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Spillover Impacts on Education from Employment Guarantees
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Adukia, Anjali – Education Finance and Policy, 2022
Programs that provide lower-skill employment are a popular anti-poverty strategy in developing countries, with India's employment guarantee program (MGNREGA) employing adults in 23 percent of Indian households. MGNREGA has reduced rural poverty, but some have raised concerns that guaranteeing lower-skill (or uncredentialed) employment…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Employment Programs, Poverty Programs, Education
Education for the Poor in the Neoliberal Era: Socio-Educational Programmes to Combat Poverty in Spain
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Rodríguez Fernández, Juan R.; Díez Gutiérrez, Enrique J. – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2017
The neoliberal capitalist crisis of 2008 brought to light poverty and destitution in our societies. In Spain, 13 million people live in poverty, structural unemployment is over 20% and levels of insecurity have risen in all sectors and social groups. In the EU, 120 million live in poverty, while globally, wealth is increasingly concentrated in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Economically Disadvantaged, Neoliberalism, Poverty Programs
Issues in Workfare.
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Cude, Brenda J.; Walker, Rosemary – Journal of Home Economics, 1982
Examines the issues surrounding the controversial Workfare program, which establishes work effort as a requirement for receipt of welfare benefits. (SK)
Descriptors: Employment Programs, Federal Programs, Low Income Groups, Poverty Programs
American Indian Organizational Education in Chicago: The Community Board Training Project, 1979-1989
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Laukaitis, John J. – American Educational History Journal, 2009
American Indian organizations in Chicago grew both in size and number during the 1970s. The lasting impact of War on Poverty programs and the passing of the Indian Education Act of 1972 and the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act of 1973 served as significant factors for the development of these organizations. Alternative American Indian…
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, Employment, Poverty, Needs Assessment
Which Welfare Work Strategies Work?
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Dickinson, Nancy S. – Social Work, 1986
AFDC Welfare work strategies have been implemented to help AFDC (Aid to Families with Dependent Children) recipients secure unsubsidized employment. Reviews research on employment programs for AFDC clients and highlights the respective advantages of these programs. Suggests program changes to improve welfare work strategies. (Author/ABB)
Descriptors: Employment Programs, Poverty Programs, Reentry Workers, Social Change
Maximizing Benefit Transfers to the Poor: Evidence from South African Employment Programmes.
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Haddad, Lawrence; Adato, Michelle – International Labour Review, 2002
Analysis of 101 projects in 7 public works programs (PWPs) in Western Cape Province in the mid-1990s estimated the public expenditure needed to transfer resources to the poor. Comparison of the result with that generated by a hypothetical, untargeted transfer showed that most of the PWPs outperform the benchmarks. (Contains 26 references.) (JOW)
Descriptors: Economic Impact, Economically Disadvantaged, Employment Programs, Financial Policy
The Management Challenge of the Urban Underclass.
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Nathan, Richard P. – Journal of Negro Education, 1989
Summarizes themes of welfare reform in America and policy shifts that have resulted in the introduction of state-focused workfare programs. (MW)
Descriptors: Employment Programs, Employment Services, Poverty Programs, Social Agencies
The General Equilibrium Impact of Alternative Antipoverty Strategies.
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Bishop, John H. – Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 1979
The paper specifies mathematically the demand and supply functions for interacting factor markets to characterize the impact of alternative antipoverty programs. Wage subsidies were found to be the most transfer-efficient, implying that education and training is the most cost-effective means of aiding the low-skilled. (MF)
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Economic Research, Employment Programs, Input Output Analysis