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Download full textBarreras, Ricardo E., Comp. – 1998
Intended to encourage and facilitate research, policy development, and advocacy on issues relevant to those who are in poverty despite employment, this bibliography lists 145 articles and studies focusing on the working poor. Following a description of the search method and a guide to the bibliography, the references are divided into two sections.…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Child Welfare, Children, Day Care
Summers, Gene F., Comp.; And Others – 1993
During an extensive search for college curricula focused on rural poverty, the Rural Sociological Society's Task Force on Persistent Rural Poverty identified only a dozen such courses being taught in the United States today. This guidebook provides professors and instructors with a conveniently organized set of sample syllabi and instructional…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, Course Descriptions, Courses, Higher Education
Pressman, Steven – 1994
This bibliography is a comprehensive treatment of poverty in the United States. It summarizes the major economic, literary, sociological, historical, and other social-science literature written over the past century on this topic. In addition to general descriptions of the measurement, causes, and consequences of poverty, individual chapters…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Annotated Bibliographies, Children, Early Parenthood
Hallingby, Leigh, Comp. – 1989
This annotated bibliography for program operators, policymakers, academics, interested students, and other professionals describes materials related to young children and families in poverty, social welfare policies, and prevention programs. The major criteria for the inclusion of materials were that the subject matter be appropriate and that the…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Day Care, Early Childhood Education, Family Programs
Weinberg, Daniel; Germanis, Peter – 1988
Twenty years after the War on Poverty was launched, dependency on public support remains widespread. Part 1 of this report summarizes current research concerning the following issues affecting welfare programs: (1) evaluating the economic effects of welfare; (2) dynamics of dependency; (3) welfare and work; (4) welfare and family structure; (5)…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Community Programs, Employment Programs, Family (Sociological Unit)
deMoraes, Beatriz B. – 1997
The annotated bibliography cites 21 articles and legal documents relating to the effects of English-only policies on the quality and availability of health care for immigrants and limited English-speakers. Article topics include eviction of illegal immigrants from nursing homes, health care for undocumented aliens, welfare reform and care for…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Annotated Bibliographies, Civil Rights, Disabilities
