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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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Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Americans have always believed that their country is unique in providing the opportunity to get ahead. Ron Haskins and Isabel Sawhill deconstruct five myths about economic mobility in the United States, saying that we need better policies to help create a true opportunity society.
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Fri, 23 Oct 2009 09:00:00 GMT
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- October 23, 2009, 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM
On October 23, Brookings host eda discussion featuring a group of individuals committed to the cause of childhood health care. In particular, the discussion focused on health care and insurance coverage for autism spectrum disorders and vascular birthmark issues, which together affect over two million Americans.
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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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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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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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Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Michael O'Hanlon and Marc Thiesen write that school vouchers could free special needs students from a public education system that is ill-equipped or unwilling to serve them. They also believe health reform must ensure that insurance will cover well-documented associated with autism.
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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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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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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, 03 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Despite unprecedented biomedical achievements, Americans are sicker than they should be and are dying far too young. From the standpoint of our economy, our future and our families, Mark McClellan and Alice Rivlin discuss why the need to improve Americans' health is greater than ever.
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Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Russ Whitehurst assesses President Obama's education speech and applauds his commitment to regaining our international lead in education by addressing the "crazy quilt of state standards and assessments." But, he argues, "the proposal to provide incentives to states that improve their standards is a far weaker prescription than is desirable or politically possible."
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Sun, 15 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Michael O'Hanlon and Karen Driscoll discuss moves President Obama can make during the first 100 days of his term, and beyond, to combat Autism.
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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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Fri, 30 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Michelle Obama stepped into the policy spotlight as first lady on Thursday at President Barack Obama’s signing of the equal-pay bill. How might Mrs. Obama bring her voice to issues of work-life balance? Rebecca Blank comments on what issues Mrs. Obama should elevate.
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Mon, 12 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Greater Washington Research at Brookings presented information on the demographic and economic trends of the Washington Rregion to Venture Philanthropy Partners, a regional philanthropic organization. The analysis focuses on the stresses and challenges facing a region that is generally prosperous but with some geographic areas and populations in economic distress.
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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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Sun, 28 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Alan Berube urges policy-makers to evaluate short-term opportunities and set long-term strategies in order to help Cleveland’s next generation of residents overcome the challenges of concentrated poverty.
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Wed, 17 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT
With unemployment rising, more families feel squeezed this holiday season than ever. Rebecca Blank urges the new president to consider a plan to support low-wage workers, ensure an effective safety net and create opportunities in high-poverty neighborhoods that might guarantee American families more on their tables in the seasons ahead.
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Mon, 15 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Ron Haskins gave the keynote speech “Intersection of Early Childhood Education, Poverty and Policy” and discussed cost effective early childhood policies that improve outcomes for children at the Early Childhood Public Engagement Summit.
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Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT
A major economic slowdown adds to the problems of lower-income Americans, who have not shared in the economic growth of the last decade. Greater investments in economic mobility and opportunity are needed. Rebecca Blank offers policy solutions and priorities for the president-elect to make greater investments in economic mobility and opportunity.
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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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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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Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT
In this testimony, Rebecca Blank argues for the need to modernize our poverty statistics so that we may have a better understanding of who is poor and how these numbers are changing over time. She discusses anti-poverty strategies for the next decade.
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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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Sun, 31 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT
The poor in American cut across all groups, but are disproportionately represented by single mothers and their children, by persons of color, by immigrants, by less-skilled individuals, or by those with physical or mental disabilities. Many working poor and near-poor families face problems with low wages or unstable jobs. This paper by Rebecca Blank outlines three strategic areas where policy and research attention should focus over the next decade.
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Sun, 31 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT
A host of demographic and economic trends in the United States are making it difficult for the nation to make progress against poverty and income inequality. However, Ron Haskins argues, government policies that raise work levels and provide public benefits to supplement earnings have proven to be effective in fighting poverty among female-headed families. But further progress against poverty and economic inequality seems unlikely unless more poor adults work, reduce the number of births outside marriage, and marry at higher rates.
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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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Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Julia Isaacs details the evidence supporting the long-term benefits of investment in early childhood education, along with prenatal care and greater access to health care for very young children in impoverished families. In a new Opportunity 08 paper, she proposes federal policies for the next President that will provide big returns.
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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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Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Karen Driscoll and Michael O'Hanlon note that Americans are increasingly aware of autism and its effects. Unfortunately, they write, there is still little that is done for most children with the disorder. They argue that the Defense Department has an opportunity to set a precedent and help military families in need by providing funding for treatment and creating a model for other insurers and health plans to follow.
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Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:20:57 GMT
This panel discussed proposed federal policy reforms designed to: foster greater innovation and entrepreneurship in the provision of elementary and secondary education; stimulate and support community compacts that provide high school graduates with financial guarantees for higher education; and build a stronger platform for post-secondary student success, especially in the urban community colleges that serve much of the nation’s diverse future workforce.
