"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 brief summarizing the findings from 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): William T. Grant Foundation ; John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation ; J. P. Morgan Chase Foundation ; David & Lucile Packard Foundation
Source: New York: MDRC. Retrieved July 5, 2005, from http://www.mdrc.org/publications/380/overview.html
Note: This resource is part of the Next Generation project.
Topics: Policies > Child Care & Early Education Policies > Subsidies
Country: United States
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