Children & Families

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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

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

A boy carries bread on his head at al-Hol displacement camp in Hasaka governorate, Syria April 2, 2019. REUTERS/Ali Hashisho - RC1D6612CE50

Order from Chaos

The fallout from President Trump’s Syria withdrawal: Don’t forget the children

Eric Rosand and Stevan Weine

Wednesday, October 16, 2019

Reports

little boy plays on a swingset

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

birth control pills

Children & Families

Preventing unplanned pregnancy: Lessons from the states

Isabel V. Sawhill and Katherine Guyot

Monday, June 24, 2019

Meet the out-of-work young adults

Labor Policy & Unemployment

Meet the millions of young adults who are out of work

Martha Ross and Natalie Holmes

April 9, 2019

A man walks in front of the India Gate shrouded in smog in New Delhi, India, October 29, 2018. REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RC113DDAC100

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

Pupils react after receiving their A-level exam results at St Leonards-Mayfield School in Mayfield, southern England August 15, 2013. More than 300,000 teenage students received their A-level results, in England, Wales and Northern Ireland on Thursday. REUTERS/Neil Hall (BRITAIN - Tags: EDUCATION SOCIETY) - LM1E98F0SJU01

Education Plus Development

How do social and emotional skills develop in youth?

Helyn Kim and Katherine M. Ross

Friday, August 9, 2019

Dietician Krista Mangan prepares an examination room at the Women, Infants and Children (WIC) office inside a Salt Lake County health clinic in South Salt Lake City, Utah, October 2, 2013. The Salt Lake County government appropriated special funding to continue to offer certain aspects of federally funded WIC program for a week while many other WIC offices in Utah have been shut due the federal government shutdown, according to county authorities. REUTERS/Jim Urquhart (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS HEALTH BUSINESS) - GM1E9A30MYF01

Up Front

Reducing access to contraception won’t reduce the abortion rate

Katherine Guyot and Isabel V. Sawhill

Monday, July 29, 2019

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: Universal family care, minimum wage analysis, and more

Sarah Nzau and Richard V. Reeves

Wednesday, July 17, 2019

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Events

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

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Related Books

generation unbound

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

Experts

Women eat watermelons at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, California April 10, 2015. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson - GF10000055583

Up Front

Are the kids alright? Saving and wealth accumulation among the millennial generation

William G. Gale

Wednesday, March 20, 2019

Mar 17, 2019; Nashville, TN, USA; A member of the Bridgestone Arena crew sweeps confetti off the court after a win by the Auburn Tigers over the Tennessee Volunteers in the SEC conference tournament championship game at Bridgestone Arena. Mandatory Credit: Christopher Hanewinckel-USA TODAY Sports - 12368716

Up Front

College sports joins the marketplace, with limits

Robert E. Litan

Tuesday, March 19, 2019

Isabel V. Sawhill

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

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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

Employees at work at an Amazon factory.

Brookings Now

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

Thursday, March 8, 2018

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