This newsletter from the Family and Youth Services Board (FYSB), reviews strategies for combining education and employment to help support families and youth on the transition to adulthood. Specifically, the FYSB runaway and homeless youth…

This policy brief explores the position of women in the labor force over the past 25 years. Across all labor categories, the number of women in the workforce has increased, and the male/female wage gap has narrowed. Less-skilled women currently…

The Department of Education published this report on the concentration of enrollment in free school lunch programs by race and ethnicity. Among the findings, researchers found that 41 percent of 4th graders were eligible for the program in 2005,…

From the National Alliance to End Homelessness, this article reveals that when asked, many Americans underestimate the problem of homelessness in the U.S. This piece reviews best practices on strategies to reduce family homeless from Washington,…

In 2002, 2.3 million youth were arrested for committing crimes. Specifically, low-income urban neighborhoods experience higher rates of juvenile delinquency. These high-risk youth experiences problems in school, in the workforce, and developing…

Through MDRC's Opening Doors Demonstration and funded by state TANF dollars, New Orleans offers programs at two community colleges to offer scholarships for low-income parents. This article reviews early findings from the program and the positive…

This issue brief from the Chapin Hall Center for Children at the University of Chicago and the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison reviews a study of 1,075 TANF applicants in Milwaukee County agencies between…

This article, from the Urban Institute, evaluates trends in child poverty across the country in the past ten years. Child poverty rates experienced a sharp decline from 1993 to 2000, but increased from 2000 to 2004. The trends show that the State…

This research project, an intensive study in Boston, Chicago, and San Antonio, assesses the well-being of low-income children and families in the post-welfare reform era. The project examines strategies families have…

Research from the National Center for Children in Poverty recently found that more than two out of every five children live in low-income families in the State of New York. Additionally, the income gap between the wealthiest families and the…