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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
Parrott, Sharon, 2003
Washington, DC: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.

A report comparing the levels of child care funding included in the proposed TANF reauthorization legislation to the estimated fiscal need

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America's children: Key national indicators of well-being, 2002
Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics (U.S.), 2002
Washington, DC: Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics.

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

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America's children: Key national indicators of well-being, 2003
Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics (U.S.), 2003
Washington, DC: Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics.

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

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Assessing the New Federalism: Eight years later
Golden, Olivia, 2005
Washington, DC: Urban Institute.

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

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Assessing the quality of child care using longitudinal, administrative data: What can it tell us and how can it be used?
Witte, Ann D., 2005
Wellesley, MA: Wellesley College, Department of Economics.

A study analyzing administrative data from Miami-Dade County, Florida to determine the impact of welfare reform on child care quality

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Attitudes toward child support and the Child Support Agency
Great Britain. Department for Work and Pensions, 2002
(In-House Report No. 100). London: Great Britain, Department for Work and Pensions.

An exploration of attitudes towards the child support system in England, and a description of proposed reforms to the system

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Attitudes towards child support and knowledge of the Child Support Agency, 2004
Peacey, Victoria, 2004
London: Great Britain, Department for Work and Pensions.

Highlights from a study exploring public opinions and attitudes towards child support and the Child Support Agency in England

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Barriers to child care subsidies: Why subsidies are often not used
Shlay, Anne B., 2002
In C. J. Groark, K. E. Mehaffie, R. B. McCall, M. T. Greenberg, & Universities Children's Policy Collaborative (Eds.), From science to policy: Research on issues, programs and policies in early care and education. Harrisburg: Pennsylvania Governor's Task Force on Early Childhood Education.

A discussion of barriers to child care policy participation in the United States

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Better strategies for babies: Strengthening the caregivers and families of infants and toddlers
Gilman, Elizabeth, February 2000
(Children and Welfare Reform Issue Brief No. 7). New York: Columbia University, National Center for Children in Poverty.

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 benefit reform and labor market participation
Tamm, Marcus, June 2010
Jahrbuecher fuer Nationaloekonomie und Statistik, 230(4), 313-327

A comparison of the labor force participation of mothers under two child subsidy policies in western Germany

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Child care: Additional information is needed on working families receiving subsidies
United States. Government Accountability Office, 2005
(GAO-05-667). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Accountability Office.

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)

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Child care after leaving welfare: Early evidence from state studies
Schumacher, Rachel, 1999
Washington, DC: Center for Law and Social Policy.

A review of findings from studies of child care subsidy use and child care arrangements among welfare leavers.

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Child care after leaving welfare: Early evidence from state studies [Executive summary]
Schumacher, Rachel, 1999
Washington, DC: Center for Law and Social Policy.

A summary of findings from studies of child care subsidy use and child care arrangements among welfare leavers.

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Child care and employment: Evidence from random assignment studies of welfare and work programs
Gennetian, Lisa A., 2003
(Next Generation Working Paper Series No. 17). New York: MDRC.

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

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Child care and welfare reform
Adams, Gina, 2002
(Welfare Reform & Beyond Policy Brief No. 14). Washington, DC: Brookings Institution.

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

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Child care and welfare reform
Handen, Angela D., 2005
Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Oklahoma, Norman

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

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Child care assistance policies 2005: States fail to make up lost ground, families continue to lack critical support
Schulman, Karen, 2005
Washington, DC: National Women's Law Center.

Descriptions of child care financial assistance policies and tables of child care subsidy eligibility criteria state-by-state for the United States, 2001-2005

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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: Child care subsidies increase likelihood that low-income mothers will work
United States. General Accounting Office. Health, Education, and Human Services Division, 1994
(GAO/HEHS-95-20). Washington, DC: U.S. General Accounting Office.

A report on the effects of subsidized child care on mothers' workforce participation

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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 in the postwelfare reform era: Analysis and strategies for advocates
Gong, Jo Ann, 1999
(1999, January-February) Clearinghouse Review

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

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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, parental choice, and consumer education in JOBS welfare-to-work programs
Meyers, Marcia K., 1995
Social Service Review, 69(4), 679-702

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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Child care preferences and choices: Are AFDC recipients unique?
Meyers, Marcia K., 1992
Social Work Research & Abstracts, 28(1), 28-34

An analysis of data concerning child care decisions, arrangements, and attitudes of single mothers entering the Job Opportunities and Basic Skills (JOBS) program in California

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