10 research outputs found
\u3cem\u3eFor Crying Out Loud: Women\u27s Poverty in the United States.\u3c/em\u3e Diane Burton and Ann Withorn (Eds.). Reviewed by Tracy Maybrey, Western Michigan University.
No full textDiane Burton and Ann Withorn (Eds.), For Crying Out Loud: Women\u27s Poverty in the United States. Boston, MA: Southend Press, 1997. $ 22.00 papercover
Book Reviews
No full textThe Cost of Human Neglect: America\u27s Welfare Failure - HARREL R. RODGERS JR. - Reviewed by MICHAEL REISCH - pp. 239 Women in the Workplace: Proposals for Research and Policy Concerning the Conditions of Women in Industrial and Service Jobs - PAMELA ROBY - Reviewed by ANN WITHORN pp. 243 Social Welfare or Social Control? Some Historical Reflections on Regulating the Poor - WALTER I. TRATTNER - Values in Social Policy: Nine Contradictions - JEAN HARDY - An Immodest Agenda: Rebuilding America Before the 21st Century - AMITAI ETZIONI - Reviewed by MICHAEL HIBBARD - pp. 24
Friends or Foes? Nonprofits and the Puzzle of Welfare Reform
No full text Nonprofit human service agencies are in the middle of the welfare reform mess. They may have the opportunity to obtain more public dollars for delivering more services to low-income families, and from their position, they have the potential to be effective witnesses to what is happening. On the other hand, the effects of welfare reform on the constituencies they serve call for advocacy and challenging action that they do not know how to do. The author uses comments from interviews with workers in the system to argue that, if agencies are not very careful, it will be extremely hard for them to play a dependable role in whatever future welfare state evolves. </jats:p
Fulfilling Fears and Fantasies: The Role of Welfare in Right-Wing Social Thought and Strategy
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Mental health and academic achievement: the effect of self-efficacy
No full textAcademic success can be considered a core metric by which to measure the relative success of a youth's childhood as the skills conveyed and measured in school are such as to foster positive long-term outcomes. Therefore, all efforts ought to be made towards encouraging this achievement. School success however, is a complex phenomenon shaped by a wide variety of factors and many Latino adolescents are missing opportunities to develop their full potential in the United States educational system. The goal of this project was to present a perspective on students' relationship to their academic outcomes that emphasizes the role of the mental health and self-efficacy of Latino youth towards their learning and academic success. The present study examined the relationship between students' broad mental health risk, general self-efficacy, and achievement outcomes. The district in which this study was conducted has one of the lowest graduation rates in the state of New Jersey (under 60%) and reading and math testing scores ranking below the 15th percentile. The high school was comprised of 1397 students, grades 9 through 12 of whom 485 met criteria for further analysis by virtue of being Latino, completing the Pediatric Symptom Checklist (PSC) and the General Self-Efficacy Scale (GSE) as well as meeting other demographic criteria. The results of this study indicated that mental health risk's impact on academic achievement outcomes are mediated by perceived general self-efficacy. This finding appears most significantly for the relationship between internalizing symptoms and final Language Arts grade as well as GPA. Specifically, the current study found that when an adolescent's self-reported internalizing symptoms go up by 1, the indirect, mediated effect by self-efficacy is that final Language Arts grade goes down by .16 and GPA goes down by .01. Broadly, the effect sizes reflecting these findings are small, but add to the field suggesting that academic self-efficacy is a predictor of school success for Latino students. The findings here offer an important potential area for intervention that can and ought to be explored in furtherance of the goal of encouraging school achievement in at-risk populations.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical referencesby Gwyne Withorn Whit
The promise of welfare reform : political rhetoric and the reality of poverty in the twenty-first century /
No full textIncludes bibliographical references and index.Looking up the slippery slope : lessons from a lifetime of trying to figure out and fight poverty / Ann Withorn -- Neither accidental, nor simply mean-spirited : the context for welfare reform / Mimi Abramovitz -- Welfare reform : forward to the past / Alfred L. Joseph, Jr. -- Welfare reform in historical perspective / Joel Blau -- Lessons from Vermont / Margaret K. Nelson -- Welfare reform and the transformation of the U.S. welfare state / Michael Reisch -- Living economic restructuring at the bottom : welfare restructuring and low-wage work / Sandra Morgen ... [et al.] -- Welfare reform and the American dream / Laura R. Peck, Sarah Allen Gershon -- Welfare reform : what's poverty got to do with it? / Keith M. Kilty -- Microenterprise development, welfare reform, and the contradictions of new privatization / Nancy C. Jurik -- Welfare reform and housing retrenchment : what happens when two policies collide? / Jessica W. Pardee --^Changing the face of homelessness : welfare reform's impact on homeless families / Bart W. Miles, Patrick J. Fowler -- Ending single motherhood / Gwendolyn Mink -- Wedlock, worship, and welfare : the influence of right-wing think tanks and the Christian right on welfare reform / Ellen Reese -- Safety and self-sufficiency : rhetoric and reality in the lives of welfare recipients / Lisa D. Brush -- Welfare reform and the safety needs of battered women / Christine C. George -- Ever present, sometimes acknowledged, but never addressed : racial disparities in U.S. welfare policy / Susan T. Gooden, Nakeina E. Douglas -- That old black magic? : welfare reform and the new politics of racial implication / Sanford F. Schram -- The politics of citizenship and entitlement : immigrants, welfare, and the persistence of poverty / Lynn Fujiwara -- Weaving a safety net for immigrants post-PRWORA / Susan F. Grossman ... [et al.] --^Welfare as we should know it : social empathy and welfare reform / Elizabeth A. Segal -- Establishing respect for economic human rights / Kenneth J. Neubeck -- Welfare reform and the power of protest : quantitative tests of Piven and Cloward's "turmoil-relief" hypothesis / Eric Swank
