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Factsheet: Estimates of Child Care Eligibility

Factsheet: Estimates of Child Care Eligibility and Receipt for Fiscal Year 2017

This factsheet provides descriptive information on child care eligibility and receipt.
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Low-Income Workers’ Eligibility for Emergency

Low-Income Workers’ Eligibility for Emergency Paid Family Leave

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, in March 2020 Congress enacted emergency paid family leave (Emergency Family and Medical Leave Expansion Act (EFMLEA)) for use by parents when their children are unable to attend school or child care due to the crisis. This brief estimates eligibility for the emergency paid family leave program under different
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Employment and Wages in the Child Care Industry:

Employment and Wages in the Child Care Industry: Insight from the Great Recession

The COVID-19 pandemic is forcing child care providers across the country to close. Between February and April 2020, employment in the child care industry dropped by about one third, losing 360,000 jobs. We do not yet know how this will affect the longer-term economic health of this sector. This has implications for the supply, quality, and price
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Are parents with a child support order more

Are parents with a child support order more likely to be eligible for both SNAP and subsidized child care?

This analysis builds on the ASPE publication on child support cooperation requirements to determine the overlap in the populations of custodial and noncustodial parents with and without formal child support orders, that are eligible for both Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and subsidized child care (CCDF).  The data used in the i
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How many families might be newly reached by child

How many families might be newly reached by child support cooperation requirements in SNAP and subsidized child care, and what are their characteristics?

States have flexibility to require a person that receives SNAP or subsidized child care to cooperate with the child support program.  This infographic introduces the child support cooperation policy variation across the states and then presents characteristic information about the custodial and noncustodial parents that may be subject to cooperat
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The Short- and Long-Term Impacts of Large Public

The Short- and Long-Term Impacts of Large Public Early Care and Education Programs

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The Early Achievement and Development Gap

The Early Achievement and Development Gap

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Estimates of Child Care Eligibility and Receipt

Estimates of Child Care Eligibility and Receipt for Fiscal Year 2006

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Analysis of Child Welfare Services Expenditure

Analysis of Child Welfare Services Expenditure Data and Child Day Care Expenditure Data: Phase II Report

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Usage of Different Kinds of Child Care: An

Usage of Different Kinds of Child Care: An Analysis of the SIPP Data Base

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Usage of Different Kinds of Child Care: An Analysis of the SIPP Data Base Lorelei R. Brush, Ph.D. Analysis, Research and Training October 14, 1987 PDF Version: http://aspe.hhs.gov/daltcp/reports/ccusage.pdf (45 PDF pages)
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An Evaluability Assessment of Child Care Options

An Evaluability Assessment of Child Care Options for Work-Welfare Programs

MAXIMUS, Inc. April 1988 This report was prepared under contract #HHS-100-85-0004 between HHS's Office of Social Services Policy (now the Office of Disability, Aging and Long-Term Care Policy) and MAXIMUS, Inc. For additional information about this subject, you can visit the ASPE home page at http://aspe.hhs.gov. The Project Officer was Sha
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Innovation in monitoring in early care and

Innovation in monitoring in early care and education: Options for states - An ASPE White Paper, in partnership with ACF

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Access to Child Care for Low-Income Working

Access to Child Care for Low-Income Working Families

Out of necessity or choice, mothers are working outside the home in greater numbers than ever before. In 1996, three out of four mothers with children between 6 and 17 were in the labor force, compared to one in four in 1965. Two-thirds of mothers with children under six now work. Reliable, high-quality child care is critical to these mothers' pro
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Child Care Subsidy Duration and Caseload Dynamics

Child Care Subsidy Duration and Caseload Dynamics: A Multi-State Examination

This report provides an examination of the length of time that low-income families receive government-funded child care subsidies that pay for part or all of the cost of their care arrangements. The figures presented are based on ASPE's analysis of a restricted-use version of child care subsidy administrative data from 35 states. In general, the d
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Trends in the Use of Early Care and Education,

Trends in the Use of Early Care and Education, 1995-2011: Descriptive Analysis of Child Care Arrangements from National Survey Data

The authors would like to acknowledge our Deputy Assistant Secretary for Human Services Policy, Ajay Chaudry, for his leadership and vision in the development of this report. The authors would also like to acknowledge Barbara Broman, Ann McCormick, Martha Moorehouse, and Pam Winston for their direction and reviews.
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In the Running for Successful Outcomes: Exploring

In the Running for Successful Outcomes: Exploring the evidence for Thresholds of School Readiness Technical Report

This study represents a multi-method approach to examining the evidence for thresholds in the association between children's school readiness and subsequent academic, social and emotional outcomes, both within and across domains. In addition to a literature review, multiple analytical methods were applied to two national data sets to examine these
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In the Running for Successful Outcomes: Project

In the Running for Successful Outcomes: Project Overview

This research brief summarizes a multi-method study examining the evidence for thresholds in association between children's school readiness and subsequent academic, social and emotional outcomes, both within and across domains. In addition to a literature review, multiple analytical methods were applied to two national data sets to examine these
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In the Running for Successful Outcomes:

In the Running for Successful Outcomes: Contemplating "Threshholds" for School Readiness

This research brief summarizes findings related to 'thresholds' of school readiness from a larger ASPE study on this topic called 'In the Running for Successful Outcomes.' The In the Running project's findings contribute to an emerging picture of school readiness skills and developmental trajectories. While no children appeared to be primed for ac
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In the Running for Successful Outcomes: Examining

In the Running for Successful Outcomes: Examining the Predictive Power of Children's School Readiness Skills

This research brief explores the relative strength of association between skills at school entry and later developmental outcomes both within and across domains of development. It highlights findings from a project aimed at providing an empirical exploration of differential prediction of outcomes in later elementary school from school entry skills
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Estimates of Child Care Eligibility and Receipt

Estimates of Child Care Eligibility and Receipt for Fiscal Year 2009

This ASPE Issue Brief details estimates of federal child care assistance eligibility and receipt for 2009. About 18 percent of federally-eligible children received subsidized care through CCDF or related government funding streams in an average month in fiscal year 2009. This Issue Brief also explores estimates of child care assistance eligibility

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