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Thu, 05 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Many low-income working families would benefit from a streamlined ability to access the proceeds of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) throughout the year as they pay for ongoing expenses like housing, child care, and transportation. The federal government should consider adopting a model for direct periodic payment of the EITC, as most other countries with in-work tax credits provide.
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Thu, 05 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Slowed economic growth and rising prices for necessities like food, transportation, and child care threaten to exacerbate the challenges already facing America's low-income workers and their families. The federal Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) could do more to help close the growing gap between stagnant wages and rising prices. "Metro Raise" demonstrates how an expanded and modernized EITC would benefit families and communities in the nation's major metropolitan areas.
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Sat, 31 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT
At least 77 million children worldwide do not attend primary school, a problem which is often fueled by a lack of resources but also by a lack of political will. In a new Brookings Global policy brief, Stephen Kosack examines the issue of political will and its affect on primary education access.
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Thu, 22 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Jeffrey Kling talks about housing policy, in particular about the use of housing vouchers in a speech given to the French Ministry of Labor, Social Affairs and Solidarity.
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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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Thu, 15 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Compiled by Brookings Institution experts, this chart is part of a series of issue indices being published during the 2008 Presidential election cycle. In this index, candidates' views on children's issues are presented.
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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
Hugh B. Price offers a new approach to educating young people who are faring miserably in public schools. He makes a case for quasi-military public high schools because they offer a safe environment, academic excellence and a surprising focus on the whole child.
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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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Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT
The District of Columbia is struggling to attract and retain families with children. Most newcomers are singles and childless couples. The total number of school-age children has declined slightly. Many of the city’s schools suffer from long-standing physical, management and academic problems. The availability of quality public schools, near affordable family-friendly housing, will help determine the city’s success.
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Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Americans are gloomy about the economy these days. Despite widespread economic malaise, writes Elisabeth Jacobs, little has been done to strengthen the safety net for American families in financial duress. And though some presidential candidates have begun to call for action, evidence suggests that the American people need action now.
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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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Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:30:00 GMT
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- April 22, 2008, 5:30 PM to
- April 23, 2008, 3:00 PM to
On April 23, 2008, the Wolfensohn Center for Development, in cooperation with the Committee for Economic Development, held an International Early Child Development Conference in The Hague, The Netherlands. The conference focused on raising awareness of early child development in emerging markets and developing countries and fostering support from the European business community.
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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, 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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Mon, 17 Mar 2008 12:00:00 GMT
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- March 17, 2008, 12:00 PM to 01:30 PM
On Monday, March 17, Brookings Vice President Bruce Katz hosted a discussion on the twenty-first century gateways to discuss the trends and growth patterns that have been largely unexamined until now. The discussion featured the work of demographer and immigration expert Audrey Singer and others who highlighted the current context of immigration and local response.
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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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Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Hugh B. Price and Oliver Sloman look at the challenge in linking community agencies like the YMCA, as well as local schools, with health care professionals who can help children and their families ward off obesity and curtail the accompanying chronic illnesses.
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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, 16 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT
In testimony before the D.C. City Council Committee on Housing and Urban Affairs, Alice M. Rivlin presents recommendations for reducing poverty in the District. She gives examples of education and training programs that could be funded in the FY2009 budget and reviews longer-term workforce development strategies.
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Fri, 11 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Brookings Expert Gregg Easterbrook and Harvard Law School's Elizabeth Warren discuss the squeeze on the American middle class.
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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 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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Wed, 14 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Michael O'Hanlon and Barbara Firestone believe early diagnosis of Autism is not enough. They argue that state mandates on health insurance providers covering intervention therapies and education are the best policy option to ensure needed services are available to children in the United States.
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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 15:25:19 GMT
The president’s veto of legislation to reauthorize the popular SCHIP program has ramifications for children and for next year’s elections. Brookings’s Henry Aaron talks about what is at stake in the congressional debate about health coverage for low-income children.
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Thu, 04 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Presentation by William A. Galston (10/04/07)
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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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Mon, 23 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Matt Fellowes examines the higher prices lower-income workers pay for basic necessities--home loans, groceries, and financial services--and outlines a combination of initiatives that can bring down business costs.
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Mon, 23 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Interview with William A. Galston; NPR's Tell Me More (7/23/07)
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Sun, 15 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Melissa S. Kearney and Phillip B. Levine take an analysis of the relationship between rates of socioeconomic disadvantage among women at birth and their subsequent rates of early childbearing.
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Fri, 13 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Though most do not recognize it as an "urban" program, the Earned Income Tax Credit provides significant benefits to families in cities and suburbs, and stimulates local economic activity. In this presentation to Congressional staff organized by Living Cities, Alan Berube examines what Members can do to maximize the benefits of the EITC for lower-income families and communities in their districts.
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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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Thu, 17 May 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Interview with Jonathan Rauch, NPR "Day to Day" (5/17/07)