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Tue, 01 Dec 2009 09:00:00 GMT
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- December 01, 2009, 9:00 AM to 10:45 AM
On December 1, the National Fatherhood Initiative will release “Mama Says: A National Survey of Mothers’ Attitudes on Fathering” at an event sponsored by the Center on Children and Families at Brookings. The report shows that mothers say stable, well-functioning marriages are extremely important to good fathering, yet over half of mothers say fathers are replaceable by single mothers and nearly two-thirds of mothers say that fathers are replaceable by other men.
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Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT
The United States spends 2.4 times as much on the elderly as on children, measured on a per capita basis, with the ratio rising to 7 to 1 if looking just at the federal budget, Julia Isaacs finds. She looks at expenditures on children and the elderly in the United States compared to other countries and, from a life-cycle perspective, asks whether these spending patterns makes sense for the long-term good of our country.
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Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Can marriage decrease poverty? Higher marriage rates among the poor would benefit poor adults themselves, their children and the nation, says Ron Haskins. He argues that non-coercive programs that are delivered by community-based agencies can be effective. By helping couples who want to marry, the payoff to them, their children and society is potentially enormous.
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Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Recent decades have seen sharply rising incomes for the rich, modest progress for the middle class, and little or no progress for the poor. How can more people achieve the American Dream? To address the question, Ron Haskins and Politico senior editor Fred Barbash conducted a live web chat about expanding economic opportunity in America.
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Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:30:00 GMT
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- October 28, 2009, 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM
Recent decades have seen sharply rising incomes for the rich, modest progress for the middle class, and little or no progress for the poor. How can more people achieve the American Dream? On Wednesday, October 28, Ron Haskins and Politico Senior Editor Fred Barbash conducted a live web chat about expanding economic opportunity in America.
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Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:00:00 GMT
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- October 27, 2009, 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM
On October 27, Ron Haskins and Isabel Sawhill discussed their new book, Creating an Opportunity Society, which explores what it will take to help more people achieve the American Dream.
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Tue, 20 Oct 2009 08:24:00 GMT
Despite its status as one of the world’s leading economies, the United States is faced with high poverty rates and less economic opportunity than many other affluent countries. Senior Fellows Isabel Sawhill and Ron Haskins, argue that it will take a combination of personal responsibility along with smarter and better-targeted government policies to make the American Dream a reality for children and families now stuck at the bottom.
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Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Ron Haskins argues that California's recent decision to allow a substantial number of its welfare recipients to avoid work requirements will reverse nearly a decade and a half of hard-won progress against parental idleness and child poverty.
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Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT
This policy brief, a companion to the volume of The Future of Children devoted to child maltreatment prevention, the authors examine evaluations of home-visiting programs designed to improve parenting and reduce child maltreatment and how policy makers are using social science evidence to identify and support successful programs.
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Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT
In this policy brief, a companion to the volume of The Future of Children devoted to child maltreatment prevention, the authors examine evaluations of home-visiting programs designed to improve parenting and reduce child maltreatment and how policy makers are using social science evidence to identify and support successful programs.
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Thu, 01 Oct 2009 09:15:00 GMT
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- October 01, 2009, 9:15 AM to 11:15 AM
The Obama administration has proposed a new initiative that would fund home-visiting programs in which trained professionals visit new mothers in their homes to provide advice and assistance with child rearing and related topics. On October 1, The Future of Children, a joint project between Princeton University and Brookings, released a new edition of the journal, “Preventing Child Maltreatment,” at an event featuring Representative Jim McDermott and former Representative Nancy Johnson to discuss this and related programs.
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Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Isabel Sawhill examines the effect of the proposed health care reform legislation on the middle class. She concludes that the reform will be a false victory if all it does is expand coverage and increase choice, without substantially affecting what our health care dollars buy.
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Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Isabel Sawhill examines the latest poverty statistics, concluding that with the policy community so heavily focused on health care reform, the plight of the least advantaged in our society is getting too little attention.
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Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Emily Monea and Isabel Sawhill argue that in light of the projected increases in U.S. poverty levels, more attention should be paid to the adequacy of the safety net plus health care, education, job training and other means of insuring that more Americans are able to benefit from the opportunities that a growing economy will eventually provide.
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Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:30:00 GMT
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- September 10, 2009, 2:30 PM to 4:00 PM
On September 10, the day the U.S. Census Bureau releases its new report on poverty and family income for 2008, the Brookings Center on Children and Families held its seventh annual briefing to discuss the new figures and their implications for families and policymakers.
