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Peer reviewedDickinson, Amy – American Journal of Family Therapy, 1996
Financial insecurity can affect family life at all income levels across all races. Hardships resulting from financial insecurity fall most heavily upon women--directly through inferior wages and income opportunities, or indirectly through abusive actions by discontented spouses. Empowering women in the financial arena can stabilize families and…
Descriptors: Adults, Counseling, Dependents, Family (Sociological Unit)
SSTA Research in Brief, 1995
Interviews with 12 principals of K-12 schools in rural Saskatchewan examined practices enacted in 1992-93 to lessen the effects of the farm economic crisis on students. A seven-section literature review describes the financial, personal, family, and community components of the farm crisis in Canada and the United States and provides an overview of…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Educational Practices, Elementary Secondary Education, Family Problems
Download full textUpjohn (W.E.) Inst. for Employment Research, Kalamazoo, MI. – 1982
Social statistics may exaggerate the degree of hardship caused by labor market problems. Yet, in many ways social statistics underestimate the degree of hardship caused by extended unemployment, underemployment, and low wages. Therefore, new measures are needed to reassess long-term and cyclical labor market developments, the changing status of…
Descriptors: Business Cycles, Data Analysis, Economically Disadvantaged, Employment Patterns
