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Download full textJoint Economic Committee, Washington, DC. – 1986
This study analyzes various measures of economic well-being to establish how these may have changed over time. It concludes that while most Americans have experienced progressively higher living standards in recent decades, an underclass group has emerged without the wherewithal to support itself or improve its economic situation. Government…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Economically Disadvantaged, Eligibility, Employment Patterns
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Finance. – 1984
These hearings examine ways of ensuring access to quality health care, especially for low-income persons ineligible for Medicaid. The problems of determining who the economically disadvantaged are, what services they are provided with, and how those services are provided and financed are all addressed. An Urban Institute researcher testifies that…
Descriptors: Access to Health Care, Displaced Homemakers, Economically Disadvantaged, Federal Legislation
Myers, Douglas D. – 1976
Regression analysis was employed to determine if there were any similarities between the tests administered to participants of the Mountain-Plains program, a residential, family-based education program developed to improve the economic potential and lifestyle of selected student families in a six-state area. The study compared the Wide Range…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Basic Skills, Career Education, Comparative Analysis
Troob, Charles D. – 1977
This study focuses on three areas: First it explains how funds for Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act are allocated. Second, it contrasts an achievement-based funding procedure, the CEMREL study, with the present poverty-based funding procedure, and third, it describes other ongoing research in this area. The formula currently…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Change Strategies, Compensatory Education, Definitions
Employment and Training Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. Office of Youth Programs. – 1980
The Youth Employment and Demonstration Projects Act of 1977 (YEDPA) authorized a range of research, evaluation, and demonstration activities to increase understanding of the employment problems of youth and to help determine the most effective policies and programs to address these problems. Although many programs, such as the War on Poverty and…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged Youth, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Planning
National Governors' Association, Washington, DC. – 1980
This volume is one of the products of the knowledge development effort implemented under the mandate of the Youth Employment and Demonstration Projects Act of 1977 (YEDPA). It provides an overview of FY 1979 planned projects funded in the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico under the Governors' statewide youth services grants…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged Youth, Economically Disadvantaged
Hennings, Patricia – 1978
This competency-based preservice home economics teacher education module on government housing programs is the second in a set of three modules on housing in economically depressed areas. (This set is part of a larger set of sixty-seven modules on the Management Approach to Teaching Consumer and Homemaking Education [MATCHE]--see CE 019 901-967.)…
Descriptors: Answer Keys, Competency Based Teacher Education, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Objectives
Employment and Training Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. Office of Youth Programs. – 1979
Focusing on follow-through, synthesis, dissemination, and application, this Youth Employment and Demonstration Projects Act plan for knowledge development in 1980 is divided into seven key sections. The first section presents projects which will require continued funding and refinement to realize their objectives. Section 2 provides a list of…
Descriptors: Career Education, Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged Youth, Economically Disadvantaged
Rhode Island State Dept. of Education, Providence. – 1974
This bulletin provides information on financial and participation statistics, including the number of programs, Title I programs, State compensatory education programs, and joint State and Title I funded programs. Children served are given in terms of grade, ethnic/language group characteristics, and public and non-public participation. Program…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Programs
Yokelson, Doris, Ed. – 1975
Part 2 of the second volume in a four volume collection, this document addresses income and employment, food stamps, economic development programs, and the work force. Listings included here are theories of unemployment; the food stamp program; the use of Economic Development Programs as antipoverty measures; the Rural Development Insurance Fund;…
Descriptors: American Culture, American Studies, Anthologies, Economic Factors
Office of Education (DHEW), Washington, DC. – 1971
Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), the largest Federal aid-to-education program, was passed in 1965 to provide financial assistance to local school districts in planning and operating special programs for educationally deprived children. It is a supplementary program, designed to upgrade the educational opportunities of…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Opportunities
Ward, Martha, Comp.; Barlow, Sarah W., Comp. – 1973
The handbook helps American Indians and Alaskan Natives learn about their rights under the Bureau of Indian Affairs General Assistance (GA) welfare program. This program is run by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) and is only for Alaskan Natives and Indians in 15 states: Alaska, Arizona, Colorado (Southern Ute Reservation only), Idaho, Minnesota…
Descriptors: American Indian Reservations, American Indians, Civil Rights, Economically Disadvantaged
Manpower Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1972
This second edition of an annual summary combines information about the research conducted under contract to the Manpower Administration and the experimental and demonstration programs under the direction of the Office of Research and Development. The merger of the research projects and development programs is now well established and is…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Economically Disadvantaged, Employment Programs, Federal Programs
Maxwell, Terrence A. – 1997
The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 places vast new information burdens on state and local governments and the nonprofit and private sectors. Three classes of problems confront program and information managers implementing welfare reform: developing information infrastructure, redesigning applications to…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adults, Data Analysis, Economically Disadvantaged
Colker, Laura J., Ed. – 1997
Founded by the federal government in 1966 as an educational research documentation network, the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) has evolved in both scope and philosophy over the past years. This publication is a tribute to the ERIC program as it enters its fourth decade. The contents, which were chosen to chronicle the progress of…
Descriptors: Alcohol Education, Bilingual Education, Child Welfare, Early Parenthood
