Children & Families

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: Wealth taxation, US wage growth, and more

Chenoah Sinclair and Richard V. Reeves

Wednesday, January 15, 2020

Women with dogs walk through the snow after the first lake-effect snowfall of the season at Knox Farm State Park in the Buffalo suburb of East Aurora, New York, U.S. December 8, 2017. REUTERS/Lindsay Dedario

Up Front

Hindsight is 2020: Reflecting on a decade of research on the future of the middle class

Richard V. Reeves and Hannah Van Drie

Monday, December 30, 2019

Up Front

Class Notes: Virtual college counseling, rainy-day savings accounts, and more

Chenoah Sinclair and Richard V. Reeves

Wednesday, December 11, 2019

A child gets some help with balance as they skate at the Bryant Park Skating rink in the Manhattan borough of New York November 30, 2014. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri (UNITED STATES - Tags: SOCIETY TRAVEL) - GM1EAC10E0T01

Middle Class

A primer on access to and use of paid family leave

Isabel V. Sawhill, Sarah Nzau, and Katherine Guyot

Thursday, December 5, 2019

Reports

Report

Modeling community efforts to reduce childhood obesity

Matt Kasman, Ross A. Hammond, Benjamin Heuberger, Rob Purcell, Austen Mack-Crane, Christina Economos, Boyd Swinburn, Steven Allender, and Melanie Nichols

Monday, August 26, 2019

Children & Families

Preventing unplanned pregnancy: Lessons from the states

Isabel V. Sawhill and Katherine Guyot

Monday, June 24, 2019

Labor Policy & Unemployment

Meet the millions of young adults who are out of work

Martha Ross and Natalie Holmes

April 9, 2019

India

Early life exposure to outdoor air pollution: Effect on child health in India

Prachi Singh, Sagnik Dey, Sourangsu Chowdhury, and Kunal Bali

Tuesday, March 12, 2019

Nobel Lett (R), who suffers from Prader-Willi Syndrome and is treated under the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), eats a snack with his family after school in his home in Columbus, Ohio, U.S. January 17, 2018. REUTERS/Maddie McGarvey - RC14BB847C60

Children & Families

Where’s the glue? Policies to close the family gap

Richard V. Reeves

Monday, March 4, 2019

Blog Posts

Up Front

Class Notes: Immigrants’ upward mobility, paid family leave, and more

Chenoah Sinclair and Richard V. Reeves

Wednesday, November 13, 2019

Jayme Sheppard carries her daughter Hope, who was enrolled in kindergarten at the Plaza Towers elementary school, on her shoulders as she departs a ceremonial last day of the school year at the Eastlake Elementary School in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, May 23, 2013. Seven students were killed at Plaza Towers Elementary when a tornado packing winds of 200 miles (320 km) per hour slammed into the building on Monday afternoon just before school was to have let out. The massive tornado obliterated sections of Moore, Oklahoma, leaving 24 dead on May 20. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson (UNITED STATES - Tags: DISASTER ENVIRONMENT) - GM1E95O08WU01

Education Plus Development

From trauma-informed to asset-informed care in early childhood

Ellen Galinsky

Wednesday, October 23, 2019

Kids play outside of their home in the West Washington neighborhood in South Bend, Indiana, U.S., June 26, 2019. Picture taken June 26, 2019. REUTERS/Joshua Lott - RC1BE196F320

Education Plus Development

Moving on up: More than relocation as a path out of child poverty

Lisa A. Gennetian and Kathy Hirsh-Pasek

Thursday, October 17, 2019

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Events

2019

Oct

Past Event

The challenges facing America’s veterans

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM EDT

What is the impact of persistent military spouse unemployment?

10:00 AM - 11:30 AM EDT

Fifth annual American Family Survey: Myths about families, plus what Americans really think about paid family leave

10:00 AM - 11:15 AM EDT

Washington, DC

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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

Isabel V. Sawhill

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

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Ron Haskins

The Cabot Family Chair

Senior Fellow - Economic Studies

Co-Director - Center on Children and Families

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Multimedia

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

A young woman holds her daughter at a playground in Winthrop Harbor, Illinois.

Children & Families

Improving opportunity with policies for women and families

Isabel V. Sawhill and Fred Dews

Friday, May 11, 2018

Brookings Now

Robots aren’t taking the jobs, just the paychecks—and other new findings in economics

Brennan Hoban

Thursday, March 8, 2018

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