient model, which focuses on culture, family, or welfare; and (2) the opportunity structures in decline model, which focuses on employment, marriage, and community pattern changes. (JS)
Descriptors: Black Employment, Black Family, Cultural Influences, Economically Disadvantaged
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Burbridge, Lynn C. – Urban League Review, 1990
Contends that welfare reform should be focused on the well-being of children. Indicates the kinds of concerns that the new welfare reform act should consider. Examines each title of the Family Support Act of 1988. Discusses the implications of each for children. (JS)
Descriptors: Child Support, Child Welfare, Childrens Rights, Economically Disadvantaged
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D'Amico, Deborah – Urban Anthropology and Studies of Cultural Systems and World Economic Development, 1996
Addresses the relationship of education and training to employment and how this discourse shapes policy and programs for public assistance recipients and dislocated workers. Problematic assumptions about how education and training affect employment are discussed, along with statistical data that raise questions about these assumptions. Race,…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Low Income Groups, Misconceptions, Policy Formation
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Rosman, Elisa A.; Knitzer, June – Infants and Young Children, 2001
A framework is provided for thinking about how welfare reform affects young children with disabilities and their families and strategies are presented for addressing their unique needs. The article documents the relationship between disability and poverty, reviews major changes in the law, and highlights challenges. (Contains references.)…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Day Care, Disabilities, Early Intervention
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Cancian, Maria; Meyer, Daniel R. – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2004
Current debates about the success of TANF reforms have been obscured by the use of inconsistent indicators of success, as well as by measurement difficulties associated with alternative indicators. This paper considers conceptual and measurement issues associated with three different indicators of economic well-being: independence from public…
Descriptors: Poverty, Welfare Recipients, Welfare Services, Success
Phillips, Deborah, Ed.; Bridgman, Anne, Ed. – 1995
This report is a summary of a December, 1994 research briefing presented by the Board on Children and Families of the National Research Council and the Institute of Medicine, and the Family and Child Well-Being Research Network of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. This…
Descriptors: Child Development, Children, Early Intervention, Employment Problems
Thompson, Stephen P. – 1997
Books in the Opposing Viewpoints series challenge readers to question their own opinions and assumptions. By reading carefully balanced views, readers confront new ideas on the topic of interest. Although some experts believe that the problem of teenage pregnancy has been overstated, other recent studies have led many people to believe that…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Disadvantaged Youth, Early Parenthood, Economic Factors
Latino Inst., Chicago, IL. – 1994
A statistical profile of the working poor in Chicago (Illinois) and the proceedings of the Working Poor Policy Forum held to discuss the findings of the profile are presented. In America it is supposed to be impossible to work and remain chronically poor, but in fact this is not the case. There are many ways to define the income working families…
Descriptors: Blacks, Economically Disadvantaged, Employment Patterns, Family Income
Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC. – 1998
The Welfare Indicators Act of 1994 requires the Department of Health and Human Services to prepare annual reports to Congress on indicators and predictors of welfare dependence. This is the second of those annual reports. A family is defined as dependent on welfare if more than 50% of its total income in a 1-year period comes from welfare programs…
Descriptors: Definitions, Disadvantaged Youth, Employment, Government Role
Barton, Paul E. – 1998
This report attempts to assemble data on the trends that are favorable or unfavorable to independence from welfare. Twelve such conditions are examined in this report, and they are summarized in table form, with an indication of the direction of the trend and comments. The information is also summarized in narrative form to give an idea of what…
Descriptors: Crime, Early Parenthood, Economic Factors, Family Structure
Zaslow, Martha; Tout, Kathryn; Botsko, Christopher; Moore, Kristin – 1998
Findings from recent evaluations of welfare-to-work programs and child development research suggest that welfare reform can affect children in multiple ways. These studies focused on three welfare-to-work programs that differ from those that will be implemented under the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Children, Disadvantaged Youth, Family Characteristics
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