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Caring as social right: Cash for child care and daddy leave
Leira, Arnlaug, 1998
Social Politics, 5(3), 362-378

A study of policies aimed at gender division in family child care and employment policies in Finland, Denmark, Sweden and Norway

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Child care and transportation strategies for rural communities: Meeting the welfare reform challenge
National Rural Development Partnership (U.S.). Welfare Reform Task Force, 1998
(2nd ed.). Washington, DC: National Rural Development Partnership, Welfare Reform Task Force.

A compilation of child care and transportation strategies for community leaders, state officials, and national representatives involved in rural areas, emphasizing assisting individuals in their transition from welfare-to-work by providing them reliable and affordable access to child care

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Childcare and welfare (in)justice
Michel, Sonya, 1998
Feminist Studies, 24(1), 44-54

A discussion of welfare reform and its impact on child care, including a historical perspective on impoverished mothers’ use of social services and the political and social implications of welfare reform policy

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Child care and welfare reform
Lino, Mark, 1998
Family Economics and Nutrition Review, 11(1-2), 41-48

A discussion of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act’s child care provisions, highlighting several state child care initiatives and policies

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Child care assistance under welfare reform: Early responses by the states
Long, Sharon K., 1998
(Occasional Paper No. 15). Washington, DC: Urban Institute.

An exploration of the child care assistance system in place just before the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA) and states’ use of the increased freedom of the Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) to develop new systems of assistance

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The child care protection under TANF
Greenberg, Mark H., 1998
Washington, DC: Center for Law and Social Policy.

A brief on child care protection under Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and its relation to work requirements and time limits

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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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The effects of after-tax wages, transfer payments, and child care expenses on labor market and transfer program participation
Houser, Scott, 1998
(JCPR Working Paper, October 1998, No. 7). Chicago: Joint Center for Poverty Research.

An examination of the influence of after-tax wages, benefit guarantees, child care expenses, and other factors on welfare recipient families’ labor market and transfer program participation

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Helping mothers to combine paid and unpaid work: Or fighting unemployment?: The ambiguities of French family policy
Fagnani, Jeanne, 1998
Community, Work & Family, 1(3), 287-312

A discussion of French policies on subsidizing child care and providing financial benefits discouraging mothers from participating in the workplace

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How different are welfare and working families?: And do those differences matter for children's achievement? [Preliminary conference draft]
Duncan, Greg, 1998
Paper presented at the Family Process and Child Development in Low-Income Families conference of the Joint Center for Poverty Research, Chicago.

A comparison between families receiving Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) and middle class and low-socioeconomic working families in regard to mental health, time organization, household management, and financial expenditures, based on two longitudinal surveys, the National Survey of Families and Households and the Panel Study of Income Dynamics

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Locked doors: States struggling to meet the child care needs of low-income working families [Executive summary]
Adams, Gina, 1998
Washington, DC: Children's Defense Fund

A description of child care pressures for working parents and funding and demand discrepancies in United States child care subsidy policy

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Looking into new mirrors: Lessons for early childhood finance and system-building
Stoney, Louise, 1998
Dorchester, MA: Horizons Initiative.

An exploration of innovative proposals for the funding and expansion of early childhood education and care programs

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Making care less taxing: Improving state child and dependent care tax provisions
Steinschneider, Janice, 1998
Washington, DC: National Women's Law Center.

A policy paper that examines the reasons for enacting child and dependent care (CADC) income tax provisions, describes the federal child and dependent care tax credit, gives an overview of the 1997 state CADC tax provisions, and provides policy recommendations.

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Spend or transfer, federal or state: Considerations in using TANF and TANF-related dollars for child care
Greenberg, Mark H., 1998
Washington, DC: Center for Law and Social Policy.

A brief summarizing options for using Temporary Assistance for Needy Families funds for child care assistance for low-income families and their consequences

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Unintended consequences?: Welfare reform and the working poor
Witte, Ann D., 1998
(NBER Working Paper Series No. 6798). Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research.

A longitudinal study of the impact of the early stages of the 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) on the earnings of poor working families who do not receive cash assistance, examining the relationship between PRWORA welfare reform and a federal minimum wage increase and increased funding for child care subsidies, based on longitudinal data from Florida’s Dade County

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Welfare families' use of early childhood care and education programs, and implications for their children's development
Zaslow, Martha, 1998
Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 13(4), 535-563

A study of the developmental implications of early childhood care and education programs for welfare families, and the predictors of early child care participation

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Where have all the children gone?: The transformation of children into dollars in Public Law 104-193
Finkelstein, Barbara, 1998
In S. Books (Ed.), Invisible children in the society and its schools(pp. 169-182). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates

A discussion of child care policy over the history of the United States beginning in the early 1800’s, the expansion of federal government involvement in the early 1900’s and more so during and after the Great Depression, and the fundamental change welfare reform represents for child care policy in America

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The work-family balance: What hurdles are parents leaving welfare likely to confront?
Heymann, Jody, 1998
Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 17(2), 313-321

A study of the comparative working conditions faced by parents leaving welfare seeking balance between work and child care and the work conditions faced by parents who never received Aid to Families with Dependent Children provisions through analysis of data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth

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