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Evaluation Of The Impact Of Wisconsin's Learnfare Experiment On The School Attendance Of Teenagers Receiving Afdc (1992), John Pawasarat, Lois M. Quinn, Frank Stetzer
Evaluation Of The Impact Of Wisconsin's Learnfare Experiment On The School Attendance Of Teenagers Receiving Afdc (1992), John Pawasarat, Lois M. Quinn, Frank Stetzer
ETI Publications
In June 1988 the Wisconsin legislature authorized that an independent evaluation of the state’s “Learnfare” experiment be conducted, and in July 1989 the Employment and Training Institute secured the contract for this evaluation after a competitive bidding process. This report meets the requirement of the contract to provide a report on the state’s activities during the first two years of the “Learnfare” federal waiver. The “Learnfare” evaluation design approved by the state and federal governments in December, 1989, for completion on June 30, 1993, is testing four main hypotheses: that “Learnfare” increases the total school attendance of teenage AFDC recipients, …
The Labor Market Experience Of Young African American Men From Low-Income Families In Wisconsin (1992), Harold M. Rose, Ronald S. Edari, John Pawasarat, Lois M. Quinn
The Labor Market Experience Of Young African American Men From Low-Income Families In Wisconsin (1992), Harold M. Rose, Ronald S. Edari, John Pawasarat, Lois M. Quinn
ETI Publications
This research study provides empirical data on the employment experience of young African American men who entered the Wisconsin labor force in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Its goal was to examine the early labor force experience of 17,216 young men from poor families, matching state wage databases against individuals identified in the state income maintenance system (i.e., households applying for or receiving food stamps, AFDC or medical assistance, 1987-1989). The study analyzed 36,005 jobs held by the study population over five quarters. The vast majority of African American men in their early twenties who were employed were relegated …
The Employment Status Of Young Adult Black Males Residing In Poverty Households: Recent Milwaukee County Experience, Harold M. Rose
The Employment Status Of Young Adult Black Males Residing In Poverty Households: Recent Milwaukee County Experience, Harold M. Rose
ETI Publications
Harold Rose, UWM professor of Geography and Urban Studies, examined the findings of the Employment and Training Institute analysis of employment held by 8,479 young African American males from Wisconsin families seeking or receiving public assistance (AFDC, food stamps, and/or medical assistance) in 1987-1989. Rose discusses the findings in light of a wide variety of perspectives by drawing on national literature addressing social and economic changes in the 1980s, welfare dependency, conditions in inner city Milwaukee, labor force participation rates, extended presence of young black males in parental households, employment sectors, subpopulations’ earnings history, attachment to the labor force, school …
The Labor Market Experience Of Young African American Men From Low-Income Households, Ronald S. Edari
The Labor Market Experience Of Young African American Men From Low-Income Households, Ronald S. Edari
ETI Publications
The target population for this study is 5,800 young African American males living in households where one or more members applied for public assistance. Their employment records are tracked for 39 months. The critical question was to examine what happened to these youths upon reaching maturity. Dr. Ronald Edari, UWM Professor of Sociology and Urban Studies, observes that while modest in scope, this paper is intended to counter-balance in some measure the recent voluminous literature on work and welfare, whose conservative thrust has tended to focus on the debilitating characteristics of individuals rather than industries. The paper examines employment, earnings …