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A Family's Guide to the Child Welfare System
Description: The Child Welfare League of America and several other organizations developed A Family's Guide to the Child Welfare System, a comprehensive resource that answers many of the questions families face when they become involved with the child welfare system. The guide also is useful for child- and family-serving agencies, family support organizations, new social workers and students.
Corporate Voices for Working Families
Description: Corporate Voices for Working Families is a non-partisan, non-profit corporate membership organization created to bring the private sector voice into the public dialogue on issues affecting working families. Provides links to afterschool programming, employer-based child care and incentives for employees to volunteer in their communities.
Description: Families and Work Institute is a nonprofit center dedicated to providing research for living in today’s changing workplace, changing family and changing community. The Institute's work focuses on: the workforce and workplace; education, care and community; parenting; and youth development.
Description: Living Well provides links to resources throughout the land-grant university system. Includes a link to "Find Cooperative Extension in your state" and research-based information on a host of topics including: food, nutrition, healthy lifestyles, house, home, food safety, raising children, family finances, and balancing family and work.
Managing Conflict in Family Business 
Description: The “Managing Conflict in Family Businesses” webinar covers issues that can arise in managing the conflicts of a family-run business.
Description: This site provides information for military spouses in an effort to promote self-sufficiency and satisfaction with the military family lifestyle and an improved standard of living for military families.
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Adjusting to Work: Getting Along with Others (PDF)
Author: DeBord, Karen (61 more by this author); Rebekah F. Canu
Description: Fact sheet for parents making the transition from welfare to work, on how to get along with others at work and be successful in returning to work.
Author: Mietlicki, Shirley (3 more by this author)
Description: This resource provides an overview of the importance of setting goals in balancing family and work and methods for managing time and households.
Balancing Work and Caregiving: A Guide for Employers
Author: Wilken, Carolyn (9 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet is aimed at businesses and what employers can do to assist/support family caregivers.
Balancing Work and Caregiving: Tips for Employees
Author: Wilken, Carolyn (9 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet provides tips for caregivers who are trying to balance their work lives with caregiving.
Balancing Work, Family and Caregiving
Author: Cyr, Louise (4 more by this author)
Description: This 3 page fact sheet provides information on being a caregiver for an elder while being employed. It includes tips for balancing time and coping with multigenerational households.
Bouncing Back When Your Income Drops: 1. Making Sense of My Losses
Description: This fact sheet discusses unemployment and how to cope with family issues during this period of time.
Description: With Census QuickFacts you can, by state, access information on medium household income, persons below the poverty level, economic characteristics, and more.
Childcare in the United States: Yesterday and Today
Author: Boschee, Marlys (1 more by this author); Geralyn M. Jacobs, Ed.D.
Description: This report provides an overview of changes in child care, focusing on the changing role of mothers as more and more women become single parents and join the work force.
Como Lograr Un Balance Entre Tu Trabajo Y Los Deberes Familiares?
Author: Mietlicki, Shirley (3 more by this author)
Description: La importancia de tener objetivos que logren un ba-lance entre tu trabajo y los deberes familiares. Metodos para administrar mejor tu tiempo y tu hogar estableciendo objetivos y planificando.
Coping with Death, Grief, and Loss
Description: This fact sheet from the University of Iowa University Counseling Service describes what grief is and common reactions to grief. Include recommended readings.
Author: DeBord, Karen (61 more by this author); Rebekah F. Canu
Description: Fact sheet on decision making for parents making the transition from welfare to work.
Easing Transitions: Balancing Work & Family
Author: DeBord, Karen (61 more by this author); Rebekah F. Canu
Description: Ways to avoid not having time, having too much to get done, and the stress of your life are covered in this fact sheet. Other topics include organizing your time, budgeting your money, and getting along with family and friends.
Easing Transitions: Balancing Work & Family (PDF)
Author: DeBord, Karen (61 more by this author)
Description: Fact sheet and tips on balancing work and family for parents making the transition from welfare to work.
Description: Families and Work Institute is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization that studies the changing workforce, the changing workplace, the changing family and the changing community.
Description: Families and Work Institute (FWI) is a non-profit center for research that provides data to inform decision-making on the changing workplace, changing family and changing community. Founded in 1989, FWI’s research typically takes on emerging issues before they crest. Our work often changes the language of debates to move the discussion forward. And many FWI research projects are noted for their innovative designs as well as for their far-reaching impact and results.
Financial Security: Money Management in Tough Times
Description: More Americans feel additional stress and anxiety about their financial future as talk of rising consumer debt, falling housing prices, rising costs of living, and declining retail sales bring up worries about the nation’s economic health. This eXtension website links to articles on 18 topics from coping with stress, making extra money, and doing things together as a family for less.
