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Cozic, Charles P., Ed.; Winters, Paul A., Ed. – 1997
Books in the Opposing Viewpoints Series present debates about current issues that can be used to teach critical reading and thinking skills. The opinions expressed in the selections in each series title examine many different aspects of a single issue. Detractors of the welfare system have long argued that the system promotes dependency. They…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Delivery Systems, Disadvantaged Youth, Economic Factors
Nightingale, Demetra Smith, Ed.; Haveman, Robert H., Ed. – 1994
Contributions to this book are based on presentations at a conference hosted by The Urban Institute in April 1994 to consider the challenges of achieving self-sufficiency for the nation's poor. Achieving long-term self-sufficiency for society's members is a fundamental social goal, but the problems involved, particularly those of finding enough…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Employment Opportunities, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Job Development
Wallace, Phyllis A. – 1974
An exploratory study on unemployment among black teenage females in two urban poverty neighborhoods in New York City (Harlem and Bedford-Stuyvesant) was conducted by the Metropolitan Applied Research Center (MARC) during 1970-71. The unemployment rate among black teenage females (16-19 years) has ranged from 28.4 percent in 1958 to 35.5 percent in…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Blacks, Community Involvement, Economically Disadvantaged
Peters, Alan H.; Fisher, Peter S. – 2002
The effectiveness of state enterprise zone programs was examined by using a hypothetical-firm model called the Tax and Incentives Model-Enterprise Zones (TAIM-ez) model to analyze the value of enterprise zone incentives to businesses across the United States and especially in the 13 states that had substantial enterprise zone programs by 1990. The…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Corporations, Cost Effectiveness, Definitions
