''You have to push it--who's gonna raise your kids?'': Situating child care and child care subsidy use in the daily routines of lower-income families

Author(s): Lowe, Edward D.; Weisner, Thomas S.;
Date Issued: 2001
Publisher(s): MDRC
Description: A study of the factors explaining the low and episodic use of center-based child care and child care subsidy programs, on the basis of data from the New Hope Ethnographic Study.
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Funder(s): David & Lucile Packard Foundation ; William T. Grant Foundation ; John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation ; J. P. Morgan Chase Foundation
Source: (The Next Generation Working Paper Series No. 7). New York: MDRC. Retrieved November 30, 2005, from http://www.mdrc.org/ng_working_papers/NG_WkgPpr_7/NG_SituatingChildCare_WP7.pdf
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Topics: Parents & Families > Selection Of Child Care & Early Education Arrangements

Parents & Families > Family Characteristics > Families & Work

Policies > Child Care & Early Education Policies > Subsidies
Country: United States
States: WISCONSIN
Unit Of Analysis: Family
Universe: Families in one of two neighborhoods in Milwaukee with parents who were more than 18 years of age, had income at or below 150% of the poverty level, had at least one child between the ages of 1 and 10, and were willing to work at least 30 hours per week
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