In order to study the persistence of poverty across generations with a view to developing or monitoring cross-generational poverty-reduction policies, social indicators to track dependency and deprivation of children are needed. Available data on the dependency and deprivation of children primarily describe the following characteristics of the…

The hearing reported in this document was called to address the human havoc wreaked by substance abuse among pregnant women in America. Witnesses included leading scientists and innovative service providers qualified to supply the best information on chemically dependent women across the country and to point the way to a better understanding of…

This report provides results of a General Accounting Office review of the Delta Teachers Academy, a program funded primarily by the federal Department of Education to upgrade the subject area knowledge and teaching skills of elementary and secondary teachers in the Lower Mississippi Delta region (involving rural areas of Arkansas, Illinois,…

This presidential executive order was issued to: (1) ensure that tribal colleges and universities are more fully recognized as accredited institutions of higher education, have access to opportunities afforded other such institutions, and have federal resources committed on a continuing basis; (2) establish a mechanism to increase accessibility of…