Poverty
Texts
"From
Poverty to Self-Sufficiency: Role of Postsecondary Education in Welfare
Reform"
A Report from the Center for Women Policy Studies (2002) and a Fact
Sheet (April 2003)
"NYC
Agrees to Education for Welfare Recipients"
Article discusses the city of New York's legal settlement that will
permit welfare recipients to pursue higher education and training
programs. Advocates hope the victory will increase access to education
for women on welfare nationwide. By Luchina Fisher, Women'sENews
"Is
Work Enough? The Experiences of Current and Former Welfare Mothers
Who Work"
This report, issued by the Manpower Research Demonstration
Corporation (MRDC), details the experiences of working mothers
who were formerly on welfare. The report is drawn from survey data
and ethnographic interviews collected by the Project on Devolution
and Urban Change.
"A
Smoother Path to Higher Education: Constructing Policies and Programs
That Support Low-Income Women"
Article overviews the debate surrounding how to create programs that
support and low-income women and provides useful resources and statistics.
By Fern Marx, in On
Campus With Women (Spring/Summer, 2004)
Modified
Monopoly: Experiencing Social Class Inequality
by Morten G. Ender, United States Military Academy in Academic Exchange
Quarterly Summer 2004 ISSN 1096-1453 Volume 8, Issue 2
Websites
Institute
for Women's Policy Research
Includes research reports (pdf documents) on such topics as
status of women in the 50 states, paid family leave, effects of
welfare reform on homelessness, gender gap in pension coverage,
etc.
Minimum
Wage Info
Welfare
history
Economic
Policy Institute
National
Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP)
A nonprofit, nonpartisan research and policy organization at Columbia
University. Our mission is to identify and promote strategies that
prevent child poverty in the United States and that improve the lives
of low-income children and families. Nearly 40 percent of American
children live in families with incomes below 200 percent of the federal
poverty level—the amount needed for most families to be economically
self-sufficient. We know that poverty is not immutable and that public
policies can make a difference.
Inequality.org
A nonprofit organization based in New York City. Our mission is,
first of all, to illuminate the causes and multidimensional consequences
of the growing inequality of wealth, income, power and opportunity
in America; and second, to move this critical national problem
onto the front burner of American politics and public discourse
CEO
Salaries and Compensation
World
Bank: Inequality, Poverty, and Socio-economic Performance
This site aims to be a resource on: (a) the relationship between
distributional dynamics, economic growth, and poverty reduction;
(b) the effect inequality might have on social outcomes and behaviors;
and (c) current discussions and methodologies that might be useful
for operational and research work.
freehighered.org
The United States has become a nation of educational haves and have-nots.
Tuition costs are skyrocketing while real incomes have remained
stagnant. Aid programs based on financial need continue to decrease.
Students borrow money and then face unmanageable debt when they
finish college. Higher education should be available to everyone;
it should not be limited by financial considerations. This is the
basic and simple idea that underlies the Free Higher Education
campaign. This campaign – coordinated by the Debs-Jones-Douglass
Institute – has been endorsed by numerous academic and labor
organizations.
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