As Congress debates spending priorities and deficit reduction measures, it must protect programs for low-income families and individuals and ensure that ...
In the August 19, 2012 NY Times Magazine, author Paul Tough frames the issue of poverty in America through the lens of Youth Advocate Programs, Inc. (YAP) ...
The Young Scholars Program is a competitive program that annually selects up to four early career researchers (tenure-track or tenured in the last four years) to ...
This analysis from Shawn Fremstad looks at the differences between the child and elderly poverty rates according to the current official and the new supplemental ...
In testimony before the Senate Finance Committee, Ron Haskins of the Brookings Institution examines the major causes of poverty, trends in spending to help poor and ...
The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) is teaming up with four national foundations to combat family homelessness. Families comprise the ...
The challenges facing communities today seem almost overwhelming – and are too big for any single organization to solve; too big even for the non-profit sector ...
The Annie E. Casey Foundation’s latest KIDS COUNT Data Book shows both promising progress and discouraging setbacks for the nation’s children: While their ...
Kids' Share 2011: Report on Federal Expenditures on Children through 2010, a fifth annual report, looks comprehensively at trends over the past 50 years ...
The infant mortality rate, the preterm birth rate, and the adolescent birth rate all continued to decline, average mathematics scores increased for 4th and 8th ...
Some 27 million working adults with low and moderate incomes, most of whom are raising children, received the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) in 2009 to reduce their ...
So-called “place-based strategies” have been gaining attention for their cross-cutting approaches to delivering housing, education and health care in a ...
The quantitative examination of neighborhood quality of life has traditionally focused on individual indicators and their level of occurrence, such as number of ...
The Walmart Foundation has numerous state giving programs inEducation, Workforce Development / Economic Opportunity, Health and Wellness, and Environmental ...
In this policy report, the Annie E. Casey Foundation Foundation explores the increased number of children living with extended family and close friends, a longtime ...
While most states posted modest gains over the past 12 months, Rhode Island, Wisconsin and New Hampshire were among seven states that lost jobs. Check out this ...
Instead of helping the long-term unemployed in the United States weather the storm and find ways to re-enter the workforce, our nation is moving in the opposite ...
