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	Disadvantaged - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The current economy in the United States is one that has divided the rich and the poor, with the rich taking the bulk of the gains in productivity of the last several decades.
		The majority of the most truly disadvantaged people live in the developing world with no or insufficient readily available running water, electricity or sanitation.
		A current problem for the richest nations is the fact that many terrorists come from parts of the world where they have limited opportunities for advancement.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Disadvantaged (299 words)

	JVTE v14n1: EFFECTS OF ECONOMIC DISADVANTAGED STATUS AND SECONDARY VOCATIONAL EDUCATION ON ADOLESCENT WORK EXPERIENCE ...
		Students experiencing economic disadvantage have been targeted for special assistance in vocational education because they constitute almost one-quarter of the U.S. school population, and of a growing realization that poverty can have a tremendous impact on the ability to learn (Kozol, 1991; Smith et al., 1995).
		Disadvantaged youth, at all levels of program involvement, were twice as likely to aspire to some type of 2-year postsecondary education than nondisadvantaged peers.
		For example, one way to address potential problems of disproportionate enrollment of disadvantaged youth or of lowered educational and occupational aspirations is to involve economically disadvantaged adolescents and those in vocational programs in transition planning efforts that identify specific postcollege occupational and educational alternatives that realistically reflect ability and interest.
	scholar.lib.vt.edu /ejournals/JVTE/v14n1/JVTE-4.html (7497 words)

	Married and Poor: Basic Characteristics of Economically Disadvantaged Couples in the U.S. - Working Paper
		Some aspects of disadvantage may operate through individual- or couple-level characteristics (e.g., growing up in a family headed by a single parent with low education, low current family income), while others operate through neighborhood-level characteristics (e.g., few married couples in the community to serve as role models).
		The fragility of marriages among disadvantaged couples is one strong rationale for efforts to strengthen marriage in low-income populations.
		In this paper, we have provided an initial descriptive appraisal of the population of disadvantaged married couples in the U.S. Comparing couples along several indicators of economic disadvantage, we have looked at marriage entries and exits, at the timing of first parenthood relative to marriage, at demographic and economic characteristics, and at marital quality.
	www.mdrc.org /publications/393/workpaper.html (5782 words)

	DOT OSDBU/MRC \| Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Program General Info. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The disadvantaged owners must be U.S. Citizens (13 C.F.R. Owners of firms who are women and are not members of one of the designated groups presumed to be socially disadvantaged under 13 C.F.R. § 124.103(b), must provide personal statements relating to their individual social disadvantaged status as required by 13 C.F.R. §124.103(c)(2)(ii).
		Disadvantaged owners of firms must have a net worth less than $250,000, must lack adequate access to credit and capital, and may not have made any asset transfers within the past 2 years contrary to the requirements of 13 C.F.R. §124.104 (c).
		Firms, their disadvantaged owners, or the disadvantaged owners’ family members must not own more than 20 percent equity ownership interest in another 8(a) BD firm as required by 13 C.F.R. §124.105(g).
	osdbuweb.dot.gov /business/dbe/memofunder.cfm (2331 words)

	Center for Research on Effective Schooling for Disadvantaged Students (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The improvement of education for disadvantaged students is a formidable task requiring research and development in multiple areas.
		The mission of the Center for Research on Effective Schooling for Disadvantaged Students (CDS) was to significantly improve the education of disadvantaged students at each level of schooling through new knowledge and practices produced by thorough scientific study and evaluation.
		Disadvantaged children who are succeeding against the odds illustrate the concept of resilience and move education research toward studying the protective mechanisms operating at key turning points in their lives that help them be resilient.
	www.csos.jhu.edu /otherlinks/cds/cds.html (10093 words)

