Sar A. Levitan

Background

Levitan, Sar A. was born on September 14, 1914 in Shiauliai, Lithuania. Came to the United States, 1931, naturalized, 1935. Son of Osher N. and Yocheved (Rapoport) Levitan.

Education

Bachelor of Science, City College of New York, 1937. Master of Arts, Columbia University, 1939. Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia University, 1949.

Career

Faculty George Washington University, Washington, 1967-1994. Director Center Social Policy Studies, research professor economics, 1967-1994. Consultant in field; chairman National Commission on Employment and Unemployment Statistics, 1977-1979.

Achievements

• Sar A. Levitan has been listed as a noteworthy economist, educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • Blue-collar workers: A symposium on middle America

    (Are America's blue-collar workers really trapped in a fin...)

  • Work is here to stay, alas

    (The earliest biblical insights into the character of man ...)

  • Child Care and ABCs, Too

    (1975 HARDCOVER (No Dust Jacket) - NEW - MINT CONDITION - ...)

  • A Second Chance: Training for Jobs

    (Ideas about job training, youth, etc. by two experts. Lev...)

  • More Than Subsistence: Minimum Wages for the Working Poor (Policy Studies in Employment & Welfare)

    (Book by Levitan, Professor Sar A.)

  • Old Wars Remain Unfinished: The Veteran Benefits System

    (Book by Levitan, Professor Sar A.)

  • Evaluating Federal Social Programs: An Uncertain Art

    (Book by Levitan, Sar A.)

  • Still a Dream : The Changing Status of Blacks Since 1960(Hardback) - 2014 Edition

    (New)

  • Evaluating Federal Social Programs: An Uncertain Art
  • Families in Flux: New Approaches to Meeting Workforce Challenges for Child, Elder and Health Care in the 1990s (Bna Special Report)
  • Beyond the Safety Net: Reviving the Promise of Opportunity in America
  • Working for the Sovereign (Policy studies in employment and welfare)
  • Human resources and labor markets: Employment and training in the American economy
  • Still a Dream: Changing Status of Blacks Since 1960
  • Employment and Earnings Inadequacy: A New Social Indicator (Policy Studies in Employment & Welfare)
  • Warriors At Work: The Volunteer Armed Force (SAGE Library of Social Research)
  • Second Thoughts on Work
  • Employment and Earnings Inadequacy: A New Social Indicator (Policy Studies in Employment & Welfare)
  • Antipoverty work and training efforts: goals and reality / by Sar A. Levitan
  • Still a Dream: The Changing Status of Blacks Since 1960
  • protecting American Workers

Membership

Served to captain Army of the United States, 1942-1946. Member American Arbitration Association (labor panel), Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (labor panel), Industrial Relations Research Association.

Connections

Married Brita Ann Buchard, October 15, 1946.

Father:

Osher N. Levitan

Mother:

Yocheved (Rapoport) Levitan

Spouse:

Brita Ann Buchard