2012 report: Migrant and Seasonal Head Start Supplement to the National Agricultural Worker Survey
Findings on the characteristics of families with children under 6 years old from the National Agricultural Worker Survey (NAWS), a national random sample survey of crop farmworkers, and findings on families' child care experiences from the NAWS Migrant and Seasonal Head Start Supplement, which is administered to NAWS respondents with children under the age of 6
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Child care choices, consumer education, and low-income families
A policy paper exploring issues surrounding child care choices, consumer advocacy and low-income families
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Child care expenses of America's families
A study of the child care expenses of working families with children under age 13, with particular attention to low-income families.
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The child care industry: Supporting jobs and economic development in Minneapolis
An analysis of child care in Minneapolis as a service for working parents and their children and as an integral component of the local economy
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Child care in rural areas: Top challenges
An examination of child care challenges facing child care providers and parents in rural areas, based on survey responses from child care resource and referral agencies in 42 states
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Child care subsidies and employment behavior among very-low-income populations in three states
An estimation of the effect of child care subsidies on single parent welfare recipients’ period of transition to substantial employment
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Child care subsidies and leaving welfare: Policy issues and strategies
The second part of a three-part study of the interaction between state and local welfare-to-work programs and child care assistance programs, focusing on child care subsidy use by parents in transition from TANF to employment
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Child care subsidies, Low-wage work and economic development
A longitudinal study of the employment and earnings of low income parents participating in Minnesota’s child care subsidy program and a comparison of their earnings by industry sector
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Child care subsidies, wages, and employment of single mothers
An analysis of the effects of the price of child care and the wage rate on employment and child care decisions among single mothers in the early post-welfare reform period, using data from the National Survey of America's Families
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Child care, subsidy receipt and state of residence: Comparisons by age and parent work schedule
A study of the differences in child care arrangements as it relates to costs of care and state of residence among children in families eligible for subsidies
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Child care through the eyes of parents, children and child care providers: Significant male figures' perceptions of child care
Findings from a study of child care practices, needs, opinions, and beliefs among significant male figures in a sample of low- and middle-income families in Minnesota, based on interviews with 18 men, including biological fathers, stepfathers, uncles, grandfathers, boyfriends, friends of mothers, and other male figures
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Child care under the Family Support Act: Early lessons from the states
A study of the Head Start program’s effects on disadvantaged rural students development compared with non-Head Start rural students, based on results from the analysis of variance studies in testing of 144 children in Mississippi enrolled in Head Start I and Head Start II programs, and a non-Head Start control group
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Child care use by low-income families in rural areas: A contemporary look at the influence of women's work and partner availability
A descriptive analysis of child care patterns of 323 low-income women living in rural counties, in relation to women's employment status, partner availability, and child age
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Child care use in Minnesota: 2004 statewide household child care survey
An inquiry into the availability, quality, and affordability of child care, based on information from the 2004 Statewide Household Child Care Survey of 1,363 households in Minnesota
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Child care use in Minnesota: Report of the 1999 statewide household child care survey
A report on the child care arrangements of children aged 14 and under in Minnesota
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Child care use in Minnesota: Report of the 2009 statewide household child care survey
A study of the characteristics of Minnesota households' child care use, including arrangements, hours, schedules, costs, decisionmaking, and satisfaction, based on a survey of 1,209 households with at least one child 12 years old or younger
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Children's achievement in early elementary school: Longitudinal effects of parental involvement, expectations, and quality of assistance
A longitudinal study exploring the relationship between children's academic achievement and parents' involvement in their children's school experience, their expectations regarding their children's achievement, and quality of instruction prior to school entry
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Children's Home Society of Minnesota client focus group project: Parents' views on child care and child care assistance in the first year of statewide welfare reform
An exploration of parents’ views on the accessibility and quality of child care services under the Minnesota Family Investment Program (MFIP), a statewide welfare reform policy, based on interviews with parents of children in Children’s Home Society child care centers
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The determinants and consequences of child care subsidies for single mothers in the USA
A study of the effects of child care subsidies on the employment, school, and welfare participation of single mothers following the passage of the 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA)
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The effects of welfare and employment policies on child care use by low-income young mothers
A study examining the welfare and employer child care policies on low income young mothers, using data from the National Evaluation of Welfare-to-Work Strategies (NEWWS), Florida’s Family Transition Program (FTP) and the Minnesota’s Family Investment Program (MFIP)
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Employed rural, low-income, single mothers' family and work over time
A study of perceptions of difficulties and challenges of balancing family, child care, and work responsibilities, based on a secondary analysis of interview data with of 28 rural, low-income, continuously employed, and single mothers across 11 states over three waves of data collection between 1999 and 2003, who took part in the longitidunal Rural Families Speak Project
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Evaluation of the Saint Paul Early Childhood Scholarship Program: Issue Brief 4: Findings from focus groups with participating parents
Findings from an evaluation of the Saint Paul Early Childhood Scholarship Program--a market-oriented scholarship model that includes home visits to inform parents about the benefits of high-quality early care and education, scholarships for low-income families to pay for high-quality early care and education, and Parent Aware, a program quality rating system--that examine the program's influence on parent empowerment and child care decisionmaking, based on 4 parent focus groups
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Families affected by the loss of basic sliding fee child care assistance in 2003: Child protection, school attendance, wage status
An exploration of the well-being of families who no longer participated in the Basic Sliding Fee (BSF) child care assistance program in Minnesota, based on information on 492 families who were either terminated from or had a gap in participation in the BSF program
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Family and individual predictors of child care use by low-income families in different policy contexts
A study of the impact of family and child characteristics on low income parents' use of child care, child care quality and receipt of child care subsidies.
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Family, friend and neighbor child care providers in recent immigrant and refugee communities
An examination of child care practices, needs, and access in recent immigrant and refugee communities in Minnesota, based on focus groups conducted with family, friend, and neighbor (FFN) child care providers in their home languages
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