Author: Curtis Skinner

The Florida Minimum Wage: How Much Can It Really Buy, and How High Should It Be?

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  • Project  Making Work Supports Work; 
  • Publication Type  Report 
  • Post date August 1, 2016

Learn about our Making Work Supports Work project. In Florida and across the nation, there is much debate about the adequacy of the minimum wage. The federal minimum wage of $7.25 has not increased since July 2009, and has fallen by more than fifty cents in real terms since then. Adjusted for inflation, the current […]

Protecting Workers, Nurturing Families: Building an Inclusive Family Leave Insurance Program: Findings and Recommendations from the New Jersey Parenting Project

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  • Project  Making Work Supports Work; 
  • Publication Type  Report 
  • Post date March 1, 2016

Learn more about our Making Work Supports Work project. A high-quality paid family leave policy is a vital investment in the future of young children and their families. Paid family leave allows workers to take time off from their jobs to bond with new children or care for seriously ill family members with some financial […]

Basic Facts about Low-Income Children: Children Under 3 Years, 2014

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  • Publication Type  Fact Sheet 
  • Post date February 1, 2016

To find comparable information for all children, see Basic Facts about Low-Income Children: Children under 18 Years, 2014; for young children, see Basic Facts about Low-Income Children: Children under 6 Years, 2014; for children in middle childhood, see Basic Facts about Low-Income Children: Children 6 through 11 Years, 2014; for adolescent children, see Basic Facts […]

Basic Facts about Low-income Children: Children Aged 6 through 11 Years, 2014

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  • Publication Type  Fact Sheet 
  • Post date February 1, 2016

To find comparable information for all children, see Basic Facts about Low-Income Children: Children under 18 Years, 2014; for infants and toddlers, see Basic Facts about Low-Income Children: Children under 3 Years, 2014; for young children, see Basic Facts about Low-Income Children: Children under 6 Years, 2014; for adolescent children, see Basic Facts about Low-Income […]

Basic Facts about Low-Income Children: Children under 18 Years, 2014

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  • Publication Type  Fact Sheet 
  • Post date February 1, 2016

To find comparable information for infants and toddlers, see Basic Facts about Low-Income Children: Children under 3 Years, 2014; for young children, see Basic Facts about Low-Income Children: Children under 6 Years, 2014; for children in middle childhood, see Basic Facts about Low-Income Children: Children 6 through 11 Years, 2014; for adolescent children, see Basic […]

Basic Facts about Low-income Children: Children Aged 12 through 17 Years, 2014

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  • Publication Type  Fact Sheet 
  • Post date February 1, 2016

To find comparable information for all children, see Basic Facts about Low-Income Children: Children under 18 Years, 2014; for infants and toddlers, see Basic Facts about Low-Income Children: Children under 3 Years, 2014; for young children, see Basic Facts about Low-Income Children: Children under 6 Years, 2014; for children in middle childhood, see Basic Facts […]

Basic Facts about Low-Income Children: Children under 6 Years, 2014

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  • Publication Type  Fact Sheet 
  • Post date February 1, 2016

To find comparable information for all children, see Basic Facts about Low-Income Children: Children under 18 Years, 2014; for infants and toddlers, see Basic Facts about Low-Income Children: Children under 3 Years, 2014; for children in middle childhood, see Basic Facts about Low-Income Children: Children 6 through 11 Years, 2014; for adolescent children, see Basic […]

Three Policy Reforms to Help Low-Income Children in Ohio

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  • Publication Type  Report 
  • Post date October 1, 2015

Ohio advocates and policymakers have recently proposed important new policy initiatives to help the state’s struggling working families. This policy brief models three reforms that promise to significantly improve the economic security of low-income Ohio families with children. First, we examine the effect of introducing a free and universal prekindergarten program for four-year-olds on families’ […]

Three Policy Reforms to Help Low-Income Children in Colorado

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  • Post date October 1, 2015

Colorado advocates and policymakers have launched important recent initiatives—both legislated and proposed—to help the state’s struggling working families. This policy brief presents the results of three state policy reforms that promise to significantly improve the economic security of low-income Colorado families with children: (1) Implementing two state income tax credits for families with children that […]

Basic Facts About Low-Income Children: Children under 6 Years, 2013

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  • Publication Type  Fact Sheet 
  • Post date January 1, 2015

To find comparable information for all children, see Basic Facts about Low-Income Children: Children under 18 Years, 2013; for infants and toddlers, see Basic Facts about Low-Income Children: Children under 3 Years, 2013; for children in middle childhood, see Basic Facts about Low-Income Children: Children 6 through 11 Years, 2013; for adolescent children, see Basic […]