Self-Employment Training Programs for the Poor

Authors

  • Steven Balkin Roosevelt University

Abstract

 

As a strategy to help law income people create their awn jobs, numerous training programs have been developed to assist the poor to start a small business. This effort is becoming widespread in both the U.S. and Europe. While there seems to be a consensus of what a self-employment training program should contain, the appropriateness of the typical program, for low income people with severe educational deficiencies, is questioned. A typology for differentiating self-employment training programs  is generated and their distribution is described from a survey of self-employment training programs for low income people  in the United  States.

 

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1990-06-03

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Self-Employment Training Programs for the Poor. (1990). Journal of Small Business Strategy (archive Only), 1(2), 47-57. https://libjournals.mtsu.edu/index.php/jsbs/article/view/226