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Cutting Welfare Benefits to Working Mothers. Federal Government Retrenchment: Issues of Fairness, Cost Effectiveness, and Services.
Touhsaent, Susan M. – 1983
To facilitate planning of services to low income, single-parent working women with young children, a client impact study was made of former recipients of Aid to Dependent Children (ADC) in Monroe County, New York. Those surveyed had lost their supplementary income and related benefits due to mandated eligibility constraints in the federal Omnibus…
Descriptors: Coping, Economically Disadvantaged, Employed Women, Family Characteristics
Who Bears the Burden? Black Children in America: Impact of the President's FY '85 Budget Proposals.
National Black Child Development Inst., Inc., Washington, DC. – 1984
Emphasizing the effects of changes in social policy on black children, this report describes the federal administration's proposed and completed funding for social programs for fiscal years 1982-85 and outlines strategies for those interested in affecting program policy. Social programs are grouped under three main headings: (1) health and child…
Descriptors: Adoption, Black Youth, Budgeting, Child Welfare
Public Assistance and Poverty. A Special Report of the Southern Regional Council, Inc.
Suitts, Steve – 1985
Second in a series of studies examining the patterns of poverty in the South, this report analyses the level of government benefits available to the southern poor from 1980 through 1984. The examination is restricted to four programs: Aid to Families With Dependent Children, Medicaid, Food Stamps, and Supplemental Security Income. The states…
Descriptors: Economic Factors, Economically Disadvantaged, Federal Programs, Futures (of Society)
Through the Safety Net: A Citizen's Report on New Jersey Children and Families in Need.
Geismar, Shirley; And Others – 1983
In 1982, volunteers in eight New Jersey counties gathered information from 993 respondents through questionnaire-guided interviews about recent local developments in programs traditionally funded and supported by federal legislation. Program areas receiving attention included Aid to Families with Dependent Children; child care; health; the Women,…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Day Care, Early Childhood Education, Economically Disadvantaged
The States and the Poor. How Budget Decisions in 1991 Affected Low Income People.
Shapiro, Isaac; And Others – 1991
This study describes how poor people fared in the state tax and spending decisions made in 1991, a year marked by the most serious fiscal crisis for the states since the recessions of the early 1980s. These decisions primarily affected fiscal year 1992 state budgets, which typically began in July 1991. The report focuses on income support, medical…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Children, Economic Impact, Economically Disadvantaged
Children, Youth, and Families of the Mountain West. Hearing before the Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families. House of Representatives, Ninety-Eighth Congress, First session (Salt Lake City, UT, December 6, 1983).
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Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families. – 1984
The third of five regional fact-finding committee hearings across the United States, this report includes testimony from hearing committee members and social service organizations in Utah, Nevada, Wyoming, Colorado, and Montana. Live and prepared testimony presents information on problems associated with abuse of women, children, and the elderly;…
Descriptors: Accidents, Adolescents, Adoption, American Indians