Children
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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 |
| Growing Racial Diversity in Rural America: Results from the 2020 Census In this brief, authors Kenneth Johnson and Daniel Lichter report that although population declines were widespread between 2010 and 2020, rural America became more racially and ethnically diverse.
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Demography | African Americans, Children, Demography, Hispanics, Race, Rural, Urban |
| 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 |
| New Census Reflects Growing U.S. Population Diversity, with Children in the Forefront The U.S. population grew by a modest 7.4 percent during the past decade to 331.4 million in April 2020. There was a significant increase in racial diversity over the course of the decade, both in the population as a whole, and children in particular.
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Demography | African Americans, Children, Demography, Hispanics, Race |
| Modest Population Gains, but Growing Diversity in New Hampshire with Children in the Vanguard In this brief, author Kenneth Johnson reports that New Hampshire’s population grew by a modest 4.6 percent during the past decade to 1,377,500 in April 2020. In contrast, the number of minority residents, defined as those who were other than non-Hispanic Whites,… |
Demography, New Hampshire | Children, Demography, Hispanics, New Hampshire, Race |
| “BackPack” Food Programs Linked to Higher Test Scores for School Children In this brief, authors Michael Kurtz, Karen Conway, and Robert Mohr summarize their recently published article at the Economics of Education Review, which aimed to understand how BackPack Programs relate to academic success.
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Children, Education, Food Assistance, Low Income | |
| 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 |
