Publication Type: Report

When Work Supports Don’t Support Work: A Case for Parental Health Coverage in Mississippi

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  • Project  Making Work Supports Work; 
  • Publication Type  Report 
  • Post date May 1, 2011

Learn about our Making Work Supports Work project. The recession has wreaked havoc on America’s workforce, putting pressure on states to make difficult budgetary choices. As the perennial concern of balancing the budget takes hold of state government, recessionary spending cuts further jeopardize the health and economic security of families. An increasing number of Americans […]

Racial Gaps in Early Childhood: Socio-emotional Health, Developmental, and Educational Outcomes Among African-American Boys

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  • Project  Early Childhood Two-Generation State Policy Profiles;  Unclaimed Children Revisited; 
  • Publication Type  Report 
  • Post date May 1, 2011

Learn about our Unclaimed Children Revisited project. Learn about our Improving the Odds for Young Children project. This is an excerpt from the full report. Introduction The aims of this study are to examine racial gaps in cognitive and socio-emotional development among boys in early childhood and to identify factors that contribute to early resilience […]

Linking Home-Based Child Care And State-Funded Preschool: The Community Connections Preschool Program (Illinois Action for Children)

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  • Publication Type  Report 
  • Post date May 1, 2011

Introduction to the Community Connections Program Model The Community Connections preschool program (herein referred to as Community Connections) was developed to help prepare children in home-based child care for success in school and in life. It has three goals: (1) to make state prekindergarten classroom experiences available to children in home-based care, (2) to extend […]

Quality in Family, Friend, and Neighbor Child Care Settings

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  • Project  Research Connections; 
  • Publication Type  Report 
  • Post date May 1, 2011

Learn about our Research Connections project. This is an excerpt from the full report. Introduction Currently, more than 60 percent of children in the United States under the age of 5 are in some type of non-parental child care on a regular basis ( Johnson, 2005) and care by family, friends, and neighbors (FFN care) […]

Healthy Kids and Strong Working Families: Improving Economic Security for North Dakota Families with Children

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  • Project  Making Work Supports Work; 
  • Publication Type  Report 
  • Post date April 1, 2011

North Dakota is currently experiencing an economic boom that is bringing prosperity to the state and many of its citizens. The prosperity is not shared by all, however. Many workers helping to generate the economic boom do not feel its benefit and nearly one third of North Dakota families struggle to make ends meet. Most […]

Poor Children by Parents’ Nativity: What Do We Know?

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  • Project  Promoting Social Inclusion and Respect for Diversity in Early Childhood; 
  • Publication Type  Report 
  • Post date April 1, 2011

Learn about our Social Inclusion & Respect for Diversity project. Immigration in the United States has held a longstanding and transformative role in shaping the country’s social and economic landscape. State and local policies have, likewise, responded to the changing presence and composition of immigrants in American society. Yet, significant gaps in policies that address […]

Quality Stars NY: Field Test Evaluation Report

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  • Publication Type  Report 
  • Post date April 1, 2011

Background QUALITYstarsNY is New York State’s Quality Rating and Improvement System (QRIS). The current QUALITYstarsNY standards were developed to apply to programs and providers under the regulation of one of New York’s public agencies – the State Office of Children and Family Services, the State Department of Education, or the New York City Department of […]

SNAP Take-up Among Immigrant Families with Children

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  • Project  Making Work Supports Work; 
  • Publication Type  Report 
  • Post date March 1, 2011

Learn about our Making Work Supports Work project. This is an excerpt from the full report. Introduction Immigration is rapidly changing the face of young America. More than one child in four aged 18 years old or younger was either born abroad or lived with a foreign-born parent in 2009 and this ratio is expected […]

Who are America’s Poor Children?: The Official Story

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  • Publication Type  Report 
  • Post date March 1, 2011

Over 15 million American children live in families with incomes below the federal poverty level, which is $22,050 a year for a family of four. The number of children living in poverty increased by 33 percent between 2000 and 2009. There are 3.8 million more children living in poverty today than in 2000. Not only […]

Director’s Report 2011

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  • Publication Type  Report 
  • Post date March 1, 2011