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California State Dept. of Employment Development, Sacramento. Migrant Services Section. – 1979
During the 1978 agricultural season, migrant farmworkers and their families occupied 2,079 rental units at 26 migrant housing centers provided by the Office of Migrant Services. Supportive services at the centers included day care centers for children two to five years of age, a few infant care facilities, and access to medical serivces,…
Descriptors: Age Groups, Agricultural Laborers, Anglo Americans, Blacks
Download full textBLACKBURN, DONALD J.; DOUGLAH, MOHAMMAD A. – 1968
THIS STUDY WAS UNDERTAKEN TO DETERMINE THE METHOD ORIENTATION OF ADULTS (SPECIFICALLY, 611 RESIDENTS OF PREDOMINANTLY RURAL COLUMBIA COUNTY, WISCONSIN) FOR PARTICIPATION IN EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES IN VOCATIONAL EDUCATION, HOBBIES AND RECREATION, ACADEMIC OR GENERAL EDUCATION, RELIGION, MORALS AND ETHICS, HOME AND FAMILY LIFE, PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Age Groups, Course Content, Educational Background
KAPLAN, FRANCES BALGLEY, ED.; MEADE, MARGARET, ED. – 1965
THE PRESIDENT'S COMMISSION ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN WAS ESTABLISHED IN 1963 BY PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY TO ANALYZE THE CONDITION OF WOMEN IN THE UNITED STATES TODAY, REVIEW ACCOMPLISHMENTS IN IMPROVING THEIR STATUS, AND RECOMMEND MEANS OF OVERCOMING DISCRIMINATIONS IN EMPLOYMENT AND SERVICES THAT WILL HELP WOMEN CONTINUE THEIR ROLE AS WIVES AND…
Descriptors: Blacks, Civil Rights, Employed Women, Employment
JOHNSTON, RUPERT BERNARD – 1960
GOALS OF FARM FAMILIES WERE ANALYZED AND FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH THEIR ACCOMPLISHMENT STUDIED. DATA ON FARM GOALS, FARM AND HOME RESOURCES, AND INCOME WERE OBTAINED FROM 112 FAMILIES IN 18 MISSISSIPPI COUNTIES, IN WHICH THERE WERE THREE DIFFERENT COUNTY EXTENSION STAFFING PLANS. GOALS WERE CLASSIFIED IN GOUPS SUCH AS HOME AND GROUNDS, HOME…
Descriptors: Age Groups, Children, Costs, Doctoral Dissertations
Cloward, Richard – 1966
An equitable system of income distribution is needed for the many indigent persons unable to benefit from skill enrichment programs, full employment, or job upgrading. Such persons include the aged, mothers with dependent children, and physically or mentally ill individuals. Present public welfare departments, which offer a form of income…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Educational Problems, Family Income, Individual Power
Klausner, Samuel Z. – 1978
Findings and recommendations of two studies begun in 1968 regarding the lives of impoverished people in Camden, New Jersey are presented in this report. In the first study, factors aiding and hindering the achievement of economic independence, especially through the Work Incentive Program (WIN), of female headed households are considered. Data…
Descriptors: Blacks, Economically Disadvantaged, Employed Women, Employment Programs
McMillan, Robert L. – 1977
The combined total of 3,861 entering students during fall 1976 and spring l977 at Essex County College, New Jersey, were given the Comparative Guidance and Placement Test battery. This test and enrollment files provided the following student characteristics data: enrollment was 75% black, approximately 60% female, 64% high school graduates, about…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Aspiration, Blacks, College Freshmen
Nicholson, Walter; Corson, Walter – 1976
The study reports the results of a two-wave longitudinal interview of over 2,000 individuals who exhausted their unemployment insurance (UI) benefits in October 1974. The interviews were conducted at the time of exhaustion and four months later in Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, and Seattle. UI exhaustees are a relatively representative cross-section…
Descriptors: Family Financial Resources, Family Income, Family (Sociological Unit), Federal Programs
Rowe, Gene; Smith, Leslie Whitener – 1976
The report contains data pertaining to the number and distribution of U.S. farm wageworkers and their dependents who were eligible in 1973 for the national farmworker program under the 1973 Comprehensive Employment and Training Act's (CETA) Title III, Section 303 (a). Information is given by migratory status, ethnic group, earning, and region.…
Descriptors: Agricultural Laborers, Blacks, Economically Disadvantaged, Employment Statistics
Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency, Harrisburg. – 1975
This document tries to identify and measure how families meet the challenge of increasing educational costs and the impact and interrelationships of student financial programs (federal, state, and institutional) on such matters as student access to higher education, student institutional choice patterns, and student ability to overcome family…
Descriptors: Colleges, Costs, Educational Finance, Enrollment
Laub, Julian Martin – 1970
When a college is located in a rural area, its input to that community includes social, economic, political, psychological, and physical factors. The prime purpose of this study was to describe the socioeconomic impact of the college on rural communities of New York State, particularly the New York State University College at Alfred (small…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Students, Colleges, Community Planning
Leonard, Olen E. – 1968
The purposes of the study conducted in Saginaw County, Michigan, were to determine (1) changes experienced by Spanish-speaking migrants, especially moves into and out of the labor force; (2) future changes in the availability of Spanish-speaking migrants for agricultural labor; (3) the significance of migrants' settling permanently in Michigan;…
Descriptors: Educational Attitudes, English (Second Language), Environment, Family Income
Allen, Donald E.; Robinson, Oliver W.
A study was conducted in Logan County, Oklahoma, among rural disadvantaged high school students whose families' total income was $4,000 annually or below. The objectives of the study were: (1) to determine whether the source of family income, public or non-public assistance, had an effect upon academic performance of students from the same…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Disadvantaged Youth, Family Environment
Harkins, Arthur M.; Woods, Richard G. – 1969
Feelings of Indians (Oneidas, Chippewas, Potawatomis, and Winnebagos) on factors of reservation life (education, community living, employment opportunities, and community problems) were surveyed through attitudinal studies conducted at selected Indian reservations in Wisconsin. Reservation families tend to be large, inadequately educated, living…
Descriptors: American Indians, Attitude Measures, Community Problems, Dropouts
Jensen, Gale E. – 1968
Concentrating on two regions in Lower Michigan, this study investigated criteria for identifying occupationally unstable persons who contemplate migrating; significant characteristics of this group; and educational deficiencies. Data on population trends, school enrollments, and unemployment were collected; interviews were held with 283 unemployed…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attitudes, Educational Background, Educational Needs
