Income
| Publication | Category | Topic |
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| Data Snapshot: Poorer Working Families With Young Children Are Unlikely to Afford Child Care Low-income families with working parents face significant burdens paying for child care, which can function as a barrier to work and often means parents must rely on child care arrangements that are less formal and less stable.1 Amid national concerns about the high… |
Vulnerable Families Research Program | Child Care, Family, Income |
| Carsey Perspectives: Innovative Financing for Community Businesses Business owners seeking to start or expand a small business have limited options for financing. They can go to a bank for a loan, but they may have trouble qualifying for the loan due to the age of the business, absence of collateral, lack of equity in the business,… |
Center for Impact Finance | Community Development Finance, Income |
| A Profile of Youth Poverty and Opportunity in Southwestern Minnesota Like many rural communities across the United States, Southwestern Minnesota (hereafter SW Minnesota; see Box 1) has an aging population, evidenced by a growing share of seniors and a declining share of children and young adults, particularly among the non-Hispanic… |
Vulnerable Families Research Program | Education, Income, Poverty |
| 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 |
| Families Continue to Rely on Wives As Breadwinners Post-Recession This brief presents an analysis of the increased role employed wives played in family economic stability prior to, during, and after the Great Recession, focusing on changes in the contribution of employed wives’ earnings to family earnings by state, region,… |
Vulnerable Families Research Program | Employment, Family, Income |
| Walking Builds Community Cohesion: Survey of Two New Hampshire Communities Looks at Social Capital and Walkability This brief reports the results of a survey conducted in 2009 of approximately 2,000 households in Portsmouth and Manchester, New Hampshire, to examine the connection between walkability and social capital.
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New Hampshire | Community, Income, New Hampshire |
| Recessions Accelerate Trend of Wives as Breadwinners This brief, Recessions Accelerate Trend of Wives as Breadwinners, investigates the increased role employed wives played in family economic stability prior to, during, and in the two years after the Great Recession, and makes comparisons to the 1990-1991 and 2001… |
Vulnerable Families Research Program | Employment, Family, Gender, Income |
| Underemployment in Urban and Rural America, 2005-2012 Author Justin Young reports that underemployment (or involuntary part-time work) rates doubled during the second year of the recession, reaching roughly 6.5 percent in 2009. This increase was equally steep in both rural and urban places. By March of 2012,… |
Vulnerable Families Research Program | Employment, Income, Rural, Urban |
| Who Cares for the Sick Kids? Parents’ Access to Paid Time to Care for a Sick Child This brief analyzes employed parents’ access to five or more paid sick days annually to care for a sick child in 2008.
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Vulnerable Families Research Program | Children, Family, Health, Income, Wages |
| New England Has the Highest Increase in Income Disparity in the Nation Income inequality in New England is rising at the highest rate in the nation, this brief finds. Between 1989 and 2004, the region experienced the largest increase in income inequality in the country, due to both growth among top earners and the hollowing out of the… |
New Hampshire, Vulnerable Families Research Program | Income, Inequality, New England |
