By an overwhelming margin, American voters oppose cutting food stamp assistance (the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP) as a way to reduce government ...
The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), which went to 27.5 million low- and moderate-income working families in 2010, provides work, income, educational, and health ...
Cash assistance benefits for the nation’s poorest families with children fell again in purchasing power in 2012 and are now at least 20 percent below their 1996 ...
The Roosevelt Institute | Campus Network is proud to announcethe release of the 2013 10 Ideas Series, our premier annual publication featuring over ...
This issue brief examines unemployment from a child's perspective, reporting that 6.2 million children lived in families with unemployed parents in 2012. Many of ...
ZERO TO THREE's policy brief, Building a Secure and Healthy Start: Family Leave in the Early Years, provides the latest data and new recommendations for ...
This overview of the federal program SNAP (formerly known as food stamps) reviews who is eligible for SNAP, how much the program costs the government, the ...
MDRC designs and studies solutions for issues across the policy spectrum – in education from preschool to postsecondary, in workforce development, and on issues ...
The Pew Home Visiting Campaign presents 12 studies highlighting gains in education, health and future livelihoods at less cost to taxpayers through home visiting.
In recent days, policymakers, pundits, and the media have debated whether the “fiscal cliff” budget deal was a victory or defeat for the President or ...
Nobel Prize winning economist James Heckman’s 2006 economic case for investing in children has a simple bottom line: “Invest early in children — and ...
As tax increases and spending cuts loom over the fiscal cliff, lawmakers are focusing less attention on another change scheduled for the end of 2012: the expiration ...
Looking for top-quality research and reports on issues relating to Opportunity Youth (those ages 16-24 not in school or working)? You'll definitely want to check ...
Nearly 6.5 million U.S. teens and young adults are neither in school nor in the workforce, veering toward chronic underemployment as adults and failing to gain the ...
This study from Public Agenda, a national, nonpartisan research and public engagement organization, suggests that high-poverty schools can succeed, in spite of ...
