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Download full textRowe, Gretchen; Mabli, James; Hartnack, Julie; Monzella, Kelley – US Department of Agriculture, 2022
The Agricultural Act of 2014 authorized $200 million for the development, implementation, and evaluation of pilot projects to test innovative strategies to reduce dependency on and increase employment among Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) participants. California, Delaware, Georgia, Kansas, Kentucky, Illinois, Mississippi,…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Federal Legislation, Federal Aid, Pilot Projects
US Department of Education, 2009
The Educational Opportunity Centers (EOC) program is one of the federal TRIO programs, a group of eight outreach programs funded by the U.S. Department of Education that are designed to support and assist students from disadvantaged backgrounds to progress through the academic pipeline from middle school to attainment of a postbaccalaureate…
Descriptors: Awards, Outreach Programs, Disadvantaged, Educational Opportunities
Somers, Gerald G.; Warlick; Jennifer L. – 1975
This report provides an analysis of young men in the Parnes National Longitudinal Surveys who were enrolled in manpower programs from 1963 to 1972. It provides information on the Probability that members of the 5,225 sample would enter a manpower program, given personal and economic characteristics. The report evaluates the relationship of…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Employment Programs, Federal Programs, Followup Studies
Wolf, Patrick; Eissa, Nada; Gutmann, Babette – Education Working Paper Archive, 2006
The federal government recently enacted its first school voucher program as a pilot project in the District of Columbia. To be eligible, students need to be entering grades K-12 and have a family income at or below 185 percent of the poverty level. Although a rigorous analysis of the Opportunity Scholarship Program's impact on student achievement…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Pilot Projects, Disadvantaged, Scholarships
Main, Earl D. – 1966
To learn what effects Manpower Development and Training Act (MDTA) institutional job training courses had on income and employment, a nationwide representative sample of about 1,200 former trainees (784 completers and 413 dropouts) were interviewed early in 1966--over a year after their job training--to learn their opinions of the programs and…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Comparative Analysis, Control Groups, Employer Attitudes
PDF pending restorationKirsch, Irwin S.; And Others – 1992
A comprehensive assessment of the literacy proficiencies of Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) and Employment Service/Unemployment Insurance (ES/UI) participants was conducted by the Department of Labor. The survey responses of a sample of 2,501 JTPA applicants and 3,277 ES/UI participants were scored, weighted, analyzed, and used to develop a…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Comparative Analysis, Correlation, Data Collection
National Advisory Council on Adult Education, Washington, DC. – 1974
Reflecting the philosophy and policy of the National Advisory Council on Adult Education, the report first examines the adult basic education (ABE) target group from the vantage point of the discipline of economics, focusing on: educational attainment and occupation distribution; education, mobility, and occupation; technology and increasing…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Dropouts, Adult Education, Adult Programs
