| The research portion of this thesis will examine a community college vocational training program designed to transition welfare mothers from welfare to work. While many women are poor for some of the same reasons that men are poor, they live in a job-poor area or they lack the necessary skills or education, much of women's poverty is due to two causes which are basically unique to females. First, women often must provide all or most of the support for their children. Secondly, women are at a disadvantage in the labor market.; This thesis will address the major strategies to combat poverty that have been implemented in the United States from the early 1800s to the 1990s. These strategies provide insights about why past social policies and proposed reforms have not addressed the current trend of the growing number of women and children born into poverty. |
