Administration is misstating amount of child care funding in pending TANF reauthorization bills: Bills provide far less funding than has been claimed and would cause large reductions in the number of children assisted
A report comparing the levels of child care funding included in the proposed TANF reauthorization legislation to the estimated fiscal need
Fact Sheets & Briefs
America's children: Key national indicators of well-being, 2002
Highlights from a 2002 national survey depicting the well-being of children in the areas of economic security, health, behavior and social environment, and education
Reports & Papers
America's children: Key national indicators of well-being, 2003
Highlights from a 2003 national survey depicting the well-being of children in the areas of economic security, health, behavior and social environment, and education
Reports & Papers
Are strong work-first welfare policies aligned with generous child care provisions?: What states are doing and the implications for social work
Welfare reform devolved authority to states in designing and implementing Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and child care subsidy programs, thereby creating substantial variation in both programs across states. TANF and child care subsidy programs are, in theory, designed to work together to support employment among low-income families, yet we have little information on how these two programs collectively impact work and family life among the target population. This study examines the intensity of TANF work requirements and generosity of child care subsidy provisions across states and the interaction of the two programs. Overall, we find that states with stringent work requirements do not typically provide generous child care subsidies. This article discusses the implications for families, policy, and social work practice in light of our findings. (author abstract)
Reports & Papers
Assessing the New Federalism: Eight years later
A compilation of findings from Assessing the New Federalism (ANF), a longitudinal survey-based project analyzing the effects of welfare reform in 1997, 1999, and 2002
Reports & Papers
Assessing the quality of child care using longitudinal, administrative data: What can it tell us and how can it be used?
A study analyzing administrative data from Miami-Dade County, Florida to determine the impact of welfare reform on child care quality
Reports & Papers
Attitudes toward child support and the Child Support Agency
An exploration of attitudes towards the child support system in England, and a description of proposed reforms to the system
Reports & Papers
Attitudes towards child support and knowledge of the Child Support Agency, 2004
Highlights from a study exploring public opinions and attitudes towards child support and the Child Support Agency in England
Fact Sheets & Briefs
Barriers to child care subsidies: Why subsidies are often not used
A discussion of barriers to child care policy participation in the United States
Other
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
Fact Sheets & Briefs
Child benefit reform and labor market participation
A comparison of the labor force participation of mothers under two child subsidy policies in western Germany
Reports & Papers
Child care: Additional information is needed on working families receiving subsidies
An evaluation of providing state-funded child care assistance and subsidies for low-income families and reauthorizing the Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)
Other
Child care after leaving welfare: Early evidence from state studies
A review of findings from studies of child care subsidy use and child care arrangements among welfare leavers.
Other
Child care after leaving welfare: Early evidence from state studies [Executive summary]
A summary of findings from studies of child care subsidy use and child care arrangements among welfare leavers.
Executive Summary
Child care and employment: Evidence from random assignment studies of welfare and work programs
An investigation into the effects of welfare reform policies and links between employment and child care choices, using data from random assignment pilot welfare programs begun between 1993 and 1996 in a variety of urban and rural areas in the United States
Reports & Papers
Child care and welfare reform
An overview the evolution of federal child care subsidy policy since 1996, a discussion of the use of subsidized child care among low-income populations, and an identification of possible themes in the debate over the reauthorization of federal funds for the subsidy, expansion, and improvement of child care and early education services
Fact Sheets & Briefs
Child care and welfare reform
An analysis of the impact of the Reaching for the Stars program, an Oklahoma state childcare quality improvement system, on low-income families, their children, child care providers, and the children they serve
Reports & Papers
Child care assistance policies 2005: States fail to make up lost ground, families continue to lack critical support
Descriptions of child care financial assistance policies and tables of child care subsidy eligibility criteria state-by-state for the United States, 2001-2005
Fact Sheets & Briefs
Childcare as a work support, a child-focused intervention, and a job
A chapter suggesting child care providers' occupational stress may interfere with their ability to provide children with quality care
Other
Child care: Child care subsidies increase likelihood that low-income mothers will work
A report on the effects of subsidized child care on mothers' workforce participation
Reports & Papers
Childcare for low-income families: Problems and promise
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
Other
Child care for low-income families: Problems and promises
A discussion of the challenges faced by low income families seeking high quality child care, based on data from the Next Generation Project.
Other
Child care in the postwelfare reform era: Analysis and strategies for advocates
An overview of changes to welfare reform under the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) of 1996, with recommendations of strategies for advocates working with families receiving welfare
Fact Sheets & Briefs
Child care: Issues for low income women
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
Other
Child care, parental choice, and consumer education in JOBS welfare-to-work programs
An analysis of welfare reform's design to move parents, including those with young children, into the labor force and the manifold issues that arise: child care choices and adequacy of choices, parental child care choice, and consumer education regarding welfare reform
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