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Fri, 31 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Ron Haskins discusses personal responsibility and the three areas of personal decision-making in which the nation’s youth and young adults most need to learn and practice personal responsibility: education, sexual behavior and marriage, and work.
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Wed, 08 Jul 2009 09:00:00 GMT
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- July 08, 2009, 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM
The federal government responded aggressively to the economic crisis with fiscal, financial and monetary interventions. While boosting the economy has to be the top priority in the short run, it would be dangerous to lose focus on medium- and long-term fiscal issues that represent future threats to the economy and the solvency of the federal government. On July 8, Brookings experts and colleagues examined the delicate balancing act between economic recovery and fiscal sustainability.
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Tue, 23 Jun 2009 09:00:00 GMT
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- June 23, 2009, 9:00 AM to 10:30 AM
On June 23, the Center on Children and Families at Brookings hosted an event that examines a new report by McKinsey Global Institute on changing employment and income that informs the debate on what has driven the dispersion in incomes across industries and occupations.
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Thu, 14 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT
In this policy brief, a companion to the volume of The Future of Children devoted to high school reforms, Ron Haskins and James Kemple examine the steps high schools should take to help low-income students prepare for and succeed in college. Specifically, they argue, high schools should boost students’ subject matter knowledge and study skills and counsel students on how to select colleges and obtain financial aid.
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Thu, 14 May 2009 09:00:00 GMT
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- May 14, 2009, 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM
On May 14, The Future of Children, a joint project between Princeton University and the Brookings Institution, will release a policy brief discussing the steps high schools should take to help low-income students prepare for postsecondary education. Senator Michael Bennet (D-Colo.), the former superintendent of the Denver schools, will deliver the keynote address.
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Tue, 12 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Many low-income students miss out on college because they don’t know how much it actually costs or how to get access to billions of dollars in financial aid, says Ron Haskins. That’s why improving the equality of educational opportunity—a traditional American value—is one key to promoting economic mobility for disadvantaged students.
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Mon, 11 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT
In the first Wisconsin Poverty Report, Julia Isaacs and Timothy Smeeding examine poverty in Wisconsin and ask key questions, including: Where is poverty highest? How does Wisconsin poverty compare to that of its neighbors? Where is poverty growing—or receding in the state?
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Tue, 05 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Despite extensive research documenting the benefits of investing in young children, infants and toddlers are underrepresented in the federal budget, researchers from the Brookings and the Urban Institute found. The nation’s 12.5 million children under age 3 are 4.2 percent of the population, but they received just 2.1 percent—$44.1 billion—of federal domestic spending in 2007. Domestic outlays, which exclude defense, homeland security, and international affairs, totaled $2.1 trillion.
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Mon, 04 May 2009 09:00:00 GMT
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- May 04, 2009, 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM
More low-income families now need assistance on how to find financial vehicles that will allow them to more effectively manage debt, savings and their financial lives. Brookings hosted a discussion on how recommendations from Insufficient Funds: Savings, Assets, Credit, and Banking among Low-Income Households—a new book edited by Rebecca M. Blank and Michael S. Barr—might be realized in this current economic environment.
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Tue, 14 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Children living in families with low incomes and those with poorly educated parents are much more likely than other children to grow up to be adults with less education, lower incomes, poorer health, and shorter lives, all of which severely impact federal, state and local budgets. William T. Dickens and Charles Baschnagel examine the effects of investment in selected prekindergarten education programs in a growth model of the U.S. economy to judge the impact they would have on these budgets.
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Fri, 27 Mar 2009 16:51:28 GMT
Ron Haskins, co-director of Brookings’s Center on Children and Families, says President Obama’s budget is unsustainable and adds that it will likely fail to help restore fiscal solvency to the nation’s economy. Haskins says unless lawmakers are willing to compromise on key issues the fiscal situation will worsen.
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Thu, 26 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Harry J. Holzer and Robert I. Lerman analyze the likely trends in supply and demand for workers with different levels of education and training over the next decade and beyond. They present data on the current distributions of jobs and wages, and how these distributions have evolved in the recent past, and also review projections from the Bureau of Labor Statistics on future demand by occupation.
