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Weber, Roberta B.; Davis, Elizabeth E. – 2002
Although most of the substantial increase in states' child care spending between 1997 and 1999 is expended through child care subsidy programs or by contracts with child care resource and referral agencies, little research has focused on how the child care subsidy program operates, who is served, and what services are offered. This report is one…
Descriptors: Child Care, Comparative Analysis, Parents, Participant Characteristics
Download full textEmployment Policies Inst. Foundation, Washington, DC. – 1995
This booklet, which is designed to clarify facts regarding the minimum wage's impact on marketplace economics, contains a total of 31 questions and answers pertaining to the following topics: relationship between minimum wages and poverty; impacts of changes in the minimum wage on welfare reform; and possible effects of changes in the minimum wage…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Education, Economic Impact, Employed Parents
Clymer, Carol; Roberts, Brandon; Strawn, Julie – 2001
A study reviewed the efforts of six states (California, Florida, Minnesota, Oregon, Texas, and Washington) to create new policies and strategies to support low-income individuals as they work. The study found the following: (1) working steadily initially after leaving welfare is linked to being employed in later years but is not linked to higher…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Continuing Education, Education Work Relationship, Employment Opportunities
Pines, Marion; Callahan, Jim – 1997
State policies and activities for systematizing work force development were examined through a survey completed by individuals involved in work force development in 40 states and case studies of policies and programs in Texas, Utah, Florida, and Michigan. Throughout all levels of government and the private sector, consensus that work force…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Agency Cooperation, Case Studies, Change Strategies
Brown, Rebecca – Issue Notes, 2001
This document examines emerging issues and opportunities for community-based organization (CBO) involvement in welfare reform. The document begins with a brief section of background information on past CBO involvement in helping families move from welfare to work. The next section answers policy questions pertaining to the following issues: (1)…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Programs, Agency Role
O'Shea, Daniel; King, Christopher T. – 2001
The Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (WIA) was the first significant attempt to retool the nation's workforce development programs since the early 1980s. Titles I-V of the WIA do the following things: (1) establish the purposes, goals and operational framework of a workforce development system designed to increase participants' employment,…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Accountability, Adult Education, Adult Literacy
