Family
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| U.S. Births Hit a 43-Year Low In this data snapshot, Carsey's Senior Demographer Kenneth Johnson reports that there were only 3,591,000 births in the United States in 2023, according to new data from National Center for Health Statistics.
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Demography | Birth Rates, Demography, Family, Fertility, Women |
| More U.S. Women of Childbearing Age, but Fewer Have Given Birth In this brief, Senior Demographer Kenneth Johnson reports that, in 2022, there were 4.7 million more childless women of prime child-bearing age in the United States than would have been expected given fertility patterns prior to the Great Recession, up from 2.1… |
Demography | Birth Rates, Demography, Family, Fertility, Women |
| New Englanders’ Use of Child Care Varies by Income, Even Among Working Households In this data snapshot, author Jess Carson reports that data from the U.S. Census Bureau collected between January and May 2023 show that access to child care remains uneven.
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Center for Social Policy in Practice | Child Care, Children, Family, New England |
| New England Households Rely on a Mix of Child Care Arrangements In this data snapshot, author Jess Carson reports that data collected by the U.S. Census Bureau between January and May 2023 show that 70 percent of New England households with a child under five use child care, and more than one-third of those rely on multiple… |
Center for Social Policy in Practice | Child Care, Children, Family, New England |
| Retaining Residents Is Important to New Hampshire’s Future In this brief, authors Kristine Bundschuh and Kenneth Johnson discuss the results of NH Granite State Polls conducted from 2010–2012 and 2018–2019 that asked a representative sample of over 3,300 established residents to share, in their own words, their top three… |
Demography, New Hampshire | Demography, Economy, Employment, Family, Migration, New Hampshire |
| New Hampshire Parents Use Child Care but Seek More Options In this brief, authors Jess Carson and Sarah Boege describe child care 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 |
| 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 |
