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Murray, Merrill G. – 1971
Unemployment insurance is the principal income program for workers who lose their jobs, however, it does not provide adequate income, nor does it provide for all unemployed persons. Because many different programs are operated for this purpose, they tend to have a fragmented effect and leave many unemployed persons with no income support. This…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Federal Programs, Poverty Programs, Program Descriptions
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Rawlins, V. Lane – Industrial Relations, 1972
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Federal Programs, Labor Force Development
Dunkle, Margaret C. – 1995
This report provides a detailed examination of the various federal programs for children and families and outlines ways in which the United States Congress and Executive Branch could make these programs work better. Intricate and often overlapping goals and actions are typical of the Congressional committees and Executive Branch departments that…
Descriptors: Advocacy, Committees, Family Programs, Federal Government
Bureau of Educational Personnel Development (DHEW/OE), Washington, DC. – 1971
Low-income community residents and Vietnam era veterans are being put to work as education auxiliaries in poverty-area schools while they study in one or more cooperating universities. The Career Opportunities Program (COP) was provided for under the Education Professions Development Act, and about 75 percent of its programs are in inner city…
Descriptors: Career Development, Career Guidance, Career Opportunities, Educational Improvement
Academy for Educational Development, 2007
This is a report on the Symposium that accompanied the 15-16 May, 2007 meeting of the UNAIDS Inter-Agency Task Team (IATT) on Education. The IATT Symposium provided an opportunity to address in some detail two selected problems that are critical to stemming the advance of HIV infection--areas that have had some attention, but remain insufficiently…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Educational Development, Conflict
Germanis, Peter, Ed.; Bavier, Richard, Ed. – 1987
About half of the first part of a 4-part compendium of information about low income assistance programs is presented in this document (the rest of part 1 and the other 3 parts of the compendium are presented in volume 3 of supplement 1 of this series). Part 1 contains detailed information about 59 major federally supported public assistance…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Federal Legislation, Federal Programs, Federal State Relationship
St. Pierre, Robert; And Others – 1993
This evaluation report is the third in a series of reports that are part of a 4-year national effort designed to describe the types of Even Start projects that have been funded, the services provided, the collaboration efforts undertaken, and the obstacles to program implementation that have been encountered. The current report provides…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, At Risk Persons, Early Childhood Education, Family Literacy
Rhode Island State Dept. of Education, Providence. – 1974
This bulletin provides information on financial and participation statistics, including the number of programs, Title I programs, State compensatory education programs, and joint State and Title I funded programs. Children served are given in terms of grade, ethnic/language group characteristics, and public and non-public participation. Program…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Programs
Takanishi-Knowles, Ruby – 1974
The main purpose of this paper is to examine recurring themes which emerge from past federal programs in early education and to identify potential areas where critical historical research is necessary. The author, after a brief survey of federal involvement in early education from 1933 to 1973, suggests that the historical perspective might…
Descriptors: Day Care, Early Childhood Education, Educational Legislation, Employed Women
Administration for Children, Youth, and Families (DHHS), Washington, DC. Head Start Bureau. – 1993
This booklet discusses the origins and components of Head Start, a federal project launched in 1965 to help break the cycle of poverty by providing preschool children of low-income families with a comprehensive program to meet their emotional, social, health, nutritional, and psychological needs. The description of the program notes that in fiscal…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Child Health, Community Role, Family Programs
Prescott, Elizabeth; Milich, Cynthia – 1974
This report on group day care is designed to: (1) examine the kinds of group programs for school-age children which exist in Los Angeles County, (2) describe the conditions necessary for program operation, and (3) consider the issue of quality as it relates to community expansion of day care services for children of school age. The report is…
Descriptors: After School Day Care, Black Community, Case Studies, Day Care
Committee on Administration of Training Programs, Washington, DC. – 1968
This report to the Secretary of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare is based on the research findings of a private research contractor, Greenleigh Associates (See VT 005 948 and VT 005 949), site visits, and interviews with persons connected with about 30 federally supported job training programs. The 30 programs are of two types:…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Vocational Education, Agency Cooperation, Apprenticeships
Interagency Low Income Opportunity Advisory Board, Washington, DC. – 1987
This volume contains the second half of part 1 of a 4-part compendium of information about low income assistance programs plus the remaining 3 parts of the compendium. Part 1 contains detailed information about 59 major federally supported public assistance programs, each of which annually spent over $20 million in fiscal year 1985, and applied a…
Descriptors: American Indians, Community Programs, Employment Programs, Federal Legislation
Greenleigh Associates, Inc., New York, NY. – 1968
Part One of this report summarizes the detailed data and findings of Part Two (VT 005 949). A thoroughly documented analysis of federally supported job training programs in terms of their scope, interrelationships, and administration (including inter- and intra-agency coordination) led to 25 recommendations, including: (1) Consolidation of program…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Vocational Education, Agency Cooperation, Apprenticeships
Bureau of Employment Security (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1966
THE DATA ON MANPOWER DEVELOPMENT TRAINING ACT (MDTA) PROGRAM ACCOMPLISHMENTS DURING 1964 AND 1965 REFLECT THE INCREASING EMPHASIS ON ASSISTING DISADVANTAGED TRAINEES SUCH AS JOBLESS TEENAGERS, NONWHITES, AND PERSONS OF LIMITED EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT. ALMOST HALF OF THE 321,456 ENROLLEES RECEIVED TRAINING IN THE SKILLED AND SEMI-SKILLED CATEGORIES,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Disadvantaged, Disadvantaged Youth
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