Children & Families

Up Front

Six reasons why an expanded Child Tax Credit or child allowance should be part of the US safety net

Melissa S. Kearney

Tuesday, October 12, 2021

Young girl with surgical mask in freezer section of grocery store.

Coronavirus (COVID-19) Economics

An update on the effect of Pandemic EBT on measures of food hardship

Lauren Bauer, Krista Ruffini, and Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach

Wednesday, September 29, 2021

Education Plus Development

Supporting families supports the economy: Social nets are economic foundations

Kathy Hirsh-Pasek and Peg Burchinal

Monday, September 27, 2021

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China’s youth: Increasing diversity amid persistent inequality

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Reports

Essay

Collaborating to transform and improve education systems: A playbook for family-school engagement

Rebecca Winthrop, Adam Barton, Mahsa Ershadi, and Lauren Ziegler

Thursday, September 30, 2021

Essay

Collaborating to transform and improve education systems: A playbook for family-school engagement – Evolution

Rebecca Winthrop, Adam Barton, Mahsa Ershadi, and Lauren Ziegler

Thursday, September 30, 2021

Report

What can social media listening tell us about the desire for education change?

Rebecca Winthrop, Adam Barton, and Lauren Ziegler

Wednesday, September 15, 2021

Essay

Homeownership, racial segregation, and policy solutions to racial wealth equity

Rashawn Ray, Andre M. Perry, David Harshbarger, Samantha Elizondo, and Alexandra Gibbons

Wednesday, September 1, 2021

Social Issues

Beyond ‘food deserts’: America needs a new approach to mapping food insecurity

Caroline George and Adie Tomer

Tuesday, August 17, 2021

Blog Posts

Up Front

The new child tax credit does more than just cut poverty

Jason Jabbari, Leah Hamilton, Stephen Roll, and Michal Grinstein-Weiss

Friday, September 24, 2021

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Up Front

Class Notes: LGBTQ economics, Black extended family networks, and more

Beyond Deng and Richard V. Reeves

Thursday, September 9, 2021

Up Front

Class Notes: The poverty rate, subsidized broadband internet, and more

Ariel Gelrud Shiro and Richard V. Reeves

Thursday, August 26, 2021

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Experts

Rashawn Ray

Senior Fellow - Governance Studies

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Isabel V. Sawhill

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

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Rebecca Winthrop

Co-director - Center for Universal Education

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Multimedia

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer peers out from behind a mock U.S. Treasury check as he holds a press conference on the expanded Child Tax Credit payments at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., July 15, 2021. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

Podcast Episode

How could expanded tax credits reduce child poverty?

Robert Greenstein and Adrianna Pita

Friday, July 16, 2021

Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) students Keiley Flores, 13, Andrea Ramos, 10, and Alexander Ramos, 8, work on school-issued computers with unreliable internet connectivity, as their mother Anely Solis, 32, tries to connect them to her mobile hotspot, during the global outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), at their home in Los Angeles, California, U.S., August 18, 2020. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson

Podcast Episode

How mothers spend their time

Lauren Bauer and Fred Dews

Friday, May 7, 2021

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

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Reports

Transforming education systems through family-school collaboration

The future of early childhood education after COVID-19

How to be a feminist dad

Senior Fellow - Governance Studies

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

Co-director - Center for Universal Education

Senior Fellow - Global Economy and Development