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Firmin, Michael W.; Markham, Ruth Lowrie; Stultz, Kurt J.; Johnson, Heidi J.; Garland, Elizabeth P. – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2016
The authors report the results of a phenomenological, qualitative research study involving 20 students who participated in a weekend poverty immersion experience. Analysis of the tape-recorded interviews included coding, checks for internal validity, and the generation of themes common to most of the research participants. Two overall results were…
Descriptors: College Students, Immersion Programs, Poverty, Outcomes of Education
King, Jill – 1976
This technical paper describes the latest consumer expenditure survey for the period of 1972 to 1974. The survey is a comprehensive source of detailed information on the expenditure patterns and savings behavior of American consumers in relation to their income and other characteristics. The first part of the paper describes the most recent…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Census Figures, Consumer Economics, Food
Harkins, Arthur M.; Woods, Richard G. – 1969
Indian leaders in Minneapolis are frequently those Indians who are in favor with the non-Indian population; who are employed in the poverty program area; and who have assumed leadership roles for the benefit of non-Indians, self, and select cronies. As Indian spokesman, they have opposed public assistance in the form of educational programs and…
Descriptors: Activism, Adjustment (to Environment), American Indians, Behavior Patterns