	Disadvantaged Business Enterprise
		Section 1101(b) of the act (Disadvantaged Business Enterprises) states except to the extent that the Secretary determines otherwise, not less than 10% of the amounts made available for any program under Titles I, III, and V of this act shall be expended with small business concerns owned and controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals.
		The integrity of DOT's Disadvantaged Business Enterprise program depends to a large extent upon the establishment of systematic procedures to ensure that only bona fide small disadvantaged business firms are certified to participate in DOT federally assisted programs.
		The DOT Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Regulations 49 CFR Part 23 and 49 CFR Part 26 place primary responsibility for the certification process upon State Transportation Agencies, which are tasked with ensuring only bona fide disadvantaged firms are certified.
	www.dotcr.ost.dot.gov /asp/dbe.asp (2181 words)

	A Thinking Development Approach For Working with Disadvantaged Students
		Those of us who share a passion for helping the disadvantaged and a strong belief that education is a, or the, key to reducing inequity, need to step back and reexamine many of our fundamental assumptions about how to best help the disadvantaged.
		In classrooms with a large number of educationally disadvantaged students it is impossible to provide each student the extensive interaction opportunities needed to develop the sense of understanding in the context of a full sized classroom—just as it is impossible to have in depth conversations with 30 guests at a party.
		Having disadvantaged students succeed in thinking-in-content is the desired end, one that is achievable.
	www.newhorizons.org /spneeds/inclusion/systems/pogrow.htm (5925 words)

	Archived: Center for Research on the Education of Disadvantaged Students
		Center Description: The proposed mission of the Center was to significantly improve the education of disadvantaged students at each level of schooling through new knowledge and practices.
		The working definition of "educationally disadvantaged" students are students who are not succeeding or are underachieving in school due to insufficient educational experiences in at least one of the three domains of school, family, and community.
		The thrust of the Center's programs was its use of scientific designs, measures, and methods to provide clear tests of the true impact of new educational approaches and to provide empirical evidence on how to improve the education of disadvantaged students under different school conditions.
	www.ed.gov /offices/OERI/At-Risk/cds1r.html (382 words)

	ADB to Promote Greater Empowerment for Nepal's Most Disadvantaged Women (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The loan, for the Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women Project, will target women who have not benefited from past development projects in 15 of the country's poorest and most disadvantaged districts in the Midwestern and Far Western regions and Central Region, where gender discrimination is pervasive and deep.
		They are further disadvantaged by a lack of awareness of their legal rights and opportunities.
		The Department of Women Development of the Ministry of Women, Children and Social Welfare is the executing agency for the project, which is due to completed at the end of 2009.
	www.adb.org /Media/Articles/2004/6515_nepal_women?RegistrationID=7279 (795 words)

	Scholarships for Disadvantaged Students
		Scholarship applicants can apply only at schools that participate in the Scholarships for Disadvantaged program and interested students must contact the student financial aid office at the school he/she is enrolled in or plans to apply to for admission.
		The Scholarships for Disadvantaged Students program contributes to the diversity of the health professions students and practitioners.
		The program provides funding to eligible health professions and nursing schools to be used for scholarships to students from disadvantaged backgrounds who have financial need for scholarships and are enrolled, or accepted for enrollment, as full-time students at the eligible schools.
	www.apa.org /ed/sdsprogltr.html (686 words)

	Toolbox - Case Study: San Francisco Bay Area, California - Disadvantaged Versus Not Disadvantaged Neighborhoods (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Figure 4 and Figure 5 illustrate changes in accessibility for disadvantaged and not disadvantaged neighborhoods, as a result of the plan.
		In contrast, disadvantaged neighborhoods appear to benefit slightly more in terms of automobile accessibility (but again, are starting from a lower baseline).
		One interpretation of these findings is that the RTP decreases the relative differences in accessibility between disadvantaged and not disadvantaged neighborhoods, for both highway and transit modes.
	www.fhwa.dot.gov /planning/toolbox/sanfrancisco_application_disadvantaged.htm (338 words)

	Center for Development of Disadvantaged People--Home
		But most among them are disadvantaged lacking opportunities and guidence for exposing their capabilities or shakthi.
		Inorder to make avilable these needed opprtunities and guidence, the CDDP was formed by a group of dedicated and service minded women in the year 1988.
		To develop those who are disadvantaged educationally, economically, socially and culturally through self-help and self-governing collective development activities.
	www.cddponline.org (396 words)

