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Download full textBryant, Elizabeth Burke, Ed.; Walsh, Catherine Boisvert, Ed. – Rhode Island KIDS COUNT Issue Brief, 1996
These two Kids Count brief reports discuss issues related to the well-being of Rhode Island children. The first report identifies ways to measure the impact of state and federal welfare reform proposals on children who receive benefits through Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC). Potential measures of success for welfare reform include…
Descriptors: Children, Employed Parents, Nutrition, Parent Child Relationship
Dahlstrom, Sherryl M.; High, Rhonda L. – 1996
This Kids Count data book is the fourth to examine the well-being of Arkansas' children and notes trends from 1990 to 1995. The report's introductory sections include discussions of the potential impact of welfare reform on Arkansas' children, and present figures detailing the number of children affected by particular risk factors each week. The…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Abuse, Child Health, Child Neglect
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on the Budget. – 1983
This hearing focused on the impact of Reagan Administration budget policies on women and children, especially in entitlement programs such as Aid to Families with Dependent Children, food stamps, Medicaid, child nutrition, and social services. Oral testimony describing their own experiences and opinions was given by four female participants in the…
Descriptors: Black Family, Children, Federal Programs, Females
PDF pending restorationMississippi Kids Count, Jackson. – 1996
This data book for 1996 describes the condition of children in each of Mississippi's 82 counties, based on key indicators of child well-being. The first part of the report profiles child hunger in Mississippi, and discusses nutrition programs available to Mississippi's children, such as: the special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants and…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Birth Weight, Births to Single Women, Child Health
South East Regional Resource Center, Juneau, AK. – 1997
This survey examines the impact of reduced timber harvests and mill closures by the U.S. Forest Service on timber-dependent schools and communities in the Tongass National Forest in southeast Alaska. One purpose was to recommend educational programs and services that are necessary to remediate these impacts on children. Between 1990 and 1995,…
Descriptors: Children, Economic Impact, Educational Needs, Elementary Secondary Education
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on the Budget. – 1983
In this report of a hearing on the effects on children and youth of President Reagan's proposed budget cuts of means-tested entitlement programs, Linda S. McMahon, Associate Commissioner of the Office of Family Assistance, and Robert E. Leard, Acting Administrator of the Food and Nutrition Service at the Department of Agriculture, present the…
Descriptors: Children, Economically Disadvantaged, Federal Government, Federal Programs
Mississippi Kids Count, Jackson. – 1995
This data book for 1995 describes the condition of children in each of Mississippi's 82 counties. The conditions of neighborhoods in Mississippi's counties are examined as indicators of poverty. It is suggested that one of every six Mississippi children are growing in severely distressed neighborhoods. Additionally this data book provides county…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Birth Weight, Census Figures, Child Health
Oregon State Dept. of Human Resources, Salem. – 1996
This Children First for Oregon report, funded by a Kids Count grant from the Annie Casey Foundation, investigates state and countywide trends in the well-being of Oregon's children. The statistical report is based on 14 indicators of child well-being: (1) child abuse and neglect rates; (2) crimes against persons; (3) child death rate; (4) prenatal…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Births to Single Women, Child Abuse, Child Health
Bagby, Jane W.; And Others – 1988
Large percentages of preschool children in Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia live in poverty and receive no benefits from society's "safety nets." County estimates for unemployment and per capita income (1985-1987) indicate that economic conditions are most severe in central West Virginia, eastern Kentucky,…
Descriptors: Economic Research, Economically Disadvantaged, Federal Programs, Infants
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Ways and Means. – 1985
This is a transcript of a hearing held to examine the extent and causes of hunger in the United States. Witnesses presenting testimony included a Boston pediatrician, two representatives from the Physician Task Force on Hunger in America, the Chairman of the House Select Committee on Hunger, and a professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene…
Descriptors: Birth Weight, Eligibility, Hearings, Hunger
