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School Communities of Strength: Strategies for Educating Children Living in Deep Poverty
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Peter W. Cookson Jr. – Harvard Education Press, 2024
In "School Communities of Strength," Peter W. Cookson, Jr., lays out a blueprint for providing equitable educational opportunities for students from all socioeconomic strata, and particularly for the five million American children who live with the extreme material hardship known as deep poverty. This work issues an urgent call to action…
Descriptors: Poverty, Elementary School Students, Secondary School Students, Public Schools
Public Library Services for the Poor: Doing All We Can
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Holt, Leslie Edmonds; Holt, Glen E. – ALA Editions, 2010
Among public institutions, the library has great potential for helping the poor and disenfranchised. For many, the library is the only refuge for information, literacy, entertainment, language skills, employment help, free computer use and even safety and shelter. Experts Glen and Leslie Holt, with decades of service to inner city communities…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Lifelong Learning, Public Libraries, Library Services
The Impact of Economic Policies on Poverty and Income Distribution: Evaluation Techniques and Tools.
Bourguignon, Francois, Ed.; Pereira da Silva, Luiz A., Ed. – 2003
This book, a collection of articles and papers, reviews techniques and tools that can be used to evaluate the poverty and distributional impact of economic policy choices. Following are its contents: "Evaluating the Poverty and Distributional Impact of Economic Policies: A Compendium of Existing Techniques" (Francois Bourguignon and Luiz A.…
Descriptors: Economic Climate, Economic Factors, Economic Impact, Economic Research
Low Wages and the Working Poor: Policy Papers in Human Resources and Industrial Relations 22.
Bluestone, Barry; And Others – 1973
The purpose of the study is to begin a detailed investigation of the low-paid work force and to focus attention on the determinants of low-wage employment, by dissecting the various forces that contribute to the determination of wage levels for full-time full-year workers. The question is whether low-wage poverty can be eliminated by upgrading the…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Educationally Disadvantaged, Employees, Geographic Location
Put Up or Give Way: States, Economic Competitiveness, and Poverty.
Sidor, John – 1991
This report proposes that state economic development policy and resources, and state personnel, with their knowledge of and access to the business community, can contribute to the intertwined issues of competitiveness and poverty. Following an introduction, chapter 2 examines four related issues: poverty, income equity, welfare dependency, and the…
Descriptors: Competition, Cooperative Programs, Coordination, Economic Development
Improving Health and Welfare Work with Families in Poverty: A Handbook.
Blackburn, Clare – 1992
This book brings together sources of material on poverty and family health and makes it accessible to health and welfare teams working with families with young children. It draws on a wide range of disciplines and uses both "hard" and "soft" data to provide facts and figures and first-hand accounts of how poverty affects family…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Child Welfare, Economically Disadvantaged, Family Financial Resources
Saving Our Children from Poverty: What the United States Can Learn from France.
Bergmann, Barbara R. – 1996
This book asserts that public assistance programs--particularly in countries in Western Europe--have been demonstrated to relieve deprivation and ensure an acceptable standard of living for those nations' families. Contrasting the extensive child welfare programs offered by France with those of the United States, this book describes in detail an…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Economically Disadvantaged, Federal Government, Foreign Countries
Wasting America's Future: The Children's Defense Fund Report on the Costs of Child Poverty.
Sherman, Arloc – 1994
A quarter of children under age 6 are poor. Poverty has a multiple and cumulative effect on children, regardless of race, family structure, or parental education level. As part of the Children's Defense Fund's Costs of Child Poverty Research Project, this report shows the effects of poverty on children. The Children's Defense Fund's stated mission…
Descriptors: Child Advocacy, Child Rearing, Child Welfare, Childhood Needs
Escape from Poverty: What Makes a Difference for Children?
Chase-Lansdale, P. Lindsay, Ed.; Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne, Ed. – 1995
Children's poverty rate in the United States, over 20%, exceeds that of all industrialized nations except Australia. This interdisciplinary book examines the impact of changing public policies on children. Section 1 gives a current and historical overview of children in poverty. Sections 2 through 5 address arenas of possible change from policy…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Support, Childhood Attitudes, Children