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Download full textTickamyer, Ann R.; Tickamyer, Cecil – 1987
This report examines the causes and effects of Appalachian poverty, focusing on education, unemployment, social services, and economic development. The data in the report were extracted from the 1980 U.S. Census. Although there has been a steady decline in Appalachian poverty rates since the landmark 1964 declaration of a War on Poverty,…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Change Strategies, Demography, Disadvantaged Environment
Kids Count Minnesota, Minneapolis. – 1995
This first annual report of Minnesota KIDS COUNT focuses on key indicators of children's well-being and details the condition of children in each of Minnesota's 87 counties. Minnesota KIDS COUNT--as part of a campaign by Children's Defense Fund-Minnesota and Congregations Concerned for Children to end child poverty in Minnesota--collects,…
Descriptors: Children, Community Programs, Cost Effectiveness, Disadvantaged Environment
Knitzer, Jane; Page, Stephen – 1996
In the past decade, there has been a sharp increase in awareness of how interventions that address multiple risk factors and target both children and their families can help ensure that children grow up healthy and able to learn. In 1995, the National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) undertook a project to "map" state initiatives…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Birth Weight, Child Health, Child Welfare
