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1. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Literacy and Education Needs in Public Indian Housing Developments Throughout the Nation
Report to Congress, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Policy Development and Research, February 1992
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79
Publisher: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Keyword(s): Children, Academic Development; Educational Attainment; Employment, Youth; Hispanics; Income; Minorities; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading); Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT); Public Housing; Welfare

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Public housing residents are less well-educated than the U.S. population as a whole. The median educational attainment of public housing residents lags behind that of all U.S. renters by almost one and one-half years. Public housing residents fail to complete high school at more than twice the rate of other adults living in rental housing. Public housing residents graduate from college at one-sixth the rate of non-public housing residents. Minority residents of public and other federally assisted housing--blacks and Hispanics--lag further behind. These low educational attainments have discernible employment and income implications. Those with less education have lower employment rates, higher unemployment rates, a greater likelihood of being entirely out of the labor force, and, most significantly, low earnings and family incomes. The educational deficits of the parents appear to extend to their children: children of federally assisted housing residents lag behind other U.S. youth on a number of measures of academic performance. Moreover, there is a strong correlation between the academic attainment of parents and the academic performance of their children. Because there was no data source directly addressing the educational status of residents of housing sponsored by Indian Housing Authorities, the report presents data on the entire American Indian and Alaska Native population. The data show that these groups also experience low educational attainment with its attendant consequences.
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Department of Housing and Urban Development. "Literacy and Education Needs in Public Indian Housing Developments Throughout the Nation." Report to Congress, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Policy Development and Research, February 1992.