	BMWBO: Disadvantaged Business Program Overview
		If a business claims Disadvantaged Business status because it is DGS-certified, provide a copy of the certificate, proof that the company does less than $20 million in gross annual revenues ($25 million for IT companies), and attest that the company has fewer than 100 employees.
		If a business claims Disadvantaged Business status because it has suffered racial or ethnic prejudice or cultural bias due to the business person’s color, ethnic origin, or gender, provided evidence that negative treatment occurred in American society, is chronic and substantial, and has hindered the business person’s entry or advancement in the business world.
		Commitments to Disadvantaged Businesses made at the time of proposal submittal or contract negotiation become part of the resulting contract and must be maintained throughout the term of the contract.
	www.dgs.state.pa.us /bcabd/cwp/view.asp?a=3&q=119353&pp=0 (1236 words)

	Online TDM Encyclopedia - Increasing Equity
		Strategies that tend to improve mobility and access for transportation disadvantaged groups (e.g., non-drivers, people with disabilities, people who cannot afford a personal automobile, children, etc.) are considered to support this criterion.
		Many TDM strategies can benefit disadvantaged people by improving their Transportation Options and increasing transportation affordability for those with physical disabilities or other special mobility needs.
		This strategy tends to improve Accessibility for people who are transportation disadvantaged and depend on walking, cycling and transit.
	www.vtpi.org /tdm/tdm99.htm (2654 words)

	The Truly Disadvantaged
		The truly disadvantaged have retreated to lives of helplessness and hopelessness.
		Incarceration rates for this group of young males are also rising and further depressing opportunities for two-parent families to emerge from the truly disadvantaged.
		The social and economic problems of the truly disadvantaged are concerns to all.
	www.joe.org /joe/1990summer/tt1.html (560 words)

	Final Report of the White House Task Force for Disadvantaged Youth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		In April 2003, the Task Force presented the President with an initial overall assessment of the Federal response to failure among disadvantaged youth.
		In October 2003, the Task Force released its Final Report, presenting a national youth policy framework designed to support all young people in growing up to be healthy and safe and ready to participate in work, college, military service, marriage, family, parenting, and civic engagement and service.
		To promote these positive outcomes for disadvantaged youth, the Task Force recommends improving Federal programs through better management, better accountability, better connections, and giving priority to the neediest youth.
	www.ncfy.com /whreport.htm (284 words)

	Small and Disadvantaged Business Program (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The full utilization of Small Disadvantaged Business (SDB) in the DOD Acquisition Program has been determined to be in the national interest.
		The Congress recognized this interest in its passage of the Small Business Act, as amended by Public Law (P.L.) 95-507, 24 October 1978, which set the framework for increasing the level of participation of SDBs in the Federal Acquisition Program.
		Section 8(a) of the Small Business Act authorizes SBA to enter into contracts with Government agencies and to arrange for performance of such contracts by awarding subcontract to to firms eligible for program participation.
	www.dscc.dla.mil /Programs/SADBU (236 words)

	Small, Small Disadvantaged and Women-Owned Business Concerns Policy Statement and Program
		Establishment of criteria for determining the acceptability of small, small disadvantaged and women-owned business concerns seeking to provide goods or services to the University, which criteria will assure that such concerns qualify for University contracts commensurate with the merits of their offerings and their proven qualifications or demonstrated performance.
		Setting goals for the utilization of small and small disadvantaged business concerns in the purchase of goods or services necessary for the fulfillment of federal contracts with the advice and consent of the Committee.
		When a bid from a small, small disadvantaged or women-owned business concern has been rejected for non-responsiveness or non-responsibility, assisting that firm upon request in understanding requirements for responsiveness and responsibility so that the firm may be able to qualify for future awards.
	www.columbia.edu /cu/opg/policies/small-bus.html (1791 words)

	Nursing
		The Scholarships for Disadvantaged Students program provides scholarships to full-time, financially needy students from disadvantaged backgrounds, enrolled in health professions and nursing programs.
		To apply for this loan, contact the student financial aid office at the school where you intend to apply for admission or where you are enrolled.
		The program provides for repayment of education loans in amounts up to $20,000 for each year of service, for individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds who agree to serve as faculty members at eligible health professions and nursing schools.
	bhpr.hrsa.gov /dsa/pages/nu.htm (287 words)

