Social Services and Youth & Families

Jean Ekins and the Family Learning Center (B)

Publication Date: January 01, 1988

During the 1978-79 school year, the state of Michigan turned down Jean Ekins' application for model-site designation of her Leslie, Michigan Family Learning Center. Ekins had started the program four years earlier within the Leslie public school...

Jean Ekins and the Family Learning Center (A)

Publication Date: January 01, 1988

During the 1978-79 school year, the state of Michigan turned down Jean Ekins' application for model-site designation of her Leslie, Michigan Family Learning Center. Ekins had started the program four years earlier within the Leslie public school...

Finding Black Parents: One Church, One Child

Publication Date: January 01, 1988

In 1980, the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services faced a crisis. Over 700 black children in Cook County, including 69 infants, waited for adoption while the agency was unable to find black parents. Director Gregory L. Color, with...

California Welfare Reform

Publication Date: January 01, 1987

In 1984, conservative secretary of the California Health and Welfare Agency David Swoap and liberal San Francisco assemblyman Art Agnos began to discuss work and job training programs that might shrink California's burgeoning welfare rolls and...

The Urban League and the Youth Subminimum Wage

Publication Date: January 01, 1986

In the spring of 1984, despite the economy's spectacular recovery from a severe recession, teenage unemployment remained a major problem: 19.4 percent of all teenagers and 44.8 percent of black youth, were jobless. At the urging of the Reagan...

Conflicting Findings: Evaluating WIC

Publication Date: January 01, 1986

This case is designed to foster discussion concerning a question public managers often face: How should one make decisions when available studies and data appear contradictory? A 1984 General Accounting Office (GAO) review found that existing...

Policy Advocacy: The Case of the Family Assistance Program (Part B: Abridged)

Publication Date: January 01, 1985

On August 8, 1969, President Nixon announced a plan to revamp the nation's public welfare system by abolishing the 35-year-old AFDC program and replacing it with his Family Assistance Plan, which would guarantee a $1,600 annual income for a...

Food Stamps

Publication Date: January 01, 1983

In 1982 the Reagan Administration proposed a $1.5 billion cut in the federal Food Stamp Program. The case examines the evolution of the food stamp program up to this point and then lays out the cost-cutting options available to the administrator...

Mary Anderson and the Women's Bureau: Hypothetical

Publication Date: January 01, 1981

In 1887 sixteen-year-old Mary Anderson and her sister left their native Sweden in search of better economic opportunities in the United States. This search led Anderson into the growing trade union movement in the book and shoe industries. This...

Mary Anderson and the Women's Bureau

Publication Date: January 01, 1981

In 1887 sixteen-year-old Mary Anderson and her sister left their native Sweden in search of better economic opportunities in the United States. This search led Anderson into the growing trade union movement in the book and shoe industries. This...

Mike Pertschuk and the Federal Trade Commission

Publication Date: January 01, 1981

In 1977 President Carter, pursuing his policy of appointing liberal public interest advocates to subcabinet posts, named Mike Pertschuk as chairman of the FTC. Pertschuk assumed command of a recently revitalized, aggressive bureaucracy. This...

Mike Pertschuk and the Federal Trade Commission (Sequel)

Publication Date: January 01, 1981

In 1977 President Carter, pursuing his policy of appointing liberal public interest advocates to subcabinet posts, named Mike Pertschuk as chairman of the FTC. Pertschuk assumed command of a recently revitalized, aggressive bureaucracy. This...