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Gordus, Jeanne Prial – 1984
This document contains both a trainers' guide and a participants' book for a one-day workshop on coping with unemployment. The workshop is planned to enable participants to withstand a period of joblessness with a minimum of personal stress. It includes information about specific unemployment-related problems, methods of stress management,…
Descriptors: Alcoholism, Classroom Techniques, Coping, Dislocated Workers
Gittins, Naomi, Ed. – 1990
Presentations delivered at the National School Boards Association (NSBA) Council of School Attorneys 1990 school law seminar are compiled in this publication. The following papers are included: "The 1989 Revolution in Employment Discrimination Law: Procedure Alters Substance," by Charles F. Abernathy; "Special Education Litigation: The Preparation…
Descriptors: Compensation (Remuneration), Compliance (Legal), Constitutional Law, Court Litigation
Download full textCrown, William H.; Leavitt, Thomas D. – 1996
A study examined the nature and the relative incidence of different forms of underemployment and how and under what conditions underemployment of older workers differed from that of younger workers. Data from May 1979, May 1988, and April 1993 Current Population Surveys (CPSs) for workers aged 50-64 were used. Two categories of underemployed…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Disadvantaged, Employment Patterns, Employment Problems
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Energy and Commerce. – 1987
This report recommends that the Social Security Act Title XIX be amended to include a 24-month extension of Medicaid to families who become ineligible for cash assistance under the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program. This amendment accompanies the Family Welfare Reform Act of 1987 (H.R. 1720), which is proposed to replace the…
Descriptors: Employed Parents, Employment, Employment Problems, Family Financial Resources
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Energy and Commerce. – 1988
Two hearings held a month apart examine major issues concerning Medicaid benefits in family welfare and nursing home reform. The first set of hearings discusses the proposed Family Welfare Reform Act of 1987 (H.R. 1720), which is intended to replace the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program of the Social Security Act Title IV.…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Employed Parents, Employed Women, Employment Problems
Employment Policies Inst., Washington, DC. – 2000
In the past few years, union activists and some policymakers have increasingly portrayed part-time work as problematic for a worker. According to statistics compiled by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the part-time "problem" is more rhetoric than reality. Only 17% of U.S. workers are classified as part-time. Of those 17%, 15% are…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Definitions, Demography, Educational Attainment
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Finance. – 2001
This Congressional report contains the testimony and documents presented for the record of a hearing to gather input regarding the Strengthening Working Families Act of 2001, which was drafted to provide the assistance needed by former welfare recipients and other poor working parents to remain employed and advance in the labor market. The…
Descriptors: Adoption, Block Grants, Child Care, Conflict Resolution
Card, David E., Ed.; Blank, Rebecca M., Ed. – 2000
This book contains 13 papers on labor market and welfare reform, with special emphasis on the demand for low-wage workers, wages and job characteristics in the less skilled labor market, public politics to increase employment and earnings of less skilled workers, and the impact of welfare reform. The following papers are included: "The Labor…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Choice, Day Care, Economic Climate