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Thu, 26 Feb 2009 09:00:00 GMT
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- February 26, 2009, 9:00 AM to 11:45 AM
America’s shortage of highly-skilled workers is well known, but less attention has been focused on “middle-skill jobs,” such as plumbers, electricians, health care workers, legal assistants, machinists, and police officers. The Center on Children and Families at Brookings released a report analyzing the demand for these jobs and their potential for helping disadvantaged workers move up the income ladder.
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Mon, 09 Feb 2009 12:22:55 GMT
In these tough times, the economy needs a stimulus, regardless of the impact on the deficit, says Isabel Sawhill. But prudent action needs to be taken to address runaway entitlement spending and that agenda should reconsider our intergenerational spending priorities.
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Thu, 05 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Just before the House approved its version of the stimulus bill, it was stripped of a controversial provision that would have given states the option to expand a Medicaid-funded program subsidizing family planning services for low-income women. Adam Thomas and Isabel Sawhill agree that the family planning provision was rightly stripped from the package, but argue that it is an important program that has the potential to limit the number of unplanned pregnancies, reduce the incidence of abortion, improve child well-being and actually save money in the long-run.
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Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Julia Isaacs outlines three policy proposals that have proved cost-effective and that can help to reduce burdens on young families.
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Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT
David Mundel and Lois Rice discuss the results of a recent experiment about the effect of grant programs on college attendance among lower-income youth.
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Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT
The past few decades have led to more inequality in both income and wealth than we have seen since the late 1920s. Despite this, Americans seem to care more about equality of opportunity than about equality of outcomes. Julia Isaacs and Isabel Sawhill describe ways to ensure greater equality of opportunity and economic mobility.
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Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Isabel Sawhill discusses the big three of entitlement programs - Medicare, Social Security and Medicaid and how they will wreak havoc on the country's finances (and yours) unless we scale them back.
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Wed, 15 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Ron Haskins and Laurence Steinberg, in this companion to the new edition of The Future of Children devoted to juvenile justice, examine the problem of youth confinement in correctional facilities, including adult jails and prisons. They pay special attention to why harsh punishment of adolescents is not only often unjust but also counterproductive and make recommendations for more appropriate and cost-effective responses to youth crime.
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Wed, 15 Oct 2008 09:00:00 GMT
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- October 15, 2008, 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM
After a decade of declining juvenile crime rates, the forces that fueled the “get-tough” reforms of the 1990s have waned, as has enthusiasm for the reforms that eroded the boundaries between juvenile and criminal court, exposing juvenile offenders to harsh punishments. The antisocial acts that bring young people into contact with the justice system are often accompanied by other problems, most of which the justice system alone is ill-equipped to address. A slate of panelists, will discuss reforming juvenile justice to reflect these differences between adolescent and adult offenders.
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Mon, 29 Sep 2008 09:30:00 GMT
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- September 29, 2008, 9:30 AM to 2:00 PM
On September 29, several prominent scholars and policy advocates outlined their key recommendations for improving the quality of life for people at the bottom of the socio-economic ladder, including proposals to improve employment and earnings, strengthen families, enhance opportunities for children, and improve neighborhoods. Discussions of the proposals were followed by comments from policy experts.
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Fri, 19 Sep 2008 09:00:00 GMT
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- September 19, 2008, 9:00 AM to 10:30 AM
Since 2002, the Department of Health and Human Services’ Administration for Children and Families has provided substantial funding for healthy marriage and relationship programs, which are increasingly reaching out to serve African Americans, Latinos, Native Americans, refugees and immigrants from many different cultures. On September 19, the Brookings Institution and the National Healthy Marriage Resource Center will host a discussion to focus on what is being learned about how these programs need to be designed, and curricula adapted, to be relevant to ethnically, racially and culturally diverse populations.
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Mon, 15 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Julia B. Isaacs details how the growing evidence about the importance of children’s early years is changing public attitudes toward early childhood programs. Adopting a well-designed package of investments in children from birth to five will improve children’s health, school achievement, and opportunities for future economic success.
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Mon, 15 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Advocates for children are hoping that with a new administration and a new Congress in 2009, investments in children will get enhanced priority. Isabel Sawhill argues that we need a new intergenerational contract that invests more in people when they are young, but then expects them to assume somewhat greater responsibility for their own support during their retirement years.
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Mon, 15 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Ron Haskins offers ways policymakers could create an entitlement to housing assistance that would more fairly distribute housing benefits and convert housing into a more effective element in the nation’s work support system. The goal of reform would be to get the most out of the resources now devoted to housing by providing at least some benefit to all eligible families that want a housing subsidy.
