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Franklin, Paul L. – 1984
Strategies for helping recipients of Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) benefits to pursue postsecondary education are considered, based on a review of activities in Massachusetts and supplemented by findings about 11 other states and the District of Columbia. College financial aid officers, state aid agencies, and Educational…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Agency Role, Caseworkers, College Attendance
Download full textNewman, Sandra J.; Schnare, Ann B. – 1988
This study examines the relationship between income and housing assistance programs. The welfare system, through the explicit and implicit shelter allowances that welfare recipients receive as part of their public assistance benefits, spends at least $10 billion a year on housing assistance. The Department of Housing and Urban Development spends a…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Community Programs, Federal Government, Federal Programs
Children's Defense Fund, Washington, DC. – 1989
The Family Support Act of 1988 (FSA) provides a means by which federal, state, and local governments can work systematically and comprehensively to provide the support people need to escape poverty. The act mandates that appropriate educational services be made available to at least some welfare recipients as part of the effort to help those…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Agency Cooperation, Comprehensive Programs, Educational Change
