Children
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| A Community Schools Approach to Accessing Services and Improving Neighborhood Outcomes in Manchester, New Hampshire In the several years since the Great Recession, New Hampshire, like the nation, has witnessed and experienced growing economic disadvantage. The state’s poverty level stands at 8.4 percent, and child poverty increased from about 8 percent in 2000 to… |
New Hampshire, Vulnerable Families Research Program | Children, Community, Education, New Hampshire |
| Gaps in Youth Opportunity by State Public discourse on economics in the United States, and around the world, often focuses on rising income and wealth inequality. The “Occupy” movement drew great attention to the rising fortunes of the top one percent while middle- and lower-income Americans lost… |
Vulnerable Families Research Program | Children, Education, Employment, Income, Poverty, Young Adults |
| New Population Projections Reflect Slower Growth and Increasing Diversity Two important demographic trends are reflected in newly released Census Bureau projections. The pace of U.S. population growth is slowing, and the population continues to become more diverse. These trends reflect distinctly different demographic trajectories among… |
Demography | Birth Rates, Children, Demography, Hispanics |
| Health Insurance Among Young Adults Rebounds Post Recession: More Become Dependents on a Parent's Plan After ACA Extends Coverage to Adult Children While much of the existing research explores young adults' insurance only in the post-recession period (that is, 2010 to present), authors Michael Staley and Jessica Carson assess young adults' rates of coverage within and beyond the context of the… |
Vulnerable Families Research Program | Children, Employment, Health, Health Insurance, Young Adults |
| Cause for Optimism? Child Poverty Declines for the First Time Since Before the Great Recession New data released on September 18, 2014, by the U.S. Census Bureau indicate that child poverty fell by 0.4 percentage point between 2012 and 2013, to 22.2 percent. Though still significantly higher than in 2007 when the Great Recession hit (18.0 percent), and higher… |
Vulnerable Families Research Program | Children, Poverty |
| Public Insurance Drove Overall Coverage Growth Among Children in 2012 Using data from the American Community Survey, this brief examines the rates of health insurance coverage among children under 18 in the United States by region and by rural, suburban, and central city residence between 2008 and 2012.
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Vulnerable Families Research Program | Children, Health Insurance |
| Proposed EITC Expansion Would Increase Eligibility and Dollars for Rural and Urban “Childless” Workers This brief uses data from the 2013 Annual Social and Economic Supplement to the Current Population Survey to examine how President Obama’s proposed expanded eligibility and higher credit values might affect tax filers in both rural and urban America.
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Vulnerable Families Research Program | Children, Employment, Rural, Safety Net, Tax, Urban |
| The Increasing Diversity of America's Youth This brief documents how unfolding demographic forces have placed today’s children and youth at the forefront of America’s new racial and ethnic diversity. Authors Kenneth M. Johnson, Andrew Schaefer, Daniel T. Lichter, and Luke T.
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Demography | Birth Rates, Children, Demography, Hispanics |
| Variation Found in Rates of Restraint and Seclusion Among Students With a Disability The restraint and seclusion of individuals—practices usually associated with highly restrictive environments—are extreme responses to student behavior used in some public schools. In this brief, authors Douglas Gagnon, Marybeth Mattingly, and Vincent Connelly report… |
Vulnerable Families Research Program | Children, Education, Health |
| New Hampshire Children in Need of Services: Impacts of 2011 Legislative Changes to CHINS Using administrative data from state and local agencies and data from interviews with CHINS professionals, this brief provides an overview of participation in the Children in Need of Services (CHINS) program before and after the change in the law in September 2011… |
Evaluation, New Hampshire | Children, Health, New Hampshire, Safety Net |