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Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Julia Isaacs and Emily Roessel assess the effects of five early childhood education programs—State Pre-K, Head Start, Early Head Start, Model Early Childhood Programs and Nurse Home Visiting—that have had positive impacts on children’s cognitive skills and/or school outcomes.
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Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Julia B. Isaacs calls for both presidential candidates to consider effective preschool programs in their domestic policy platforms.
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Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Hugh B. Price shares the lessons learned during his tenure as president of the National Urban League and explains how educators can collaborate with others to reverse poor motivation, reward student success, and realize higher achievement in even the most challenged school districts.
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Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:00:00 GMT
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- August 26, 2008, 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM
On August 26, the day the Census poverty report was released, the Brookings Center on Children and Families held its sixth annual briefing to discuss the new figures and their implications for families and policy-makers.
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Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT
The bipartisan economic stimulus package was a straightforward application of Keynesian fiscal policy: Spend your way out of recession. However, some might wonder if it’s possible to design a stimulus package that could also reduce inequality. In this paper, Ron Haskins explains why targeted stimulus may reduce poverty in the short run but cannot substitute for investments that will reduce inequality in the long run.
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Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT
In this paper, Melissa Kearney and Phillip Levine analyze the impact of state policies that expanded eligibility for Medicaid family planning services to women who do not meet regular Medicaid eligibility criteria. The results of their research show that the expanded eligibility policies had a significant impact on reducing unplanned births.
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Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:00:00 GMT
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- July 18, 2008, 9:00 AM to 10:30 AM
On July 18th, the National Healthy Marriage Resource Center and the Center on Children and Families hosted panels discussing effective models for creating bridges between domestic violence and healthy marriage and relationship programs, as well as emerging curricula and approaches to helping individual women and men avoid abusive relationships.
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Mon, 09 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Isabel Sawhill and Emily Monea argue that it's time to tear up the intergenerational contract as we know it and construct public policy around the one group of people for whom social investments really pay off: kids.
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Fri, 16 May 2008 09:00:00 GMT
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- May 16, 2008, 9:00 AM to 10:30 AM
The National Healthy Marriage Resource Center and the Center on Children and Families at Brookings Institution are cosponsoring a series of three seminars to share the lessons learned to date from research and the experience of over 300 healthy marriage and relationship programs located across the USA serving diverse populations. In this seminar on May 16, researchers, program administrators and program participants focused on key lessons learned about the economic factors that affect couples' lives.
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Wed, 07 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT
There are a growing number of low-income single mothers who are long-term welfare recipients or are without steady employment. They tend to face more barriers to stable employment, with less education, younger children, higher rates of mental and physical health problems and substance abuse, and a history of domestic violence. In this brief, Rebecca Blank and Brian Kovak propose a new program to link these mothers to medical and economic support and give them greater assistance in securing employment.
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Wed, 07 May 2008 09:00:00 GMT
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- May 07, 2008, 9:00 AM to 11:15 AM
The Center on Children and Families and the National Poverty Center at the University of Michigan's Ford School of Public Policy held a forum to discuss the policy challenges posed by single mothers who have not been able to find stable employment and who may have used up their Temporary Assistance for Needy Families eligibility or face sanctions. These women head the families that are most vulnerable to the current economic downswing.
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Thu, 01 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT
In a new paper from Brookings and First Focus, Julia Issacs and Phillip Lovell show that nearly two million children will be directly impacted by the mortgage crisis. When forced from their homes, children’s education is disrupted, their peer relationships crumble, and the social networks that support them are fractured.
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Wed, 23 Apr 2008 09:00:00 GMT
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- April 23, 2008, 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM
On April 23, a slate of panelists, including researchers, media representatives, and advocates discussed the role of government and the private sector in making media a positive force in the lives of young people. Video clips from several positive media campaigns designed to improve the health and well-being of the nation’s youth were presented.
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Wed, 16 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT
A substantial number of low-income individuals make use of services within the alternative financial sector, particularly pay-day lenders and check cashing outlets. The high cost of these services has led many observers to seek policies that would reduce the use of informal financial services among lower income households. In this paper, Rebecca Blank reviews the reasons why individuals utilize AFS outlets and discusses the policy options that could affect these decisions.