Getting to Know You, Your Co-spender, and Money
Author: Hudson, Nancy
Description: "Families who effectively discuss money matters can avoid many financial problems. Good communication about money begins with understanding each others values..."
Immigrants and TANF: A Look at Immigrant Welfare Recipients in Three Cities
Author: Tumlin, Karen; Wendy Zimmerman
Description: Key findings, based on case studies of New York, Los Angeles, and Houston, show that: immigrants and limited English speakers make up a significant share of those on welfare; many have significant barriers to work including less education and work history than natives; and immigrants on welfare are less likely to be working and more likely to be working in dead-end jobs. Job training programs often have English language requirements, limiting immigrants' access. The authors conclude that combining part-time work and language training can help immigrant welfare recipients move into jobs and off the welfare rolls.
Author: Hill, Melinda (8 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet provides suggestions for ways to nurture relationships when separated.
Learning to Live Through Loss: When Job Loss Triggers Grief
Author: Wilken, Carolyn (9 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet focuses on helping people understand and cope with losing their jobs.
Making the Most of Your "Home Time"
Author: Hill, Melinda (8 more by this author)
Description: A publication on finding enough and the right times to spend with each other as a family. Then making the most of it.
Managing Workplace Grief--Vision and Necessity
Description: This is a managerial/human resource discussion of the issue of coping with workplace grief as a health issue.
More Poor Kids in More Poor Places: Children Increasingly Live Where Poverty Persists
Description: The authors of this brief examine child poverty rates using decennial census data from 1980, 1990, and 2000, as well as American Community Survey five-year estimates between 2005 and 2009, to identify those counties where child poverty has persisted. They find persistent child poverty in nearly twice as many U.S. counties as those that report high persistent poverty across all age groups. The authors comment that the overwhelming urban focus of welfare programs means policymakers often overlook needy families in rural areas. In addition to the high unemployment and low education levels that they document in the brief, the physical and social isolation associated with rural poverty create problems different from those in densely settled urban areas.
Padres que trabajan: Combinando el trabajo y la familia
Description: It is important to balance your many roles: parent, spouse and worker.
Parenting Skills for the Busy Parent of Preschoolers (PDF)
Author: DeBord, Karen (61 more by this author)
Description: Fact sheet providing tips for parents of young children who are returning to work.
Personal Wellness for Top Peak Performance
Author: DeBord, Karen (61 more by this author); Robin Baker Howse; Rebekah F. Canu
Description: Fact sheet and tips on maintaining good nutrition and health for parents making the transition from welfare to work. Suggestions include eating right, exercise, stress reduction, and getting enough rest.
The More Things Change? Children's Living Arrangements since Welfare Reform
Author: Acs, Gregory (1 more by this author); Sandi Nelson
Description: The share of children five and under living with single parents declined from 21.0 percent in 1997 to 17.3 percent in 2003. The share of young children living with married parents increased by 2.5 percentage points between 1997 and 2002. The share living with unmarried parents increased by 1.2 percentage points.
Tickle Your Stress Before It Tackles You
Author: Recker, Nancy (5 more by this author)
Description: "There is a major difference between stressors - those things that happen every day that have the potential for driving us crazy, or making us angry, frustrated, and hurt - and stress, the way we choose to respond to these stressors. You make a choice about how situations will affect the rest of your day. Why not make humorous choices and practice them every day?"
Women, Work, and Family Health: A Balancing Act
Description: This research brief examines women's roles in family health care decision-making and coordination, the effect of that involvement for women who work, and women's caregiving responsibilities. The research is based on data from the 2001 Kaiser Women's Health Survey, a nationally representative sample of nearly 4,000 women between the ages of 18 and 64.
Working Families: Balancing Work and Family
Description: It is important to balance your many roles: parent, spouse and worker.
Description: This website is devoted to the busy working mother. Some featured categories are family, career, art of juggling, single moms, dad's voice, news, recipes, bookshelf and the sports mom.
Working Parents: Finding the Balance
Author: Longo, Mary (4 more by this author)
Description: This is a fact sheet on how to equally balance the work that needs to be done both at the office and at home.
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Description: This website provides articles and activities relating to the financial crisis.
Work-Plus: Boosting the Bottom Line for Low-Wage Working Parents
Description: This policy brief address "work-plus". To reduce dependency on welfare, community-based organizations (CBOs) and policymakers are exploring how to both lift low wage working families out of poverty and improve business competitiveness. The authors say that "work-plus" represents a promising strategy to achieve both of these goals.
