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Moving Up and Out: Poverty, Education, and the Single Parent Family: Poverty, Education and the Single Parent Family by Lori Holyfield; Hillary Rodham Clinton is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Single parent families in the United States have almost tripled in the past few decades. A huge majority of these families are female headed. In American culture it is not so important that we all be equal so much as it is that we all have equal opportunities. Yet sometimes we turn a blind eye to those who need us most. In fact, when it comes to single parent families, it is as if the barriers are too great, the issues too complex. We wind up reducing the debate to its lowest common denominator. Ironically, it is the families who are most affected that get tangled in the political barbed wire and hidden behind numbing statistics. Moreover, community responses, those small grassroots organizations who care deeply and give whole-heartedly are seldom celebrated, seldom recognized for their empowering efforts. Moving Up and Out focuses on just such a program, the Arkansas Single Parent Scholarship Fund, which has since 1984 provided scholarships for single parents interested in obtaining their post-secondary education. In this story of a highly successful nonprofit, Lori Holyfield (herself a recipient of a scholarship) draws upon the voices of single parents to consider the barriers an

Who reads Moving Up and Out: Poverty, Education, and the Single Parent Family: Poverty, Education and the Single Parent Family?

Author

Lori Holyfield; Hillary Rodham Clinton

Publisher

Temple University Press : Eurospan, distributor

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9781282658486

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Education, Science, Sociology