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Asset Building and Low income Families
Author | : Signe-Mary McKernan,Michael Wayne Sherraden |
Publsiher | : The Urban Insitute |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0877667543 |
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Low-income families have scant savings to cushion a job loss or illness, and can find economic mobility impossible without funds to invest in education, homes, or businesses. And though a lack of resources leaves such families vulnerable, income-support programs are often closed to those with a bit of savings or even a car. Considering welfare-to-work reforms, the increasingly advanced skill demands of the American workforce, and our stretched Social Security system, such an approach is inadequate to lift families out of poverty. Asset-based policies--allowing or even helping low-income families build wealth--are an increasingly popular strategy to facilitate financial stability.
State of Empowerment
Author | : Carolyn Barnes |
Publsiher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 179 |
Release | : 2020-03-09 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780472131648 |
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On weekday afternoons, dismissal bells signal not just the end of the school day but also the beginning of another important activity: the federally funded after-school programs that offer tutoring, homework help, and basic supervision to millions of American children. Nearly one in four low-income families enroll a child in an after-school program. Beyond sharpening students’ math and reading skills, these programs also have a profound impact on parents. In a surprising turn—especially given the long history of social policies that leave recipients feeling policed, distrusted, and alienated—government-funded after-school programs have quietly become powerful forces for political and civic engagement by shifting power away from bureaucrats and putting it back into the hands of parents. In State of EmpowermentCarolyn Barnes uses ethnographic accounts of three organizations to reveal how interacting with government-funded after-school programs can enhance the civic and political lives of low-income citizens.
A Roadmap to Reducing Child Poverty
Author | : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on National Statistics,Board on Children, Youth, and Families,Committee on Building an Agenda to Reduce the Number of Children in Poverty by Half in 10 Years |
Publsiher | : National Academies Press |
Total Pages | : 619 |
Release | : 2019-09-16 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780309483988 |
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The strengths and abilities children develop from infancy through adolescence are crucial for their physical, emotional, and cognitive growth, which in turn help them to achieve success in school and to become responsible, economically self-sufficient, and healthy adults. Capable, responsible, and healthy adults are clearly the foundation of a well-functioning and prosperous society, yet America's future is not as secure as it could be because millions of American children live in families with incomes below the poverty line. A wealth of evidence suggests that a lack of adequate economic resources for families with children compromises these children's ability to grow and achieve adult success, hurting them and the broader society. A Roadmap to Reducing Child Poverty reviews the research on linkages between child poverty and child well-being, and analyzes the poverty-reducing effects of major assistance programs directed at children and families. This report also provides policy and program recommendations for reducing the number of children living in poverty in the United States by half within 10 years.
Work Family Challenges for Low Income Parents and Their Children
Author | : Ann C. Crouter,Alan Booth |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 319 |
Release | : 2014-04-04 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 9781135623364 |
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The area of work and family is a hot topic in the social sciences and appeals to scholars in a wide range of disciplines. There are few edited volumes in this area, however, and this may be the only one that focuses on low-income families--a particularly important group in this era of welfare-to-work policy. Interdisciplinary in nature, the volume brings together contributors from the fields of psychology, social work, sociology, demography, economics, human development and family studies, and public policy. It presents important work-family topics from the point of view of low-income families at a time in history when welfare to work programs have become standard. Divided into four parts, each section addresses a different aspect of the topic, consisting of a big picture lead essay which is followed by three papers that critique, extend, and supplement the final paper. Many of the chapters address important social policy issues, giving the volume an applied focus which will make it of interest to many groups. Serving to organize the volume, these issues and others have been encapsulated into four sets of anchor questions: *How has the availability, content, and stability of the jobs available for the working poor changed in recent decades? How do work circumstances for low-income families vary as a function of gender, family structure, race, ethnicity, and geography? What implications do these changes have for the widening inequality between the haves and have-nots? *What features of work timing matter for families? What do we know about the impacts of shift work, long hours, seasonal work, and temporary work on employees, their family relationships, and their children's development? *How are the child care needs of low-income families being met? What challenges do these families face with regard to child care, and how can child-care services be strengthened to support parents and to enhance child development? *How are the challenges of managing work and family experienced by low-income men and women? The primary audience for the book is academicians and their students, policy specialists, and people charged with developing and evaluating family-focused programs. The volume will be appropriate for classroom use in upper-level undergraduate courses and graduate courses in the fields of family sociology, demography, human development and family studies, women's studies, labor studies, and social work.