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A Brief Guide to TANF Reauthorization Issues In 2005
Description: Congress has been debating reauthorization of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program and changes to related programs including child care and child support since 2002. This guide from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities compares different versions of reauthorization legislation passed earlier this year by the Senate Finance Committee and the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Human Resources.
A Guide to Transitional Child Care
Description: Transitional Child Care (TCC) provides money to help working parents pay for child care. This program is an important part of the Jobs FIRST strategy to provide services that will help people find and keep jobs.
A Model for Comprehensive Family Assessments
Description: Ramsey County (MN) Community Human Services Department (RCCHSD), funded through a 2007 Children's Bureau grant, is implementing a comprehensive family assessment (CFA) program to develop a more consistent, holistic, family-centered, and culturally responsive approach to in-home and out-of-home child welfare assessment.
A Profile of the Low-Wage Immigrant Workforce
Description: This study examines the size of the low-wage immigrant labor force, as well as the educational attainment, English language ability, legal status, and gender of low-wage immigrant workers.
Adjusting to Work: Getting Along with Others (PDF)
Author: DeBord, Karen (61 more by this author); Rebekah F. Canu
Description: Fact sheet for parents making the transition from welfare to work, on how to get along with others at work and be successful in returning to work.
America's Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, 2011
Description: America's Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, 2011 is a compendium of indicators depicting our Nation's young people. The report, the 15th in an ongoing series, presents 41 key indicators on important aspects of children's lives. These indicators are drawn from our most reliable statistics, are easily understood by broad audiences. This report compiles the most recent national figures about the 75 million youth between ages zero and 17 in the U.S in seven different domains: family and social environment, economic circumstances, health care, physical environment and safety, behavior, education and health.
Balancing Work and Caregiving: A Guide for Employers
Author: Wilken, Carolyn (9 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet is aimed at businesses and what employers can do to assist/support family caregivers.
Balancing Work and Caregiving: Tips for Employees
Author: Wilken, Carolyn (9 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet provides tips for caregivers who are trying to balance their work lives with caregiving.
Balancing Work and Family: Avoid the Morning Rush
Author: Molgaard, Virginia (19 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet suggests ways to avoid stress in the morning when getting ready for work and school.
Building Opportunities: Dressing for Success
Author: Saiki, Diana
Description: The "business casual" dress trend has led to confusion about what is appropriate to wear to work. Appropriate workplace dress is an important component of career success. Information about workplace dress is not always available to low-income groups. The program "Building Opportunities: Dressing for Success" was developed by university faculty in a small town to teach low-income groups about appropriate workplace dress. The program was conducted in collaboration with WorkOne, an employment service for low-income groups.
Description: With Census QuickFacts you can, by state, access information on medium household income, persons below the poverty level, economic characteristics, and more.
Child Care for Low Income Families: Summary of Two Workshops
Author: Phillips, Deborah (1 more by this author)
Description: This web site contains a report about a workshop conducted about low-income families and their difficulty in paying for child care. Also discussed are the government and employer roles, and quality standards. It allows you to read the book online for no cost.
Childcare in the United States: Yesterday and Today
Author: Boschee, Marlys (1 more by this author); Geralyn M. Jacobs, Ed.D.
Description: This report provides an overview of changes in child care, focusing on the changing role of mothers as more and more women become single parents and join the work force.
Choosing Care for Your Children: Child Care Centers and Preschools
Author: Smith, Charles (28 more by this author)
Description: The series is designed to help parents become better-informed consumers of child care options. It includes information to consider when choosing child care.
Choosing Care for Your Children: Child Care Homes
Author: Smith, Charles (28 more by this author)
Description: The series is designed to help parents become better-informed consumers of child care options. It includes information to consider when choosing child care in a child care home.
Author: DeBord, Karen (61 more by this author); Rebekah F. Canu
Description: Fact sheet on decision making for parents making the transition from welfare to work.
Early Childhood State Profiles
Description: The National Center for Children in Poverty's Improving the Odds for Young Children project just released their latest Early Childhood State Profiles, which offer a comprehensive view of state policies in the areas of health, early care and education, and parenting and economic supports, that affect the health and well-being of young children in low-income families.
Easing Transitions: Balancing Work & Family
Author: DeBord, Karen (61 more by this author); Rebekah F. Canu
Description: Ways to avoid not having time, having too much to get done, and the stress of your life are covered in this fact sheet. Other topics include organizing your time, budgeting your money, and getting along with family and friends.
Easing Transitions: Balancing Work & Family (PDF)
Author: DeBord, Karen (61 more by this author)
Description: Fact sheet and tips on balancing work and family for parents making the transition from welfare to work.
ECONOMIC SUCCESS CLEARINGHOUSE
Description: This website provides a comprehensive clearinghouse for information, policy analysis and technical assistance on welfare reform and issues related to welfare.
