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Download full textBrown, Rebecca; Ganzglass, Evelyn; Golonka, Susan; Hyland, Jill; Simon, Martin – 1998
This report explores promising welfare-to-work programs and practices of states and localities as they balance supply- with demand-side strategies to help welfare recipients and low-wage workers work their way out of poverty while meeting employers' needs for reliable workers. Chapter 2 describes the new environment created by changes in the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Ladders, Economically Disadvantaged, Employed Women
Palsha, Sharon A.; Rennells, Mary Sue – 1990
This study examined how personnel issues raised by P.L. 99-457, Education of the Handicapped Amendments (1986) were being met in North Carolina in 1985 and 1988. Data were gathered from the statewide network of home-based intervention services (Early Childhood Service), providing information about 139 staff and consultants in 1985 and 135 in 1988.…
Descriptors: Counselor Certification, Disabilities, Early Intervention, Employment Patterns
Sperber, Leslie; Bloom, Dan – 2002
Vermont's Welfare Restructuring Project (WRP), which was implemented in 1994-2001, required that single-parent welfare recipients who could not find wage-paying jobs after receiving cash assistance for 30 months accept work in subsidized, minimum-wage community service employment (CSE) positions to satisfy their work requirement and improve their…
Descriptors: Community Services, Employment Patterns, Employment Programs, Employment Qualifications
Smith, Rebekah J.; Deprez, Luisa S.; Butler, Sandra S. – 2002
Maine's Parents as Scholars (PaS) program provides parents who are eligible for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) with cash assistance and support services while they attend a two-year or four-year postsecondary degree program. PaS participants receive the same cash benefits and access to support services as TANF recipients receive.…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Child Care, College Attendance, Education Work Relationship
Gray, Dorothy; Harkreader, Steve; Wagar, Deborah – 2001
The performance of Florida's Workforce Development Education Program was reviewed. The following were among the data considered: (1) data on program enrollment, program completion, and earnings; (2) data on workforce programs provided from 1992-1993 to 1998-1999; and (3) the 97 responses obtained in a telephone survey of 418 Florida businesses…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Community Colleges, Comparative Analysis
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and the Workforce. – 2002
This Congressional report contains the testimony and documents presented for the record of the first of two hearings to gather testimony on the effects of welfare reform and the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grant. The oral and written testimony focuses on TANF legislation's outcomes and impact on work and families in…
Descriptors: Block Grants, Economics, Employment Level, Employment Patterns
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and the Workforce. – 2002
This Congressional report contains the testimony and documents presented for the record at the second of two hearings on the effects of welfare reform and the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grant. Other areas receiving particular attention from witnesses included the impacts of education and training on employment patterns…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Block Grants, Economics, Education Work Relationship
Levitan, Mark; Gluck, Robin – 2002
Employment, earnings, and poverty among single mothers in New York City and across the United States in the age of welfare reform were examined to identify goals and recommendations for reauthorization of legislation regulating Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF). The study indicated that although job holding by single mothers has risen…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Block Grants, Change Strategies, Child Care
Hastedt, Christine B.; Smith, Rebekah J. – 2002
Five years after the massive overhaul of the nation's welfare system, 21 Maine families receiving public assistance spoke about their lives during welfare reform. The following were among the key themes that emerged throughout the conversations: (1) those leaving Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) often remain poor or very nearly poor;…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Access to Health Care, Case Studies, Child Care
Barnow, Burt S., Ed.; King, Christopher T., Ed. – 2000
This book, which is intended for policymakers, administrators, and researchers, contains 13 research papers and reviews of the literature on increasing the effectiveness of publicly funded training. The following papers are included: "Publicly Funded Training in a Changing Labor Market" (Burt S. Barnow, Christopher T. King); "The…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Cost Effectiveness, Disadvantaged, Dislocated Workers
