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State Choices to Promote Effective Parenting
- Provide paid medical/maternity leave. [2008]3
- Have a Medicaid family planning waiver to extend coverage to low-income women to increase the interval between pregnancies. [2008]4
- Exempt single parents on TANF from work requirements until the youngest child reaches age 1. [2006]5
The exemption is limited to 12 months in the recipient’s lifetime. - Reduce the TANF work requirement for single parents with children under age 6. [2006]6
- Allow parents in school to qualify for child care subsidies. [2005]7
- Operate a statewide home visiting program. [2007]8
- Formally link home visiting programs to supports for early childhood development (e.g. Medicaid/SCHIP, early intervention, and early childhood mental health). [2007]8
State Choices to Promote Family Economic Security
- Establish a state minimum wage that exceeds the federal minimum wage. [July 2008]10
$6.33 - Exempt a single-parent family of three below the poverty level from personal income tax. [2007]11
No state income tax. - Offer a refundable state earned income tax credit. [2008]12
- Offer a refundable state dependent care tax credit. [2007]13
- Keep copayments for child care subsidies below 10% of family income for most families. [2008]14
- Allow families on TANF to receive some or all of their child support payment without reducing TANF cash assistance. [2007]15
No pass-through/disregard.
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Data Notes and Sources
Last Updated: September 24, 2009
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- National Survey of Children's Health, Data Resource Center on Child and Adolescent Health The Child and Adolescent Health Measurement Initiative (2009). Retrieved June 1, 2009 from http://www.nschdata.org.
- State data were calculated from the Annual Social and Economic Supplement (the March supplement) of the Current Population Survey from 2007, 2008, and 2009, representing information from calendar years 2006, 2007, and 2008. NCCP averaged three years of data because of small sample sizes in less populated states. The national data were calculated from the 2009 data, representing information from the previous calendar year.
- National Partnership for Women and Families, Expecting Better: A State-by-State Analysis of Parental Leave Programs, 2005 http://paidsickdays.nationalpartnership.org (accessed March 2007). and National Conference of State Legislatures, State Family and Medical Leave Law the Differ from the Federal FMLA, 2008. Available at:http://www.ncsl.org (Accessed March 11, 2009)
- State Medicaid Family Planning Eligibility Expansions, State Policies in Brief, as of April 1, 2007, Guttmacher Institute. Available at: http://www.guttmacher.org (accessed through http://www.statehealthfacts.org on April 30, 2008).
- This table refers to single custodial parents over 21 years old. A sanction cannot be imposed for a child who has not attained 6 years of age if child care is unavailable.
Gretchen Rowe and Mary Murphy, The Welfare Rules Databook: State Policies as of July 2006, Assessing the New Federalism, The Urban Institute, 2007, Table III.B.1. - Gretchen Rowe and Mary Murphy, The Welfare Rules Databook: State Policies as of July 2006, Assessing the New Federalism, The Urban Institute, 2007, Table III.B.2, footnotes 3, 16, 19, 20, 21, and 27.
- Karen Schulman and Helen Blank, Child Care Assistance Policies 2005: States Fail to Make up Lost Ground, Families Continue to Lack Critical Supports, National Women's Law Center, September 2005.
- 2007 Survey conducted by Kay Johnson for the National Center for Children in Poverty (Publication forthcoming.) Indiana, Kanas, Vermont, Washington, and D.C. did not respond to the survey.
- State data were calculated from the Annual Social and Economic Supplement (the March supplement) of the Current Population Survey from 2006, 2007, and 2008, representing information from calendar years 2005, 2006, and 2007. NCCP averaged three years of data because of small sample sizes in less populated states. The national data were calculated from the 2008 data, representing information from the previous calendar year.
- Economic Policy Institute, "Minimum Wage Issue Guide, Table 5," 2008, http://www.epi.org (accessed August 11, 2008). and U.S. Department of Labor, Employment Standards Administration, Minimum Wage Laws in the States, July 2008, http://www.dol.gov (accessed August 8, 2008)
- Jason A. Levitis and Andrew C. Nicholas, The Impact of State Income Taxes on Low-Income Families in 2007, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, 2008. Available at: http://www.cbpp.org (Accessed March 19, 2009).
- Community Resources Information, Inc., TaxCreditResources.org, section last updated 03/06/09, taxcreditresources.org (accessed March 25, 2009).
- National Women's Law Center, State Child and Dependent Care Tax Provisions, Tax Year 2007, 2007.
- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Report of State and Territory Plans, FY 2008-2009, 2008. http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov (Accessed April 2, 2009)
- Jan Justice, State Policy Re Pass-Through and Disregard of Current Month's Child Support Collected for Families Receiving TANF-Funded Cash Assistance, Center for Law and Social Policy, 2007.