Publication Type: Report

Three Policy Reforms to Help Low-Income Children in Colorado

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  • Publication Type  Report 
  • 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 […]

Supporting Parent Engagement in Linguistically Diverse Families to Promote Young Children’s Learning: Implications for Early Care and Education Policy

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  • Project  Research Connections; 
  • Publication Type  Report 
  • Post date August 1, 2015

Learn about our Research Connections project. There is wide agreement that early care and education programs should support parent engagement linked to early learning for all families, including families from diverse language and cultural backgrounds. This brief highlights research that can inform policies to expand the capacity of early care and education programs to promote […]

Taxing the Poor: State Income Tax Policies Make a Big Difference to Working Families

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  • Project  Making Work Supports Work; 
  • Publication Type  Report 
  • Post date November 1, 2014

Learn about our Making Work Supports Work project. This is an excerpt from the full report. In his 2013 State of the Union address, President Obama called for policy change to ensure that “no one who works full-time should have to live in poverty.” However, a new NCCP analysis of state tax policy finds that […]

State Policies through a Two-Generation Lens: Strengthening the Collective Impact of Policies that Affect the Life Course of Young Children and their Parents

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  • Project  Early Childhood Two-Generation State Policy Profiles; 
  • Publication Type  Report 
  • Post date September 1, 2014

Learn about our Improving the Odds for Young Children project. This is an excerpt from the full brief. Two-generation approaches to promoting the healthy development and school success of young children aim to enhance the well-being and life opportunities of both parents and children. This approach is based on research that shows how conditions affecting […]

Energy Insecurity among Families with Children

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  • Project  Making Work Supports Work; 
  • Publication Type  Report 
  • Post date January 1, 2014

Learn about our Making Work Supports Work project. Energy insecurity (EI) reflects an inability to adequately meet basic household heating, cooling, and energy needs. EI is a pervasive and often-overlooked problem for low-income families with children. Conceptually, EI is a multi-dimensional construct that describes the interplay between structural conditions of housing and the costs of […]

Parent Engagement from Preschool through Grade 3: A Guide for Policymakers

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  • Project  Expanding Opportunities for Family Engagement; 
  • Publication Type  Report 
  • Post date September 1, 2013

Learn about our Expanding Opportunities for Parent Engagement project. Parent engagement in children’s education is increasingly viewed as an essential support to children’s learning in early care and education programs and throughout the school years. While there are many definitions of “parent engagement,” the term is used here to describe parents’ efforts to promote their […]

Knowing What Works: States and Cities Build Smarter Social Policy with New and Improved Poverty Measurement

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  • Project  Making Work Supports Work; 
  • Publication Type  Report 
  • Post date April 1, 2013

Learn about our Making Work Supports Work project. This is an excerpt from the full report. To better understand poverty and find the best strategies to reduce it, states and localities need to know who is poor, why they are poor, and what policies work best for different groups. Rather than rely on the official […]

Building a Competitive Future Right from the Start: How Paid Leave Strengthens 21st Century Families

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  • Publication Type  Report 
  • Post date September 1, 2012

This is an excerpt from the full report. Introduction The landscape for 21st century American children and families is terra incognita, filled with great potential, as well as daunting challenges. Unprecedented economic, social, technological, and environmental changes define life for millennial citizens, with profound implications for human and workforce development as well as the course […]

Practices for Promoting Young Children’s Learning in QRIS Standards

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  • Project  Expanding Opportunities for Family Engagement; 
  • Publication Type  Report 
  • Post date September 1, 2012

Learn about our Expanding Opportunities for Parent Engagement project. This is an excerpt from the full brief. Introduction Quality Rating Improvement Systems (QRIS) have emerged as a central strategy in states’ efforts to improve the quality of early care and education programs and the capacity of these programs to promote positive outcomes for children. Currently, […]

Mental Health Chartbook: Tracking the Well-being of People with Mental Health Challenges

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  • Publication Type  Report 
  • Post date August 1, 2012

This report is an update of Mental Health Chartbook: Tracking the Well-being of People with Mental Illness (2008) by Sherry Glied, Health Policy and Management Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and Richard Frank Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School. The funding for this chartbook was provided by the MacArthur Foundation. Yumiko Aratani, Shannon […]