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Fortuny, Karina; Capps, Randy; Simms, Margaret; Chaudry, Ajay – Urban Institute (NJ1), 2009
Up-to-date state information on the characteristics and population size of children of immigrants is essential for planning and implementing educational, health, housing, labor, and other social programs that affect children, their families, and other residents. This brief, a companion to the Urban Institute's new interactive Children of…
Descriptors: Low Income Groups, Community Surveys, Immigrants, Children
Snipes, Jason C.; Holton, Glee Ivory; Doolittle, Fred – MDRC, 2006
In the past decade, school districts around the country have sought to improve struggling urban high schools, where high dropout rates, poor student achievement, and low rates of graduation and college-going remain all too prevalent. In a field crowded with reform initiatives, Project Graduation Really Achieves Dreams (GRAD) stands out as…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, High Schools, Educational Change, College Attendance
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Spiezia, Vincenzo – International Labour Review, 2002
Analyzes labor market effects of the aging population, examines projected population and employment trends in Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development countries; effects on savings and productivity; and projections for 2000-2050 in six countries. Discuses national and international policies to increase employment of older adults and…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Employment Projections, Foreign Countries, Labor Market
Carasso, Adam; Steuerle, C. Eugene; Reynolds, Gillian – Urban Institute (NJ1), 2007
This report tracks federal spending from 1960 to 2006 and uses current policy and some assumptions to project activity through 2017. The report looks at more than 100 major programs that aim to improve children's lives through income security, health care, social services, food and nutritional aid, housing, education, training, and tax credits and…
Descriptors: Federal Government, Expenditures, Children, Federal Aid
Abdur-Rahman, Amina; And Others – 1981
This is the fourth Status of Black New York Report, (1981) issued by the New York Urban League. A significant portion is based on the responses garnered from the New York City sample of a national survey of black households conducted by the Urban League. Examined are the needs, perceptions, and social and economic concerns of black New Yorkers.…
Descriptors: Black Attitudes, Black Employment, Blacks, Economic Development
Ames, Bobbie H. – 1981
This report in two volumes is the product of a year-long needs assessment undertaken by the Governor of Alabama's Commission for the Alabama Year of the Child. Volume I, which contains an overview and recommendations to the governor and the legislature, includes position papers and letters from the commission and interested citizens. These…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Abuse, Children, Curriculum Development