This document presents testimony delivered before the House Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families on the economic status of Hispanic children and families in the United States. The speaker, a senior policy analyst at the National Council of La Raza, focuses on the strengths of Hispanic families, the economic challenges they face, and…

In 1983, a survey was conducted by the Church World Service (CWS) Immigration and Refugee Program to determine how well refugees recently resettled through this organization were adjusting to this country and the extent of their sponsors' contribution to the resettlement effort. A total of 1,666 sponsors and 523 refugees returned the…

Because schools are often the biggest employers in rural areas, it may make sense for rural schools to initiate economic development partnerships with the community, rather than wait for business to take the initiative, as is more commonly the case with urban school-business partnerships. This booklet reports findings of a national research…

Harvard Watch asserts that withholding essential information from public scrutiny is not uncommon at Harvard University. Maintaining that Harvard has reversed its position from extolling the virtues of public disclosure to one of imposing secrecy, the document suggests that this about face is linked to the university's recent collaboration with…

In September 1988, the Public Library/Trustees Section of the Kansas Library Association, with the support of the School of Library and Information Management at Emporia State University and the Kansas State Library, held a conference on economic vitality. Following a "Review and Preview" by Martha Hale, Dean of the School of Library and…

This study identifies the characteristics of both successful small businesses and their entrepreneurial owners in a 14-county area of the Adirondack North Country Association (ANCA). Of the 100 survey respondents representing successful small businesses, 50% had been in business for less than 14 years; 38% were in manufacturing; 48% employed more…

The economic evolution of American women from the colonial era to 1984 is examined. The labor-scarce environment of the colonial era gave women access to any occupation they wished, e.g., field work, household manufacturing. With the Industrial Revolution, 1820-1865, the role of women changed. Industrialists hired women because they would work for…

The proceedings of this first national conference contain papers on a number of issues concerning the employment of Black Americans with disabilities. Topics include: perspectives of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission perspective, the Rehabilitation Services Administration, the National Council on the Handicapped and the Health and Human…

This book is about the Portuguese who immigrated from the Azores Islands to the United States during the years 1800-1870, 1870-1920, and 1957-1982. The earliest Portuguese immigrants were employed in the whaling industry, and settled in New England and California. Another major concentration can be found in the Hawaiian Islands, where they were…

This study was requested (by Representatives Charles B. Rangel and Harold Ford) in August 1984, to explore the factors which influence the poverty rate among children. Researchers were asked to examine demographic trends, economic factors, government policies, and other phenomena which could help explain why, despite increased government…

In 1965, Congress passed a law making it possible for as many as 20,000 Chinese per year to emigrate to America. Social, economic and cultural problems arose as a result of this decision. The problems in U.S. Chinese communities include: the legal status of the Chinese Americans; how to meet social service and educational needs in Chinatown, New…

Although off-reservation economic development programs have been emphasized in the past, the Navajo Tribe also needs to emphasize on-reservation economic development in order to prevent the loss of well-educated Indian youth who leave frustrating on-reservation Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) jobs to aid outside enterprises in the mining of natural…

THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN DROPOUTS AND ADULT ILLITERATES IN 131 OF THE LARGEST CITIES IN THE UNITED STATES WERE COMPARED TO SEE IF THESE DIFFERENCES WERE ASSOCIATED WITH SELECTED FEATURES OF THE LOCAL ECONOMIES AND SOCIAL STRUCTURES. AS A PART OF THE STUDY, A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS WAS MADE OF THE EFFECTS OF VARIOUS PROGRAMS TO PREVENT OR TO…

The essay explores the extent to which poverty exists among the residents of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands. The sequence followed in this analysis is an initial clarification of some conceptual perspectives surrounding the problem followed by a survey of current economic conditions and growth potential for the Borderlands region. Following a brief…

In October 1970, the commission published its first of three across-the-board evaluations of the Federal Government's effort to end discrimination against American minorities. In February 1972 the commission chairman and the director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) agreed that the commission would provide OMB with a summary of Federal…