Children & Families

Up Front

COVID-19 could erase parenting gains of the last 30 years

Rebecca Ryan, Ariel Kalil, Susan Mayer, and Rohen Shah

Monday, October 26, 2020

The Avenue

How a New Haven library is connecting residents to the city’s innovation economy

Margaret Sullivan

Monday, October 26, 2020

People walk on the esplanade of La Defense, in the financial and business district, west of Paris, France, October 6, 2017. REUTERS/Charles Platiau - RC1B9BB86D30

Up Front

Class Notes: Parents are worried about their sons, falling college enrollment, and more

Ember Smith and Richard V. Reeves

Wednesday, October 22, 2020

Education Plus Development

Can new forms of parent engagement be an education game changer post-COVID-19?

Rebecca Winthrop

Wednesday, October 21, 2020

Reports

Essay

How We Rise: How social networks in Charlotte impact economic mobility

Camille Busette, Tonya Farrow-Chestnut, Richard V. Reeves, Kwadwo Frimpong, and Hao Sun

Friday, October 16, 2020

Report

Scaling playful learning: How cities can reimagine public spaces to support children and families

Helen Shwe Hadani and Jennifer S. Vey

Friday, September 4, 2020

Housing Markets & Finance

What will it cost to save Washington, D.C.’s renters from COVID-19 eviction?

Michael Bailey, Eric LaRose, and Jenny Schuetz

Thursday, July 23, 2020

Lisa Collinsworth (R) holds her baby son Luke during a visit with him at Lily's Place, a treatment center for opioid-dependent newborns in Huntington, West Virginia, October 19, 2015. Picture taken October 19, 2015. To match Special Report BABY-OPIOIDS/ REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

Report

All in the family: A comprehensive approach to maternal and child health in the opioid crisis

N. Jia Ahmad, Joshua M. Sharfstein, and Paul H. Wise

Wednesday, July 22, 2020

Business & Industry

Local service corps can address unemployment and community need

Martha Ross, Suzanna Fritzberg, Josh Carpenter, and Sarena Martinez

July 23, 2020

Blog Posts

Up Front

Class Notes: Affirmative action and student achievement, unequal income growth, and more

Ember Smith and Richard V. Reeves

Wednesday, October 7, 2020

Education Plus Development

COVID-19 gives the FCC a platform to leverage educational programming

Jill Shinderman

Wednesday, October 7, 2020

Up Front

Class Notes: Our New Contract with the Middle Class

Ember Smith and Richard V. Reeves

Wednesday, September 23, 2020

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Events

2020

Sep

Past Event

The 2020 American Family Survey: Attitudes toward family, COVID-19, politics, race, and economic well-being

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM EDT

How cultural factors shape children’s economic outcomes

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EDT

Webinar: How we rise — Policy solutions to upend structural racism and inequality

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EDT

Online-only

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Related Books

Generation Unbound

By Isabel V. Sawhill

2014

Policies to Address Poverty in America

By Benjamin H. Harris and Melissa S. Kearney

2014

Voices for Children

By William T. Gormley

2012

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Experts

Rashawn Ray

David M. Rubenstein Fellow - Governance Studies

@SociologistRay

Isabel V. Sawhill

Senior Fellow - Economic Studies, Center on Children and Families, Future of the Middle Class Initiative

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Ron Haskins

Senior Fellow Emeritus - Economic Studies

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Multimedia

A group of children sit on a couch in a replica set from the "Seinfeld" television comedy series as they tour Hulu's "Seinfeld: The Apartment", a temporary exhibit on West 14th street in the Manhattan borough of New York City, June 24, 2015. Created to celebrate the launch of all of the episodes of the "Seinfeld" television comedy series available streaming on Hulu beginning June 24, the exhibit contains a replica version of the Upper West Side NewYork City apartment set from the series, original items and interactive elements and is open to the public through June 28. REUTERS/Mike Segar

Podcast Episode

How cultural factors shape children’s social and economic outcomes

Ron Haskins, Melissa S. Kearney, and Fred Dews

Friday, July 24, 2020

Children & Families

Policies to improve family stability

Rashawn Ray

Wednesday, April 8, 2020

Nurse practitioner Gail Brown (L) an unidentified patient and other nurses look at a print out of an ultrasound from a prenatal exam at the Maternity Outreach Mobile in Phoenix, Arizona October 8, 2009. The maternity outreach program helps uninsured women living in the Phoenix metropolitan area receive the proper treatment and care during and after their pregnancy. The Maternity Outreach Mobile is equipped with two exam rooms, an ultrasound machine, an external fetal monitor, a laboratory and offers pregnancy tests, referrals and immunization for children. REUTERS/Joshua Lott (UNITED STATES - Tags: HEALTH SOCIETY) - WASE5A91J3I01

Podcast Episode

What can we do to reduce unplanned pregnancies?

Isabel V. Sawhill, Jack Markell, and Mark Edwards

Friday, July 19, 2019

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