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Residual Effects on Students of a College Poverty Immersion Experience
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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
The Impact of Federal Antipoverty Policies.
Brecher, Charles – 1973
Authored by a political scientist, the study focuses on the impact of two alternative policies, "political strategy" and "service strategy," designed to deal with the problem of poverty in American society. The central concern is the effect of the policies on the poor. The service strategy assumes that the poor differ from the…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Disadvantaged, Federal Aid, Federal Programs
Statement of Dr. Randall J. Olsen, Professor of Economics, Ohio State University, before the Subcommittee on Social Security and Family Policy, Senate Finance Committee, United States Senate.
Olsen, Randall J. – 1991
In order to study the persistence of poverty across generations with a view to developing or monitoring cross-generational poverty-reduction policies, social indicators to track dependency and deprivation of children are needed. Available data on the dependency and deprivation of children primarily describe the following characteristics of the…
Descriptors: Children, Data Collection, Disadvantaged Environment, Disadvantaged Youth