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Download full textHamilton, Gayle; Scrivener, Susan – Urban Institute, 2012
Increasing education among low-income parents is a vital component of policies to improve families' economic status. Educational attainment matters: between 1979 and 2005, wages for those with college and advanced degrees rose by 22 and 28 percent, respectively, while wages for high school graduates remained stagnant and wages for high school…
Descriptors: Welfare Recipients, Postsecondary Education, Low Income Groups, Parents
Schmit, Stephanie; Ewen, Danielle – Center for Law and Social Policy, Inc. (CLASP), 2012
Since its creation in 1965, Head Start has provided high quality early education and comprehensive support services to three- and four-year-olds in poor families. In addition to early learning opportunities, Head Start's comprehensive early childhood development program provides children and families with access to a range of services such as…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Early Childhood Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Federal Legislation
Cherlin, Andrew; Fomby, Paula; Angel, Ronald; Henrici, Jane – 2001
The 1996 welfare reform law restricted immigrants' eligibility for public assistance, although many states have at least partially restored their eligibility. However, about three-fourths of the children of non-citizen immigrants were born in the United States and are therefore eligible for all government benefits. This brief examines whether…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Children, Immigrants, Low Income Groups
Fisher, Kathleen; Dichter, Harriet; Yanoff, Shelly D.; Fynes, Steven E. – 2002
In the 5 years since welfare reform was enacted, the Watching Out for Children in Changing Times initiative in Philadelphia has been meeting with families receiving welfare and listening to their experiences. This report is the third in the series and details the experiences of 40 families. Information for the report was based on interviews…
Descriptors: Children, Family Financial Resources, Family Income, Family (Sociological Unit)
