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Direct linkGuo, Baorong – Social Work Research, 2012
Although a vast amount of literature on the characteristics of public assistance recipients exists, little is known about the characteristics of the clientele of nonprofits that provide material assistance. This study examines the question of who receives material assistance from nonprofits. Three panels of the Survey of Income and Program…
Descriptors: Nonprofit Organizations, Poverty, Welfare Recipients, Technical Assistance
Download full textZill, Nicholas; And Others – 1991
The study described in this paper used data from two national samples of families with children to describe the home environments in which welfare children are being raised and to identify the children's health, learning, and behavior problems. The study compared children whose families had received Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC)…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Behavior Problems, Child Health, Child Welfare
Peer reviewedLindjord, Denise – Journal of Early Education and Family Review, 2002
Notes that many from across the ideological spectrum suggest that welfare reform address policies that promote marriage and two-parent families. Discusses marriage, family structure and economic well-being, the benefits of marriage for adults and children, and low-income unwed mothers and marriage. Suggests that marriage and two-parent families…
Descriptors: Children, Disadvantaged Youth, Economically Disadvantaged, Family (Sociological Unit)
Bergmann, Barbara R. – 1996
This book asserts that public assistance programs--particularly in countries in Western Europe--have been demonstrated to relieve deprivation and ensure an acceptable standard of living for those nations' families. Contrasting the extensive child welfare programs offered by France with those of the United States, this book describes in detail an…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Economically Disadvantaged, Federal Government, Foreign Countries
Bos, Johannes M.; Huston, Aletha C.; Granger, Robert C.; Duncan, Greg J.; Brock, Thomas W.; McLoyd, Vonnie C.; And Others – 1999
This document details the 2-year results of the New Hope Project, which was conducted in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to reduce poverty, reform welfare, and improve the overall well-being of poor people by providing a mix of incentives and services, including supplemental income, child care subsidies, guaranteed affordable health insurance, and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Child Welfare, Cost Effectiveness, Day Care
Chase-Lansdale, P. Lindsay, Ed.; Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne, Ed. – 1995
Children's poverty rate in the United States, over 20%, exceeds that of all industrialized nations except Australia. This interdisciplinary book examines the impact of changing public policies on children. Section 1 gives a current and historical overview of children in poverty. Sections 2 through 5 address arenas of possible change from policy…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Support, Childhood Attitudes, Children
