For Whom the Bell Tolls: The Institutionalization of Homeless Families in America.

Nunez, Ralph da Costa

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ERIC Number: EJ557744

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Publication Date: 1997

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For Whom the Bell Tolls: The Institutionalization of Homeless Families in America.

Nunez, Ralph da Costa

Journal of Children and Poverty, v3 n2 p97-106 Sum-Fall 1997

Addresses the failure of America's systems of support for homeless families, the impact of this failure on the nature of poverty across the country, and common sense options for turning failure into success. Programs must not focus on dependence today but on education to create independence for tomorrow. (SLD)

Descriptors: Day Care, Disadvantaged Youth, Family (Sociological Unit), Family Environment, Homeless People, Job Skills, Low Income Groups, Poverty, Social Problems, Social Support Groups, Urban Problems, Welfare Recipients, Welfare Reform, Welfare Services

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative

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Language: English

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