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The crisis of care
Thorne, Barrie, 2004
In Work-family challenges for low-income parents and their children (pp. 165-178). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers.

A discussion based on qualitative case studies of how American families from diverse backgrounds cope with limited access to high quality child care.

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An examination of the child care choices of low-income families receiving child care subsidies
Witte, Ann D., 2004
Wellesley, MA: Wellesley College, Department of Economics.

A study of the household and community characteristics associated with the child care choices of families receiving child care subsidies, a presentation of econometric models of child care decision making for subsidy-receiving families, and a study of resulting changes in child care choices following a 2001 reform of subsidy policy, based on data collected from all Rhode Island families receiving child care subsidies between May 1996 and June 2002

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An examination of the child care choices of low-income families receiving child care subsidies: Executive summary
Witte, Ann D., 2004
Wellesley, MA: Wellesley College, Department of Economics.

A summary of findings from a study of the impact of household characteristics, the number of children in the household receiving subsidies, and policy and administrative changes to the child care subsidy program on the child care choices of subsidized families in Rhode Island.

Executive Summary


Not-so-nuclear families: Class, gender, and networks of care
Hansen, Karen V., 2004
Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers University Press

A description of qualitative research on the child care networks of four families who represent four different levels of social class

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Recent actions by the Department of Human Services jeopardize Mississippi's educational and economic future
Columbia University. National Center for Children and Families, 2004
New York: Columbia University, National Center for Children and Families.

A brief discussing policy changes affecting child care subsidy eligibility for Mississippi's low income families, particularly parents trying to earn college degrees

Fact Sheets & Briefs


States limit child care help for low-income working families
National Women's Law Center, 2004
Washington, DC: National Women's Law Center.

A brief on changes in state child care assistance programs that have been detrimental to low-income working families

Fact Sheets & Briefs


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