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Better strategies for babies: Strengthening the caregivers and families of infants and toddlers An overview of state and local efforts to provide assistance to low income parents, currently in or moving into the workforce, in the areas of infant and toddler child care, healthy parent child relationships, and economic security |
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Child care choices of working women in the U.S.: Implications for public policy An overview of factors influencing child care decisions of working mothers, and the implications on public policy, in the late-1980s |
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Child care quality: Does it matter and does it need to be improved? An investigation of the justification for public intervention to improve the quality of non-parental child care for children from lower-income families adduced from evidence from large- and small-scale studies of the effects of child care on children’s development with a presentation of the economic rationale that emerges from that evidence |
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Child Care, Welfare and Families: The Nexus of Policies, Practices, and Systems An examination of the role of welfare policies and practices in shaping child care for low-income families, building on the Urban Institute's New Federalism Project. Key issues include: (1) how child care and welfare systems are organized at State and local levels; (2) the advantages and disadvantages of various approaches; and (3) how overlap and duplication are being addressed. |
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Creating dedicated local revenue sources for early care and education 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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The effect of the child-care credit on low- and middle-income taxpayers' purchases of child care An examination of the effect child care tax credits have on low and middle-income families’ consumption of commercial child care services, using 1983 and 1987 Internal Revenue Service individual tax files |
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The effects of welfare reform policies on children: Lessons from MFIP (Minnesota Family Investment Program) An overview of the Minnesota Family Investment Program (MFIP), which offered financial work incentives for single parents on welfare, with a summary of the program's effects on single mothers and their children |
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The Family Transition Program: Final report on Florida's initial time-limited welfare program Findings from a long-term assessment of the Family Transition Program (FTP) in Escambia County, Florida comparing FTP program participants to those participating in Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) |
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The Family Transition Program: Final report on Florida's initial time-limited welfare program [Executive summary] A summary of findings from a long-term assessment of the Family Transition Program (FTP) in Escambia County, Florida comparing FTP program participants to those participating in Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) |
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The Family Transition Program: Final report on Florida's initial time-limited welfare program [Summary report] A brief report of findings from a long-term assessment of the Family Transition Program (FTP) in Escambia County, Florida comparing FTP program participants to those participating in Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) |
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Federal resources available for child care: Hearing before the Subcommittee on Human Resources of the Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives, One Hundred Sixth Congress, First session, March 16, 1999 A transcript of proceeding of the March 16, 1999 hearing on the use of federal resources for child care before the Subcommittee on Human Resources of the House of Representatives’ Committee on Ways and Means |
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The incentives of government programs and the well-being of families An examination of the material conditions of single mothers and their families before and soon after welfare reform in order to assess the net effect of policy changes on the well-being of families, using data from the Consumer Expenditure Survey and the Panel Study of Income Dynamics |
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Making single mothers work: Recent tax and welfare policy and its effects A description of changes in United States social and tax policy encouraging single mothers to work and an econometric examination of the changes on employment |
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Maternalism redefined: Gender, the state, and the politics of day care, 1945-1962 An exploration of the relationship between publicly funded child care policies and welfare program policies in the United States |
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Parental leave policies: An essential ingredient in early childhood education and care policies A report on parental leave policies as related to early childhood education and care policies |
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Politics and professionalization: An analysis of welfare reform and the child care professional movement An inquiry into the influence of the 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) on Pennsylvania’s professional child care movement, based on observations of and interviews with the Pennsylvania Child Care Coalition and the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare |
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Reforming welfare and rewarding work: A summary of the final report on the Minnesota Family Investment Program An executive summary of a report on the impacts on parents and children of the Minnesota Family Investment Program, an alternative welfare-to-work program for Aid to Families with Dependent Children recipients |
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Remember the children: Mothers balance work and child care under welfare reform: Growing Up in Poverty Project 2000: Wave 1 findings: California, Connecticut, Florida A study of the employment, child care, and child outcomes of low-income single mothers, and their children, entering new welfare programs in California, Connecticut, and Florida in 1998 |
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Remember the children: Mothers balance work and child care under welfare reform: Growing Up in Poverty Project 2000: Wave 1 findings: California, Connecticut, Florida [Executive summary] A study of the impact of welfare reform on the upbringing and development job based on detailed information of 948 baseline families spread across three states |
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The Responses of Single Mothers to Welfare and Child Care Subsidy Programs under the New Welfare Reform Act A comprehensive analysis of single mothers' employment, child care payment, welfare, and child care subsidy decisions in the new welfare environment, using a data set from the National Survey of America's Families. The study models the effects of wages, child care prices, welfare program rules, subsidy benefit, and reimbursement rates on single mothers' welfare participation, use of child care subsidies, employment, and child care payment decisions. The goal of the research is to better understand the barriers that discourage mothers from participating in welfare and child care subsidy programs. |
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The Self-Sufficiency Project at 36 months: Effects on children of a program that increased parental employment and income The 36 month report on the Self-Sufficiency Project, which is a research and demonstration project that examines the ways in which programs that increase employment and income affect low-income parents and children |
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The Self-Sufficiency Project at 36 months: Effects on children of a program that increased parental employment and income [Executive summary] Summary of the 36 month report on the Self-Sufficiency Project, which is a research and demonstration project that examines the ways in which programs that increase employment and income affect low-income parents and children |
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TANF funds may be used to create or expand refundable state child care tax credits A brief discussion of refundable state child care tax credits and how Temporary Aid to Needy Families funds may be used to create them |
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Welfare reform under PRWORA: Aid to children with working families? An overview of changes made to the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and Child Care Development Fund (CCDF) programs under the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act (PWRORA) of 1996, with a discussion of the influences of these changes on incentives for states and families, and a preliminary assessment of the impact of PRWORA on state and local governments and low income families with children |
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When mom must work: Family day care as a welfare-to-work option A paper examining the use of family day care as an employment option for people on social assistance |
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