Joint Task Force on Home Ownership for Low Income Families
Author | : Nova Scotia. Joint Task Force on Home Ownership for Low Income Families |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Home ownership |
ISBN | : OCLC:229077328 |
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This is the report of a Nova Scotia task force that investigated home ownership by people on low or fixed incomes, specifically the following: the methods by which seniors could be assisted in maintaining & retaining their own homes; the need for rehabilitation of housing held by low-income families; and the opportunities available to provide assistance to gain home ownership for people on social assistance or Old Age Security. After an introduction on the task force, chapter 2 summarizes presentations heard from developers, housing & social service officials, and others regarding programs available to Nova Scotians on low incomes. Chapter 3 outlines government housing programs, including those involving phased housing, assisted home ownership, self-help housing, family public housing, home repairs, and neighbourhood improvement. Appendices include a list of Nova Scotia Housing Commission housing programs, details on programs outlined in chapter 3, and a review of the literature on low income housing.
Mental Disorders and Disabilities Among Low Income Children
Author | : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Institute of Medicine,Board on Children, Youth, and Families,Board on the Health of Select Populations,Committee to Evaluate the Supplemental Security Income Disability Program for Children with Mental Disorders |
Publsiher | : National Academies Press |
Total Pages | : 472 |
Release | : 2015-10-28 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9780309376884 |
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Children living in poverty are more likely to have mental health problems, and their conditions are more likely to be severe. Of the approximately 1.3 million children who were recipients of Supplemental Security Income (SSI) disability benefits in 2013, about 50% were disabled primarily due to a mental disorder. An increase in the number of children who are recipients of SSI benefits due to mental disorders has been observed through several decades of the program beginning in 1985 and continuing through 2010. Nevertheless, less than 1% of children in the United States are recipients of SSI disability benefits for a mental disorder. At the request of the Social Security Administration, Mental Disorders and Disability Among Low-Income Children compares national trends in the number of children with mental disorders with the trends in the number of children receiving benefits from the SSI program, and describes the possible factors that may contribute to any differences between the two groups. This report provides an overview of the current status of the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders, and the levels of impairment in the U.S. population under age 18. The report focuses on 6 mental disorders, chosen due to their prevalence and the severity of disability attributed to those disorders within the SSI disability program: attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, oppositional defiant disorder/conduct disorder, autism spectrum disorder, intellectual disability, learning disabilities, and mood disorders. While this report is not a comprehensive discussion of these disorders, Mental Disorders and Disability Among Low-Income Children provides the best currently available information regarding demographics, diagnosis, treatment, and expectations for the disorder time course - both the natural course and under treatment.
Parent and Family Life Education for Low income Families
Author | : Louise Proehl Shoemaker |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 76 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : Child rearing |
ISBN | : UOM:39015072125332 |
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Joint Task Force on Home Ownership for Low Income Families
Author | : Nova Scotia. Joint Task Force on Home Ownership for Low Income Families |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Home ownership |
ISBN | : OCLC:229077328 |
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This is the report of a Nova Scotia task force that investigated home ownership by people on low or fixed incomes, specifically the following: the methods by which seniors could be assisted in maintaining & retaining their own homes; the need for rehabilitation of housing held by low-income families; and the opportunities available to provide assistance to gain home ownership for people on social assistance or Old Age Security. After an introduction on the task force, chapter 2 summarizes presentations heard from developers, housing & social service officials, and others regarding programs available to Nova Scotians on low incomes. Chapter 3 outlines government housing programs, including those involving phased housing, assisted home ownership, self-help housing, family public housing, home repairs, and neighbourhood improvement. Appendices include a list of Nova Scotia Housing Commission housing programs, details on programs outlined in chapter 3, and a review of the literature on low income housing.