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Direct linkAmanda Webster Mussman – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Material hardship impedes academic achievement at every level of education. This dissertation examines the response of a higher education institution in reducing poverty's impact, specifically food and housing insecurities, on its student population. This qualitative case study researched a single-bound case in the southern United States. The…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Poverty, Poverty Programs, College Students
Liberatus J. Rwebugisa – ProQuest LLC, 2020
The world's perplexing challenge in the 21st Century is empowering people to eradicate poverty. Poverty in its many forms and dimensions undermines, subdues, and diminishes human agency. Research on education and poverty has concluded that what the poor people need most is empowerment. This qualitative case study research focused on the…
Descriptors: Empowerment, Self Determination, Poverty Programs, Cooperation
Tasneem, Farah – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This dissertation examines two policies that affect women's education, bargaining power, son preference, and awareness of domestic violence in developing countries. The first chapter evaluates a conditional cash transfer program in Bangladesh to identify its impact on the education of multiple generations and explores the pathways behind the…
Descriptors: Womens Education, Family Violence, Sons, Preferences
Annie Marie Falor Watson – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This qualitative study examines the material conditions and day-to-day realities of youth and family homelessness in the context of widespread economic oppression and rising inequalities in the United States. Using a critical ethnographic methodology, primary data sources included observations in Cinderville Unified School District and interviews…
Descriptors: Economic Factors, Poverty, Homeless People, Family (Sociological Unit)
Denise Scalzo – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The Federal Work-Study (FWS) Program was established under the Equal Opportunity Act of 1964 to place low-income students with part-time employment to offset some educational expenses. In 1965, it was moved by President Lyndon B. Johnson to the Higher Education Act of 1965. The program was originally established as a job development program to…
Descriptors: Work Study Programs, Federal Aid, Student Financial Aid, Federal Legislation
Xue Yang Coleman – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Recent studies have acknowledged the role of community-based organizations (CBOs) in tackling poverty. CBOs could provide a valuable social space, networks, and supporting resources for disadvantaged people in local communities. They could also provide psychological empowerment opportunities and experiences that could positively influence the…
Descriptors: Poverty, Poverty Programs, Community Organizations, Community Services
