Child Care
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| Supportive Program Strengths and Gaps for New Hampshire Families In this brief, authors Sarah Boege and Jess Carson describe child and family program use and gaps among respondents to the 2022 New Hampshire Preschool Development Grant Family Needs Assessment Survey.
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Center for Social Policy in Practice, New Hampshire | Child Care, Children, Education, Family, Food Assistance, New Hampshire, Poverty, Public Opinion, Safety Net |
| Changing Child Care Supply in New Hampshire and Vermont’s Upper Valley In this brief, authors Jess Carson and Sarah Boege describe changes in the early childhood education and care landscape of Grafton and Sullivan Counties in New Hampshire and Orange and Windsor Counties in Vermont, collectively known as the Upper Valley.
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Center for Social Policy in Practice, New Hampshire | Child Care, Children, Family, New England, New Hampshire |
| Child Care Investments and Policies in the Upper Valley, in the Pandemic and Beyond In this brief, the authors illustrate New Hampshire and Vermont’s different responses to supporting the early childhood education and care sector during the COVID-19 pandemic and examine the limited publicly available data on pandemic relief funds through the lens of… |
Center for Social Policy in Practice, New Hampshire | Child Care, Children, COVID-19, Education, Family, New England, New Hampshire, Safety Net |
| Why Interstate Child Care Scholarship Policy Choices Matter in the Upper Valley In this brief, the authors explore how state-level decisions in New Hampshire and Vermont manifest in the early childhood education and care sector, through the lens of the interstate Upper Valley region.
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Center for Social Policy in Practice, New Hampshire | Child Care, Children, Education, Family, New England, New Hampshire |
| Childcare Remains Out of Reach for Millions in 2021, Leading to Disproportionate Job Losses for Black, Hispanic, and Low-Income Families Using data from the late summer through the fall of 2021, this brief documents recent racial and income disparities in reports of inadequate access to childcare and identifies the employment-related consequences of these shortages.
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Center for Social Policy in Practice | African Americans, Child Care, Children, COVID-19, Employment, Family, Hispanics, Low Income, Race, Unemployment |
| Kidogo: Addressing the Childcare Needs of Low-Income Families in East Africa To unlock the potential of this region’s millions of children, Kidogo, an innovative East African social enterprise, is harnessing the power of social sector franchising. Kidogo partners with women running informal daycares in Kenya’s urban slums to better the… |
Changemaker Collaborative | Child Care, Children, Education, Income, Low Income, Poverty, Women |
| COVID-19 Didn’t Create a Child Care Crisis, But Hastened and Inflamed It In this new Carsey Perspective, authors Jess Carson and Marybeth Mattingly describe the ways that the COVID-19 pandemic has strained the nation’s already-fragile early childhood care systems. Child care providers are struggling to address revenue losses associated… |
Center for Social Policy in Practice, COVID-19 | Child Care, Children, COVID-19, Family, Unemployment |
| The Poverty-Reducing Effects of the EITC and Other Safety Nets for Young Adult Parents In this brief, Jess Carson explores the poverty-reducing effects of key federal safety net programs among 18-24 year old (“young adult”) parents.
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Center for Social Policy in Practice, COVID-19 | Child Care, Children, COVID-19, Family, Food Assistance, Low Income, Safety Net, Young Adults |
| For One in Four Very Young, Low-Income Children, Parents Are Young Too This brief maps the distribution of children living with young adult parents, describes their parents’ characteristics, and details ways to strengthen policy supports that can fortify their families’ ability to succeed.
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Vulnerable Families Research Program | Child Care, Children, Family, Young Adults |
| Working Families’ Access to Early Childhood Education Although the Upper Valley has more than 200 licensed child care providers, the corresponding number of licensed slots is about 2,000 short of the estimated number of young children who likely need early care and education. Early childhood is a critical developmental… |
Vulnerable Families Research Program | Child Care, Employment, Family |
