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  1. Reducing Disparities Beginning in Early Childhood
    By Kay Johnson, Suzanne Theberge, Project THRIVE; 2007
    Description: This document suggests that reducing the disparate risks and conditions of early childhood is the way to improve health outcomes for children and adults over the long term. Risks for disparate outcomes...
    http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/library/index.cfm?do=oll.viewitem&itemid=35170 (100.00%)


  2. Minnesota Family Investment Program Longitudinal Study: Four Years After Baseline
    By Minnesota Department of Human Services, Program Assessment and Integrity Division; August 2005
    Description: This 2005 report presents the four-year results from the Minnesota Family Investment Program. The goals of the program were to increase employment and earnings, decrease welfare use, and reduce poverty....
    http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/library/index.cfm?do=oll.viewitem&itemid=35108 (100.00%)


  3. Work-Support Spending Varies Widely Across Nation
    By Urban Institute; July 10, 2007
    Description: This news release summarizes findings by the Urban Institute on the variation in work-support spending across States. Nationally, Federal and State governments spent $3,264 per person on the core work-support...
    http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/library/index.cfm?do=oll.viewitem&itemid=34722 (100.00%)


  4. Trends in Work Supports for Low-Income Families with Children
    By Sheila R Zedlewski, Seth Zimmerman; 2007
    Description: This report indicates that work-support spending has grown since 2002, with Medicaid accounting for most of the spending growth. Contains 28 references. FFED0086 Trends Brief 4 2007 2007 Urban Institute
    http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/library/index.cfm?do=oll.viewitem&itemid=34721 (100.00%)


  5. State Early Childhood Policies, Executive Summary
    By Jane Knitzer, Helene Stebbins; 2007
    Description: This report summarizes emerging patterns of resource use and is intended to stimulate dialogue, both within the States, and nationally, about how to make more strategic investments in young children. Early...
    http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/library/index.cfm?do=oll.viewitem&itemid=34718 (100.00%)


  6. 2007 Kids Count Data Book
    By Annie E. Casey Foundation; 2007
    Description: This book presents statistical data and trends to illuminate the status of America’s children and to assess trends in their well-being for 2007. By updating the assessment every year, KIDS COUNT provides...
    http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/library/index.cfm?do=oll.viewitem&itemid=34671 (100.00%)


  7. State Early Childhood Policies: Highlights from the Improving the Odds for Young Children Project
    By Jane Knitzer, Helene Stebbins; June 2007
    Description: This report presents highlights from the Improving the Odds for Young Children project. Good health, positive early learning experiences, and nurturing families are all necessary to support positive early...
    http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/library/index.cfm?do=oll.viewitem&itemid=34668 (100.00%)


  8. Understanding the sociocultural roots of childhood obesity: Food practices among Latino families of Bushwick, Brooklyn
    By Adam Karpati, Leslie Kaufman; March 23, 2007
    Description: This study examines the sociocultural dimensions of childhood obesity and informs prevention efforts. Contains 38 references. STNY0299 Understanding Social Science and Medicine 64 2177-2188 2007 March...
    http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/library/index.cfm?do=oll.viewitem&itemid=34588 (100.00%)


  9. Child Care "Packaging" Among TANF Recipients: Implications for Social Work
    By Anu Rangarajan, Allison Zippay; April 2007
    Description: This article presents the results of a study that examined the ways in which current and recent recipients of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) assembled or “packaged” their child care arrangements...
    http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/library/index.cfm?do=oll.viewitem&itemid=34579 (100.00%)


  10. Welfare Receipt (AFDC/TANF)
    By Child Trends DataBank ; Summer 2007
    Description: This report indicates that from 1996-2004, the number of children receiving benefits from welfare declined by more than half. In most States, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) benefit levels...
    http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/library/index.cfm?do=oll.viewitem&itemid=34502 (100.00%)


  11. Assessing Initiatives for Family, Friend, and Neighbor Care
    By Toni Porter, Bank Street College of Education; March 2007
    Description: This report summarizes current models for supporting and enhancing family, friend, and neighbor child care and describes initial efforts to evaluate these initiatives. Contains 105 references. FCKC0074...
    http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/library/index.cfm?do=oll.viewitem&itemid=34459 (100.00%)


  12. Targeting Poverty: Aiming at a Bull's Eye
    By Center for Law and Social Policy; August 2006
    Description: This report indicates that political commitments to tackle poverty are emerging across the United States. Potential explanations for the re-emergence of poverty on political agendas include: (1) the poor...
    http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/library/index.cfm?do=oll.viewitem&itemid=33717 (100.00%)


  13. Ten Years after Welfare Reform, It's Time to Make Work Work For Families
    By Center for Law and Social Policy; August 17, 2006
    Description: This paper argues that the United States must develop more inclusive social and economic policies to help low-income individuals, families, and communities contribute to, and share in, the benefits of...
    http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/library/index.cfm?do=oll.viewitem&itemid=33628 (100.00%)


  14. NCCP's Early Childhood Agenda
    By National Center for Children in Poverty; 2005
    Description: This flyer by the National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) presents their early childhood agenda. NCCP conducts and synthesizes policy-relevant research to promote the health, well-being, and economic...
    http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/library/index.cfm?do=oll.viewitem&itemid=33490 (100.00%)


  15. Using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to Study Poverty and Welfare Dynamics
    By Peter Gottschalk, Patricia Ruggles; October 1994
    Description: This paper discusses the use of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) to study poverty and welfare dynamics. Contains 20 references. WRIM0085 Using 1994 October 1994 Panel Study of Income Dynamics,...
    http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/library/index.cfm?do=oll.viewitem&itemid=33370 (100.00%)


  16. Parent Employment and the Use of Child Care Subsidies
    By J. Lee Kreader, Sharmila Lawrence; June 2006
    Description: This brief summarizes the research on the association of child care subsidy use and parent employment outcomes. Child care subsidies reduce child care costs for low-income families and have two main goals:...
    http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/library/index.cfm?do=oll.viewitem&itemid=33358 (100.00%)


  17. Child Care and Early Education Research Connections
    By National Center for Children in Poverty; 2005
    Description: This brochure describes the work of Research Connections, a free resource for researchers and policy-makers that promotes high quality child care and early education. Contact information is included. REDS0198...
    http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/library/index.cfm?do=oll.viewitem&itemid=33222 (100.00%)


  18. Racial Disparities in School Readiness: An Analysis of Embedded Inequities
    By Annie E. Casey Foundation; June 2002
    Description: This document presents data concerning the racial disparities in school readiness. Parental circumstances such as limited incomes, erratic work schedules, and limited literacy factor into children’s early...
    http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/library/index.cfm?do=oll.viewitem&itemid=33220 (100.00%)


  19. The State of Poverty in Ohio 2005: Jobs Vanish and Incomes Plunge
    By Ohio Association of Community Action Agencies; 2005
    Description: This 2005 report describes the state of poverty in Ohio. The economy grew for eight consecutive years during the late 1990s. STOH0326 State 2005 2005
    http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/library/index.cfm?do=oll.viewitem&itemid=33215 (100.00%)


  20. Children in Urban Areas are Increasingly Low Income
    By National Center for Children in Poverty; November 2005
    Description: This report indicates that the majority (51 percent) of children in urban areas live in low-income families. However, most children (79 percent) in low-income, urban families have at least one parent who...
    http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/library/index.cfm?do=oll.viewitem&itemid=33055 (100.00%)


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