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... on worker retention, particularly mothers who comprise an ever-growing proportion of the hig... both to demographics such as ethnicity, education, and income. The second strand is the econometric ... significant changes observed for single-parent families, perhaps reflecting no change in t... federal reform of welfare, creating block grants for states to administer largely as they please, s...
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... social conditions in which American mothers find themselves. (12) Though the conclusions I dra... tend to thrive in "cooperative" educational atmospheres, quite unlike the unique "adversative"...--whether professional or poor, married or single--will continue to be viewed as theirs alone until ...In an age when ultrasound grants us an unprecedented look at the unborn child and w...
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PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla., Nov. 3, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Bayat Foundation announced a 2010 Bayat Foundation Empowering Women Grant in the amount of US$10,000 to Women for Women International (WfWI) for their work supporting vulnerable women in Afghanistan with job skills training and small business support to improve their income earning potential.
One of three inaugural 2010 Bayat Foundation Empowering Women Grants, these funds will provide women who have survived the effects of war in Afghanistan with the resources they need to move out of crisis and poverty to lives of stability and self-sufficiency. These women include widows, victims of human trafficking, single mothers and refugees. On average, 96% of the participants have no education, 99% have no income and 93% live ...
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Deliberative democracy derives its moral urgency from universal ideals, but relies on tools that pose practical tradeoffs stemming from the particularities of place and time. I argue for transcending a technique-oriented mindset focused on single methods, using examples from a foundation project to engage lesser heard voices into policies for young children and their families. Case study data from eight California counties are analyzed to identify frequently used civic engagement tools and their strengths and limitations. Drawing on this evidence, and on democratic and administrative theory that envisions citizens and experts as co-creators of public work, I develop strategic understandings for improving deliberative practices. The managerial wisdom needed has less to do with being au c...
...Along with an adult education specialist, the author led a University of Califor... allocations to supplement the foundation grants. They hired linguistically or culturally attuned o... mailing list; articles in local Mothers' Club newsletters; asking community agencies, chil...
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... treatment of citizen fathers and citizen mothers violated Mr. Miller's Fifth Amendment equal protec...The biological differences between single men and single women provide a relevant basis for ... received her high school and college education in the Philippines. At least until after her 21st ...The statute itself grants citizenship automatically, and "at birth." And thi...
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... those of low-income students in higher education is clear when we consider practices that at best d... state level and, through a range of block grants, sanctions, and rewards, encouraged states to redu... when I first went to college as a single mother welfare recipient student in 1987, TANF res... with rhetoric that says that all single mothers are bad mothers and that as a nation we can only v...
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... administrative requirements for Federal grants and cooperative agreements and subawards to State,... awarded to institutions of higher education, hospitals, and other nonprofit organizations. Adu...It also means a single individual living alone. In-kind replacement means... or physically impaired, and unmarried mothers and their infants; group homes; halfway houses; or...
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... job training, job placement, and basic education classes for nonemployed current welfare recipients...This research was assisted by grants from the William T. Grant Foundation and National ...
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... elderly with about $60 a month, offered grants for the disabled, and improved access to educationn for the children of single mothers. He opened more than a dozen new schools i...
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...He argued that universal education would ameliorate class differences, leading to a m... current federal and state welfare laws, mothers without husbands are expected to work, with few ch... because it denies sexual citizenship to single persons, whatever their preference. Such an interp..., society demands many responsibilities and grants few rights; others are endowed with many rights an...