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Thu, 10 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Parents are worried that teens are drowning in messages about sex, smoking, drinking, consumer goods and a host of other behaviors and products that threaten their well-being. This brief advocates using creative media to provide youth with positive messages that counteract the negative damaging messages to which they are exposed.
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Mon, 07 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT
As the baby boomers begin to retire this year, the burden of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid will grow relentlessly. With more people in the programs and more expensive benefits, the nation will quickly encounter a budget disaster. Bill Frenzel and Ron Haskins say that dramatic reforms are needed to avoid budget chaos for future generations.
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Mon, 24 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT
This study by Brookings expert Julia Isaacs compares the Food Stamp Program with eight other public assistance programs across four measures of program effectiveness—administrative costs, error payments, program access, and benefit targeting.
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Thu, 20 Mar 2008 09:00:00 GMT
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- March 20, 2008, 9:00 AM to 11:45 AM
A comprehensive look at the trends and issues that drive economic opportunity in America was released last month in a new volume by Brookings experts, "Getting Ahead or Losing Ground: Economic Mobility in America." On March 20, the Center on Children and Families at Brookings and the Pew Charitable Trusts’ Economic Mobility Project held a forum to discuss the findings on gender, race, immigration, and families in addition to new findings on education, international comparisons, trends, and wealth.
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Wed, 05 Mar 2008 09:00:00 GMT
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- March 05, 2008, 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM
How can the next president reduce poverty and increase economic opportunity? This question was the subject of a forum on March 5 sponsored by the Center on Children and Families at Brookings, the Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality at Stanford, and the Spotlight on Poverty Campaign.
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Wed, 20 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Is America still the land of opportunity and mobility? How much opportunity to get ahead actually exists in America? Brookings scholars Julia Isaacs, Isabel Sawhill and Ron Haskins provide new evidence and summarize research on both the extent of intergenerational mobility in the United States and the factors that influence it.
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Wed, 20 Feb 2008 11:44:37 GMT
Economic inequality across American households has been growing for a number of years. Isabel Sawhill, co-director of the Center on Children and Families and co-author of Getting Ahead or Losing Ground: Economic Mobility in America examines how upwardly mobile we really are.
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Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT
In a CCF working paper, Eloise Pasachoff argues that the federal government has an important role to ensure equal educational opportunity for all.
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Wed, 23 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT
While the nation has been struggling to eliminate the education gap, Ron Haskins testifies on ways to improve all preschool education received by poor children.
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Tue, 22 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT
With childhood obesity climbing, kids face higher risks of heart disease, hypertension and high blood pressure in adulthood or earlier. Hugh Price and Oliver Sloman call to reverse this health epidemic by looking to retired health care professionals for assistance.
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Wed, 28 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMT
A sharp rise in income inequality in the United States has created large gaps between the haves and the have-nots. Based on new Brookings research, most of today’s adults are better off than their own parents were when they were growing up. The converse: one third remains worse off. Many middle-class families are only one earner away from poverty. Isabel Sawhill and Julia Isaacs argue that America could and should do better, through better access to education, including early childhood education.
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Thu, 15 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Julia Isaacs discussed her new report which found that two out of three Americans are making more money today than their parents did in the '60s, but for African-American men, that statistic is much lower.
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Thu, 15 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Roberto Suro illustrates some key trends about Hispanic families in the United States to stimulate a policy discussion that accounts for the dynamism and diversity that characterizes them.
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Thu, 15 Nov 2007 09:00:00 GMT
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- November 15, 2007, 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM
Brookings’s Center on Children and Families and the Annie E. Casey Foundation held a forum to discuss trends in marriage and childbearing in the Hispanic community and address what actions policy-makers and practitioners can take to strengthen Hispanic families and improve the well-being of children in these families.
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Tue, 13 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Julia Isaacs reviews overall income trends based on Census Bureau data and provides an intergenerational analysis based on a longitudinal data set that allows a direct match of the family income of parents in the late 1960s to their children’s family income in the late 1990s to early 2000s.
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Tue, 13 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Julia B. Isaacs takes a comprehensive view of economic mobility, asking questions about both absolute and relative mobility.
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Tue, 13 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Julia Isaacs explores the differences between white and black families with regard to economic success and income mobility.
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Wed, 07 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMT
In 1960, roughly 70 percent of 30-year-olds were married, financially independent and starting a family. By 2000, fewer than 40 percent of 30-year-olds had done the same. William Galston discusses the trend and implications.
