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Changes in Massachusetts welfare and work, child care, and child welfare systems
Kaye, Laura, 2001
(State Update No. 5). Washington DC: Urban Institute.

An overview of the changes in Massachusetts welfare policy as the focus shifts from families on welfare to those leaving welfare

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Child care meets health care: What other states can teach us about insuring the child care workforce in Illinois
Day Care Action Council of Illinois, July, 2003
Chicago: Day Care Action Council of Illinois.

An exploration of program models for the provision of health insurance to early childhood workers, and recommendations for the development of a framework to provide health care coverage to early childhood workers in Illinois, based on case studies of programs currently implemented in California, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and North Carolina

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Child care: Recent state policy changes affecting the availability of assistance for low-income families
United States. General Accounting Office, 2003
(GAO-03-588). Washington, DC: U.S. General Accounting Office.

An examination of state policy developments affecting the availability of child care assistance for low-income families

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Child care subsidies and leaving welfare: Policy issues and strategies
Adams, Gina, 2006
Washington, DC: Urban Institute.

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 use among welfare mothers: A dynamic analysis
Wolf, Douglas A., 1991
Journal of Family Issues, 12(4), 519-536

A study of welfare mothers' child care arrangements and usage trends, particularly the durability of child care arrangements in relationship to child care type and cost, and mothers’ subjective ratings of quality and their impact on the probability of changing or ending their current child care arrangements

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''Head Start works because we do'': Head Start programs, community action agencies, and the struggle over unionization
Pasachoff, Eloise, 2003
Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, 38(1), 247-277

An examination of the clash between Head Start employees’ efforts for unionization and Community Action Agency employers, analyzing the conflict’s practical, rhetorical and legal arenas and proposing strategies for change

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Labor force supply decisions of rural low-income mothers
Mammen, Sheila, March, 2009
Journal of Family and Economic Issues, 30(1), 67-79

A microeconomic study of the associations between both rural low income mothers' decision to work and number of hours worked and mother's individual characteristics, household characteristics, human capital, various household income sources including participation in child care assistance and the Earned Income Tax Credit, and local economic conditions, based on data from 412 families from 23 counties in 13 states

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