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Download full textUS Senate, 2016
This hearing is the third in a series examining critical issues in postsecondary education as the committee looks to reauthorize the Higher Education Act. The topic discussed is of paramount importance and is arguably the bedrock of Federal higher education policy, that is, the Federal financial aid programs and their effectiveness in providing…
Descriptors: Hearings, Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Higher Education
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Div. of Human Resources. – 1988
This report analyzes data from the April 1984 Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) on households comprised of both Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) recipients and nonrecipients. Of the 3.7 million AFDC households, 32 percent consisted of AFDC recipients and their relatives, as opposed to only recipients. Analysis of the…
Descriptors: Children, Family Financial Resources, Family Income, Family (Sociological Unit)
Congress of the U. S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Government Operations. – 1977
In this text of hearings held before a congressional committee on the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program are statements from a number of specialists regarding the administration of public assistance, and relevant information on low income families. Specific data and the more general theory of social welfare and reform are…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Employment Problems, Family Income, Federal Aid
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Human Resources. – 1978
Hearings before the Committee on Human Resources of the U.S. Senate on the Better Jobs and Income Act (S. 2084) are presented. (The purpose of the Act, the text of which is included in the document, is to replace the existing federal welfare programs with a single, coordinated program to seek to assure jobs, training, and income supplementation…
Descriptors: Employment, Employment Opportunities, Family Income, Family Problems
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Health, Education, and Human Services Div. – 1994
This report examined the participation of at-risk children in preschool programs, after controlling for selected individual, family, and geographic characteristics. A multivariate statistical technique, a logistic regression, was applied to data from the 1990 Decennial Census. This allowed an analysis of the relative effects of each of the…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Educational Attainment, Enrollment, Family Income
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families. – 1988
Although more Americans are working than ever before, economic and employment trends over the past decade have resulted in low-income families falling even farther below the poverty level than ever before. The purpose of this oversight hearing is to discuss strategies to overcome family poverty. Testimony was submitted by six expert witnesses in…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Economically Disadvantaged, Employment Opportunities, Family Income
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Subcommittee on Education, Arts and Humanities. – 1981
Testimonies are presented from U.S. Senate hearings on the Basic Educational Opportunity Grant Program (Pell grant program) for the 1982-1983 academic year. The proposed schedule is tied to an expected appropriation of $2.187 billion for Pell grants for fiscal year 1982. The administration's alternative involving no statutory changes would require…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Eligibility, Family Income, Federal Aid
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families. – 1988
This document comprises the testimonies presented at this hearing and related documents. A new study on trends in family income in the United States from 1970 to 1986, prepared in the Congressional Budget Office, is included, as is a fact sheet on children and families in poverty. Millions of children and families have been left out of the…
Descriptors: Access to Health Care, Advocacy, Day Care, Economically Disadvantaged