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Wed, 31 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Hugh Price suggests that the military invests more in understanding human development than any other institution on earth with the best track record in training and advancing minorities. He provides opening remarks and moderates a policy forum about the National Guard Youth ChalleNGe Program, a quasi-military youth corps for school dropouts.
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Wed, 17 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMT
In the first annual Kristin Anderson Moore lecture for Child Trends, Isabel Sawhill discusses how future generations will have to deal with the challenges of globalization and low savings rates, and emphasizes the need for higher education and fiscal responsibility.
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Thu, 04 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Presentation by William A. Galston (10/04/07)
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Thu, 20 Sep 2007 09:00:00 GMT
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- September 20, 2007, 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM
Although the nation is no longer achieving major reductions in poverty as it did during the 1960s, some gains have been made in recent years, especially among single mothers. But more progress is needed in focusing antipoverty efforts on men. Panelists at this event explored two sets of public policies – wage subsidies and work requirements – that hold promise for helping young men increase their employment and earnings.
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Sat, 01 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Article by Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Greg J. Duncan, Jeffrey R. Kling and Lisa Sanbonmatsu (08/14/07)
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Sat, 01 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Wage subsidies and work requirements hold the promise of alleviating many social problems, especially poverty. Brookings’s Ron Haskins writes about counteracting the negative behaviors of adolescent boys and young men in a new brief.
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Sat, 01 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT
This semiannual journal provides research and analysis to promote effective policies and programs for children. This issue focuses on antipoverty policies.
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Tue, 28 Aug 2007 14:00:00 GMT
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- August 28, 2007, 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM
On August 28, the Brookings Conter on Children and Families held a briefing to discuss a new Census poverty report. New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg offered a response to the report as the event's featured speaker.
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Fri, 03 Aug 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Interview with Ron Haskins (08/03/07)
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Thu, 26 Jul 2007 09:00:00 GMT
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- July 26, 2007, 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM
On July 26, the Center on Children and Families hosted panels of researchers, administrators, and child and parent advocates to discuss parent training programs, their implementation, and their effects on children who come to the attention of the child protection system.
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Wed, 25 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Report by Ron Haskins (July 2007)
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Sun, 01 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMT
The National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being (NSCAW) is the first nationally representative study of children who have been reported to authorities as suspected victims of abuse or neglect and the public programs that protect them.Child Pro
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Thu, 28 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Opinion by Hugh B. Price (06/28/2007)
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Fri, 08 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Opinion by Isabel V. Sawhill (06/08/07)
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Tue, 29 May 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Article by Ron Haskins (05/29/07)
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Tue, 01 May 2007 00:00:00 GMT
CCF Working Paper by Hugh B. Price (May 2007)
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Tue, 01 May 2007 00:00:00 GMT
For more than two centuries, economic opportunity and the prospect of upward mobility have formed the bedrock upon which the American story has been anchored — inspiring people in distant lands to seek our shores and sustaining the unwavering optimism of Americans at home.
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Tue, 01 May 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Article by Ron Haskins and Isabel V. Sawhill (May 2007)
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Thu, 26 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Testimony by Isabel V. Sawhill (April 26, 2007)
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Sun, 01 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Gary Burtless shows how income inequality has changed in rich countries and considers how much of the change can be explained by closer economic integration between rich and poor countries.
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Thu, 29 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT
In testimony before the House
Committee on Ways and Means Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support, Jeff Kling argues that the introduction of wage insurance would increase economic security by reducing unemployment for American workers displaced by offshoring.
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Wed, 28 Mar 2007 09:00:00 GMT
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- March 28, 2007, 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM
The Brookings Institution and Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School released the latest volume of The Future of Children journal, "Excellence in the Classroom," discussing options for improving teacher quality.
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Thu, 15 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT
This semiannual journal provides research and analysis to promote effective policies and programs for children.
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Thu, 01 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Future of Children Policy Brief by Ron Haskins and Susanna Loeb (Spring 2007)
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Thu, 01 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT
A country's priorities are reflected in its budget. Most people agree that "children are our future," but there's less agreement on how well we are preparing the next generation to lead us into that future. Many argue that it is important to invest in children and youth, building their knowledge and skills so they can be productive workers and citizens. But are we investing enough in them?
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Thu, 22 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Testimony by Ron Haskins (2/22/07)
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Wed, 21 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Opinion by Isabel V. Sawhill and Alice M. Rivlin (02/21/07)