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Beck, Judy A. – 1988
This manual outlines a program model that combines employment training with literacy building for low-income single mothers. Chapter I introduces these programs. Chapter II discusses barriers that a low-income single mother faces. Chapter III offers directions for thinking about the feasibility of moving into literacy services by conducting a…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Opportunities
Download full textGreenberg, Mark; Strawn, Julie; Plimpton, Lisa – 2000
States can use Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) and state maintenance of effort (MOE) funds to foster access to postsecondary education (PE) for low income parents. Access matters because success of welfare reform depends on helping welfare recipients work steadily and find better jobs; neither of the two most commonly tried…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Compliance (Legal), Economically Disadvantaged, Employment Programs
Quelch, John – 2000
A study established the extent of literacy deficits among participants in Victoria's Job Network, Job Search Training (JST) programs, and the impact that identified literacy deficits are having on job seekers' ability to participate in the Australian Job Search program and on their job seeking potential. Data were sought from 35 programs (with…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Literacy, Agency Cooperation, Client Characteristics (Human Services)
National Commission for Employment Policy (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1981
The National Commission for Employment Policy has examined ways that the United States federal government could improve the economic situation of disadvantaged women. In particular, the Commission examined, during 1980, the role of education and employment and training programs in helping women to prepare for better paying occupations, and then…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adults, Apprenticeships, Blacks
