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U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics / U.S. Census Bureau.
Available online.
Latest edition of this annual publication reveals that "although the nation's poor were primarily children and adults who had not participated in the labor force during the year, 7.5 million were among the 'working poor.'"
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I have been working with a couple students in the Poverty Seminar this term on their research topics.
Both topics are challenging, but for different reasons.
One student would like to research U.S. television news coverage of poverty in foreign countries, and here is the research guide we came up with.
Another student is looking into discrimination in the U.S. criminal justice system, especially in sentencing. Here is that research guide.
Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation.
Available online.
"Over the past two decades, federal and state policymakers have dramatically reshaped the nation's system of cash welfare assistance for low-income families. During this period, there has been considerable variation from state to state in approaches to welfare reform, which are often collectively referred to as "welfare-to-work programs." To help states assess various program approaches in an informed way, this report draws on an extraordinary body of evidence: results from 28 benefit-cost studies of welfare-to-work programs based on random assignment evaluation designs."
Links will be maintained in several locations in the library Web site, including here.