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Download full textInteragency Low Income Opportunity Advisory Board, Washington, DC. – 1987
This volume contains the second half of part 1 of a 4-part compendium of information about low income assistance programs plus the remaining 3 parts of the compendium. Part 1 contains detailed information about 59 major federally supported public assistance programs, each of which annually spent over $20 million in fiscal year 1985, and applied a…
Descriptors: American Indians, Community Programs, Employment Programs, Federal Legislation
Harris (Louis) and Associates, Inc., New York, NY. – 1967
THIS INTERIM REPORT OF PRE- AND POST-JOB CORPS STATUS FOR TERMINATIONS (GRADUATES, DROPOUTS, AND DISCHARGES) IS THE SECOND PART OF A CONTINUING EVALUATION OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF JOB CORPS TRAINING. OF 4,649 TERMINATIONS FOR THE PERIOD, 1,254 WERE PERSONALLY INTERVIEWED. SOME OF THE SURVEY HIGHLIGHTS WERE--(1) FEWER THAN HALF OF THE TERMINATIONS…
Descriptors: Age, Comparative Analysis, Disadvantaged Youth, Dropouts
Greenleigh Associates, Inc., New York, NY. – 1968
Part One of this report summarizes the detailed data and findings of Part Two (VT 005 949). A thoroughly documented analysis of federally supported job training programs in terms of their scope, interrelationships, and administration (including inter- and intra-agency coordination) led to 25 recommendations, including: (1) Consolidation of program…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Vocational Education, Agency Cooperation, Apprenticeships
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. – 1973
It is the purpose of this Act to provide job training and employment opportunities for economically disadvantaged, unemployed, and underemployed persons, and to assure that training and other services lead to maximum employment opportunities and enhance self-sufficiency by establishing a flexible and decentralized system of Federal, State, and…
Descriptors: Agricultural Laborers, Economically Disadvantaged, Employment Opportunities, Employment Programs
Levine, Arthur; Nidiffer, Jana – 1996
This book examines how individuals from low-income families in the United States are able to attend college. Part 1 focuses on the odds against a poor person attending college, looking at the reality of growing up poor in the United States and the odds against escaping such poverty. Part 2 examines how poor people beat such odds, presenting a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Access to Education, College Attendance, Community Colleges
Golden, Olivia – 1992
This book analyzes how welfare reform can improve the lives of children, based on a study of successful programs that provide services to needy children and their families. The study looked at programs that operated in conjunction with the welfare department before the enactment of the Family Support Act and that operated successfully. Chapter 1…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Case Studies, Child Welfare, Children
Funkhouser, Janie E.; Moore, Mary T. – 1986
Because magnet schools restructure school and district attendance area boundaries in order to achieve racial heterogeneity, they attempt to disassemble the very unit towards which the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act Chapter 1 program targets its resources--neighborhood schools attended by poor children. A nine-district survey of the…
Descriptors: Attendance, Board of Education Policy, Compensatory Education, Conflict
JOHNSON, LOUISE A. – 1967
AN EXPERIMENTAL AND DEMONSTRATION PROJECT DESIGNED TO PROVIDE BASIC EDUCATION, JOB TRAINING, COUNSELING, AND JOB PLACEMENT FOR 180 NEGRO MALES WAS CONDUCTED BETWEEN JUNE 1, 1964, AND MAY 31, 1965, AT TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE, A PREDOMINANTLY NEGRO PRIVATE COLLEGE IN ALABAMA. THE TRAINEES WERE BETWEEN THE AGES OF 16 AND 50, RURAL RESIDENTS, HEADS OF…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Vocational Education, Blacks, Career Counseling
Bureau of Employment Security (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1966
THE DATA ON MANPOWER DEVELOPMENT TRAINING ACT (MDTA) PROGRAM ACCOMPLISHMENTS DURING 1964 AND 1965 REFLECT THE INCREASING EMPHASIS ON ASSISTING DISADVANTAGED TRAINEES SUCH AS JOBLESS TEENAGERS, NONWHITES, AND PERSONS OF LIMITED EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT. ALMOST HALF OF THE 321,456 ENROLLEES RECEIVED TRAINING IN THE SKILLED AND SEMI-SKILLED CATEGORIES,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Disadvantaged, Disadvantaged Youth
LAZAR, JOYCE B. – 1967
THE PERSONNEL OF THE FAMILY AGENT PROGRAMS WERE WOMEN OF COMFORTABLE MEANS WHO HAD TEN TO TWENTY HOURS A WEEK AVAILABLE FOR SERVICE TO THE POOR. THE TRAINING PROGRAM DESCRIBED IS DIVIDED INTO TWO PHASES--INITIAL TRAINING AND INSERVICE TRAINING. SUBJECTS COVERED INCLUDE--(1) CONCEPTS OF THE WAR ON POVERTY, (2) THE NATURE OF POVERTY, (3) THE CULTURE…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Blacks, Cultural Isolation, Demography
HOWARD, JACK; AND OTHERS – 1967
THE SUCCESSES AND FAILURES OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD YOUTH CORPS (NYC) ARE DISCUSSED IN THIS JOURNAL ISSUE DEVOTED TO THE PROGRAM. IT IS NOTED THAT ALTHOUGH A LACK OF DATA MAKES IT DIFFICULT TO REALISTICALLY EVALUATE NYC, ITS ADMINISTRATORS STRONGLY DEFEND THE PROGRAM'S RECORD IN DECREASING DROPOUTS AND JUVENILE CRIME, AND IN IMPROVING SCHOOL…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Basic Skills, Disadvantaged Youth, Dropouts
Howe, Harold, II – 1968
The dedication speech of the John F. Kennedy by the United States Commissioner of Education gives two principles which guide federal efforts in providing special help for educational problems common to all regions and in setting priorities for federal investment. Five priorities for federal financial support of programs for the handicapped are…
Descriptors: Building Design, Educational Needs, Educational Opportunities, Educational Programs
National Inst. for Advanced Study in Teaching Disadvantaged Youth, Washington, DC. – 1968
The Southwest Educational Development Laboratory (SEDL), with support from The American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education through its Inter-Institutional Program Development Project, has prepared this report as phase 2 of a three-phase project designed to improve the educational approach to disadvantaged children. This report reveals…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Disadvantaged Youth, Early Childhood Education, Educational Needs
New York City Human Resources Administration, NY. – 1968
Described briefly are the various antipoverty programs of New York City's Human Resources Administration. This new city agency coordinates programs in manpower and career development, community development, social services, youth services, addiction services, and the Office of Education Liaison. (NH)
Descriptors: Career Planning, Community Development, Day Care, Dropout Programs
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and the Workforce. – 2002
This document reports on a congressional hearing on the George W. Bush administration's proposals for welfare reform and legislation to reauthorize the 1996 welfare reform law. Testimony includes statements from United States (US) Representatives John Boehner and Patsy Mink; Tommy G. Thompson, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Child Advocacy, Child Care, Child Welfare
