The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) of 1996 fundamentally changed the nation's social welfare system, replacing a federal entitlement program for low-income families, called Aid to Families with ...
"Throughout the symposium the future evolution of the American federal system was debated," says the book's summary.
The Local Fiscal Effects of Illegal Immigration workshop selected six studies for analysis.
The Wage Carrot and the Pension Stick: Retirement Benefits and Labor Force Participation. Kalamazoo, Mich.: W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research. Kruse, D.L. 1993. Profit Sharing: Does It Make a Difference? Kalamazoo, Mich.
This volume of papers contains reviews and syntheses of existing evidence bearing on the demographic impacts of welfare and ideas for how to evaluate new state-level reforms.
National Research Council, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Commission on Behavioral and ... 161 defined, 86n.2 and developmental outcomes, xvi, 89-90 education, 87, 89,90, 102 experience in child care, 87, ...
Research from the Evaluation of NAEP National Research Council, Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and ... These two major dimensions (“fields of science” and “ways of knowing and doing science”) were also uncovered from the ...
SCHOOL FINANCE LITIGATION IN THE NAME OF EDUCATIONAL EQUITY Coons, J.E., W.H. Clune, and S.D. Sugarman 1969 Educational opportunity: A workable constitutional test for state financial structures. California Law Review 57(2):305-421.
This volume explores the increasing demographic diversity of the workforce, the fluidity of boundaries between lines of work, the interdependent choices for how work is structured-and ultimately, the need for an integrated systematic ...
This book will be important to corporate leaders, executives, and managers; faculty and students in organizational performance and the social sciences; business journalists; researchers; and interested individuals.
This book provides the most up-to-date information available on the prevalence of pathological and problem gambling in the United States, including a look at populations that may have a particular vulnerability to gambling: women, ...
The crucial data needed to assess the U.S. position are unavailable. This volume explores significant shortcomings in U.S. data on international capital transactions and their implications for policymakers.
1996 Shaping Suburbia: How Political Institutions Organize Urban Development. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. Logan, John, and Mark Schneider 1982 Governmental organizations and city/suburb income inequality.
Third, since many public programs and debates pertain to the economic sphere of life, it is important to have a time-series measure of economic deprivation. If a broader concept for the official "poverty" measure were adopted, ...
This volume will be useful to organizations involved in research, social service agencies, child advocacy groups, and researchers.
This book presents the latest information on the prevalence, incidence, and costs of musculoskeletal disorders and identifies factors that influence injury reporting.
Crime Victims with Developmental Disabilities summarizes the workshop and addresses the following issues: (1) the nature and extent of crimes against individuals with developmental disabilities; (2) the risk factors associated with ...
By focusing attention on individuals rather than on aggregates, this book takes a novel approach to studying criminal behavior.
Pp. 97–111 in K.C. Holden and W.L. Hansen, eds., The End of Mandatory Retirement: Effects on Higher Education. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. Gajda, A.J. 1989 Long-term care insurance. Employee Benefits Journal 14(2):10–16.
This volume will be of great interest to policymakers, social services providers, health care professionals, police and court officials, victim advocates, researchers, and concerned individuals.