	Increasing the benefits to disadvantaged groups in multistakeholder negotiations
		Especially disadvantaged are those groups with limited power to influence decisions, such as forest dwellers or Australian Aborigines, because of their low social status, lack of representation in public forums or poor negotiating skills.
		Experience has shown that the benefits that disadvantaged groups receive from multistakeholder negotiations depend on how they are done.
		Multistakeholder negotiations can be useful under many circumstances but disadvantaged groups risks control by more powerful groups.
	www.cifor.cgiar.org /docs/_pf/1/_ref/highlights/multistakeholder.htm (382 words)

	Augusta Disadvantaged Business Enterprise - ARC Article 7 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Those socially disadvantaged whose ability to compete in the free enterprise system has been impaired due to diminished capital and credit opportunities as compared to others in the same business area who are not socially disadvantaged.
		A small business enterprise which has its principal office and place of doing business in Augusta-Richmond County which is not dominant in its field of operation and is regarded as small in size as measured by its annual gross receipts being less than $500,000 (except as provided in § 1-10-48 for banking institutions).
		It is the policy of the Augusta-Richmond County Commission, other Augusta-Richmond County officials, and employees that all necessary and reasonable steps shall be taken to ensure that disadvantaged business enterprises including small business enterprises have the maximum opportunity to compete for and participate in all contracts and subcontracts.
	www.augustaga.gov /departments/dbe/ARC_code.asp (622 words)

	Small Disadvantaged Business Program (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The new certification process will categorize a small business as "disadvantaged" only if an SBA review finds the firm is owned and controlled by someone who is socially and economically disadvantaged.
		In the past, the government relied on each company to "self-certify" or to truthfully identify itself as disadvantaged.
		The preferences will apply only to those industries in which disadvantaged companies are underutilized according to Department of Commerce studies.
	www.va.gov /osdbu/programs/sdb.htm (370 words)

	HM Revenue & Customs: Stamp Taxes - Disadvantaged Areas Relief
		What is Disadvantaged Areas Relief and how do I claim it?
		Type in your postcode to find out if property is located in a qualifying area.
		Disadvantaged Areas Relief – Prior to 1 December 2003
	www.hmrc.gov.uk /so/dis_relief_menu.htm (62 words)

	Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization - HUD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		This program ensures that small and disadvantaged businesses, minority firms, and women-owned businesses can compete for and win a fair share of the contracts that HUD awards.
		HUD’s Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization (OSDBU) serves as an ombudsman for small businesses, minority firms, businesses owned by disadvantaged persons, and women-owned firms ("target businesses") to make sure that they get a fair share of HUD’s Federal contract awards—as mandated by the Small Business Act (SBA).
		Within this goal, there is a subgoal of 5 percent for small, disadvantaged businesses and minority businesses, and 5 percent for women-owned small businesses.
	www.hud.gov /progdesc/smallbiz.cfm (524 words)

	Megapoles Project: working on behalf of socially disadvantaged groups -- DALZIEL 55 (3): 154 -- Journal of Epidemiology ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Social disadvantage can lead not only to poverty but can reduce a person's ability to engage effectively in mainstream society.
		The Socially Disadvantaged Group Sub-Network have developed a standard approach to project analysis.
		There are similar issues about disadvantaged groups in European capital cities, for instance refugees and immigrants flock
	jech.bmjjournals.com /cgi/content/full/55/3/154 (1146 words)

	Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Program - Wisconsin Department of Transportation
		The Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) Program's goal is to increase participation of firms owned by disadvantaged individuals in all federal aid and state transportation facility contracts.
		The act set a national goal of placing at least 10% of federal highway and transit funds with persons who qualify as disadvantaged small business operators.
		The Wisconsin Department of Transportation invests between $600 and $700 million annually in federal and state dollars for highway, airport and transit projects.
	www.dot.wisconsin.gov /business/engrserv/dbe-main.htm (149 words)

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