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Childcare as a work support, a child-focused intervention, and a job
Raver, C. Cybele, 2004
In Work-family challenges for low-income parents and their children (pp. 179-190). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers.

A chapter suggesting child care providers' occupational stress may interfere with their ability to provide children with quality care

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Child care employment: Implications for women's self-sufficiency and for child development
Whitebook, Marcy, 1999
New York: Foundation for Child Development.

A study of the poor conditions of the child care workforce, focusing on the profession’s role in employing low-income women, especially those coming off of welfare

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Childcare for low-income families: Problems and promise
Zaslow, Martha, 2004
In Work-family challenges for low-income parents and their children (pp. 191-200). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

A discussion of two major child care policy strands: provide funding to child care to facilitate maternal employment and provide funding to child care and early education to enhance children's cognitive and social development

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Child care for low-income families: Problems and promises
Huston, Aletha C., 2004
In Work-family challenges for low-income parents and their children (pp. 139-164). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

A discussion of the challenges faced by low income families seeking high quality child care, based on data from the Next Generation Project.

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Child care: Funding and spending under federal block grants
Gish, Melinda, 2002
(Order Code RL31274). Washington, DC: Library of Congress, Congressional Research Service.

An analysis of the recent changes, current expenditures, and additional need for federal child care funding for low income families

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Child care helps families work and children learn
Blank, Helen, 2002
In Assessing the Child Care and Development Block Grant: Hearing before the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness of the Committee on Education and the Workforce, House of Representatives. 107th Cong., 2nd Sess.

A testimony to the United States House of Representative Committee on Education and the Workforce Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness about the difficulties working parents face in finding affordable, high quality child care and how improved access to child care and early education resources not only helps children learn to read but helps parents retain the ability to remain employed

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Child care: Issues for low income women
Legal Momentum,
New York: Legal Momentum.

A description by the National Organization for Women (NOW) Legal Defense and Education Fund of state welfare policies affecting child care assistance for low-income mothers

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Child care, maternal employment, and public policy
Hofferth, Sandra L., 1999
Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 563(1), 20-38

A summary of research on the relationship between child care and self-sufficiency, looking at factors influencing child care use, affordability, availability, and quality and discussing the role of federal child care policy.

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Child care, parental leave, and the under 3s: Innovation in Europe
Kamerman, Sheila B., 1991
Dover, MA: Auburn House Publishing Company

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Child care: The role of higher education in policy and practice
McConnell, Scott R., 2001
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, Center for Early Education and Development. Proceedings of the Minnesota Round Table 2001.

A transcript of a round-table discussion on the place for higher education in the evolution and improvement of early education and child care services

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Child care: State programs under the Child Care and Development Fund
Gish, Melinda, 2002
(Order Code RL31605). Washington, DC: Library of Congress, Congressional Research Service

An overview of state programs funded by the Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) after the 1996 welfare reforms

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Child care: Supporting working families: Joint hearing before the Subcommittee on Social Security and Family Policy of the Committee on Finance and the Subcommittee on Children and Families of the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions of the United States Senate, One Hundred Seventh Co
United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance. Subcommittee on Social Security and Family Policy, 2002
(Senate Hearing 107-709). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

A discussion of providing more effective child care options and welfare reform funding for working, low-income families

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The Children Act 1989 and early childhood services
Cameron, Claire, 1995
The Journal of Social Welfare & Family Law, 17(4), 417-429

A review of the United Kingdom welfare measure, the Children Act 1989, and the implications of amending it to include general child care for children under eight years of age.

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Children and welfare reform: Analysis and recommendations
Shields, Margie K., 2002
The Future of Children, 12(1), 5-25

An overview of the effects of welfare reform on children, with recommendations for restructuring welfare services to support children's well-being.

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Closing the care gap that welfare reform left behind
Whilte, Lucie, 2001
Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 577(1), 131-143

A review of the history of welfare reform and an exploration of state policies that could resource child care labor subsidized by low-income women's labor

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Comments to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services regarding the reauthorization of the Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF)
Greenberg, Mark H., 2001
Washington, DC: Center for Law and Social Policy.

Comments on the reauthorization of the Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) by the Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP)

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The Common Core State Standards: Caution and opportunity for early childhood education
National Association for the Education of Young Children, 2011
Washington, DC: National Association for the Education of Young Children.

A discussion of the implications of the Common Core State Standards for early childhood education

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Coordinating with Head Start programs to support low-income working families
Jones, Michelle Ganow, 2003
Welfare Information Network Issue Notes, 7(5).

A brief on ways Head Start, in conjunction with other services and agencies, serves low-income working families

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Creating dedicated local revenue sources for early care and education
Langford, Barbara, 2000
Washington, DC: Finance Project.

A discussion of general principles to guide the selection of strategies to create dedicated revenue sources for early care and education initiatives including six strategies to create dedicated revenue sources for early care and education programs and services that policy makers can implement at the state, city, and/or county levels

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Can we use tax strategies to help finance early care and education?
Stoney, Louise, 13 November, 2006
Raleigh, NC: Smart Start Program, National Technical Assistance Center.

An overview of select federal and state tax policies and credits used to encourage child care use among low-income families, encourage investment in and contributions for early care and education programs, and support improvements in child care quality

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The decline of cash welfare and implications for social policy and poverty
Danziger, Sandra K., 2010
Annual Review of Sociology, 36, 523-545

An overview of trends in welfare program participation, unemployment, and poverty among single-mother families, the decline of cash welfare, and the rise of child care subsidies, with a discussion of the possible influence of the 1996 welfare reform on child outcomes and well being

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Does child care assistance matter?: The effects of welfare and employment programs on child care for very young children
Gennetian, Lisa A., 2001
(The Next Generation Working Paper Series No. 2). New York: MDRC.

An analysis of the effects of child care assistance on infant toddler child care use by low-income single-parent families, using data from five experimental evaluation studies of welfare and employment programs

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Early child care and education: Lessons from the French
McGovern, Mary Ann P., 1998
Child & Youth Care Forum, 27(1), 21-37

A study of French child care provisions and a discussion of similar policy adoptions and their implications for the United States

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Early childhood policy: A comparative perspective
Waldfogel, Jane, 2006
In D.A. Phillips & K. McCartney (Eds.), Blackwell handbook of early childhood development. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing

A comparison of early childhood policy choices made by the United States and other nations in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in the areas of parental leave, early childhood education and care, and child benefits

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Early learning in State Fiscal Stabilization Fund commitments
Regenstein, Elliot M., 08 June, 2009
Washington, DC: EducationCounsel.

A discussion of opportunities to address early learning with the State Fiscal Stabilization Fund of the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act

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