This is a presentation given by Child Trends at the Population Association of America meetings, which provides a framework for measuring the whole child in context. The presentation offers suggestions for expansion of federal data collection,…

The Institute for Education Sciences within the U.S. Department of Education issued this report, which discusses the prevalence of high-performing teachers in ten districts across seven states. The data show that, on average, low-income students…

Work supports such as the Earned Income Tax Credit, child care subsidies, and public health insurance can often help low-income working families reach self-sufficiency. Using the National Center for Children in Poverty’s Family Resource Simulator…

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released new data that revealed 12.4 percent of families included an unemployed person in 2010, up from 12.0 percent in 2009, which is at its highest level since the data began being collected in 1994. These…

As part of the Enhanced Services for the Hard-to-Employ Demonstration and Evaluation Project, the Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation published this report on the Enhanced Early Head Start (…

From the Bureau of Labor Statistics, this profile provides information on the working poor in 2009. Around 14.3 percent of the population, 43.6 million people, in the United States was living at or below the federal poverty level. Around 10.4…

From MDRC, this report discusses the implementation of an enhanced version of the Early Head Start (EHS) program. Authors provide an overview of challenges to implementation as well as short-term outcomes of the program on children and parents.…

The National Skills Coalition authored this report as part of the Skills2Compete campaign, which focuses on identifying gaps in the skills of the workforce and the state’s training and education policies. In particular, middle skills jobs account…