Employed Parenthood: Do I Have a Choice?
Author: Sprain, Joan (2 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet provides guidance for families who are considering having both parents in the workforce. The author provides questions to help guide parents as the discuss the best option for the family.
Description: Family Time Work Time is a publication of the Better Kid Care Program. Publications are aimed at both parents and those who care for children. The publications are available to view and print, and most are available in both English and Spanish.
Author: Hans, Carol
Description: This publication describes how important it is to have a healthy, economical meal in today's fast moving world. This webpage includes a nutrition quiz, how to eat smart when you don't have time to eat at home, some time saving strategies and a few ideas for lunches to go.
Individual Development Accounts: A Tool for Achieving Family Economic Success
Description: One of the most promising approaches for asset building, Individual Development
Accounts (IDAs), operates from the premise that low-income families can save and accumulate financial assets if the proper supports are in place. This brief looks at the latest research on IDAs and how owning assets gives people a stake in society and a sense of connectedness to their communities.
Job Turnover, Wage Rates, and Marital Stability: How Are They Related?
Description: This study reveals evidence that job instability lowers wages and the likelihood of getting and remaining married, while marriage raises wages and job stability.
Learning to Live Through Loss: When Job Loss Triggers Grief
Author: Wilken, Carolyn (9 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet focuses on helping people understand and cope with losing their jobs.
Description: This brief provides an analysis of benefit and service use among families of immigrant workers with children. Using data from the 2002 National Survey of America's Families, the authors examine safety net programs, including the earned income tax credit, cash welfare, food stamps, housing assistance, health insurance coverage, and child care.
Managing in Tough Times National Extension Initiative (MiTT)
Description: The Managing in Tough Times resource directory, MiTTNet, is a fully searchable website with resources and educational materials aimed at individuals and families, farms and ranches, communities, and youth cope with economic crises and hardships.
Author: Shaklee, Harriet (1 more by this author)
Description: Navigating Work and Family was developed to support working families in the decisions they face about family life. The series of 10 handouts can be a useful resource for schools, social service and counseling centers, parent information centers, early childhood centers, and work settings.
Parenting Skills for the Busy Parent of Preschoolers
Author: DeBord, Karen (61 more by this author); Robin Baker Howse; Rebekah F. Canu
Description: This article discusses how the transition to a new job can be easier for you and your children.
Parenting Skills for the Busy Parent of Preschoolers (PDF)
Author: DeBord, Karen (61 more by this author)
Description: Fact sheet providing tips for parents of young children who are returning to work.
Personal Wellness for Top Peak Performance
Author: DeBord, Karen (61 more by this author); Robin Baker Howse; Rebekah F. Canu
Description: Fact sheet and tips on maintaining good nutrition and health for parents making the transition from welfare to work. Suggestions include eating right, exercise, stress reduction, and getting enough rest.
Roles and Responsibilities: Who Does Them When You Are Gone?
Author: Hill, Melinda (8 more by this author)
Description: The stay-at-home partner assumes new roles and responsibilities when the other partner is gone for a day, a week, a month, or longer. The effect of the change on the family depends greatly upon the family's coping system. This fact sheet discusses the personal resources or traits within individuals or family members that can assist them in managing the daily stressors caused by separation.
RURAL AMERICA AT A GLANCE, 2008 EDITION
Description: Rural America At A Glance, 2008 Edition highlights the most recent indicators of social and economic conditions in rural areas for use in developing policies and programs to assist rural areas. The 2008 edition focuses on employment, poverty, population change, and demographic characteristics of nonmetro areas.
Surviving Tough Times: How You Can Help When Mom or Dad is Unemployed
Author: Bland, Judy (2 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet provides tips that family members can use when mothers or fathers lose their jobs or are out of work.
Surviving Tough Times: Identifying Sources of Support and Friendship
Author: Bland, Judy (2 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet provides tips and suggestions on the importance of having a support network during major life stresses, such as the loss of a job, divorce or death in the family.
Surviving Tough Times: SUSTAINING FAMILY AND HOME
Author: Bland, Judy (2 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet provides tips and suggestions on what families faced with job loss can do to maintain their home.
Telling the Kids You Lost Your Job Podcast
Description: This is a podcast on how to tell your children that you lost your job.
Telling the Kids: We Need to Spend Less!
Description: This is a fact sheet on how to explain to children that you need to spend less money.
The Working Family Resource Center
Description: The Working Family Resource Center (WFRC) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization delivering work-life wellness and family education to educate, strengthen and affirm working families while also improving workplace productivity and engagement.
Trabajo y familia de la navegación
Author: Shaklee, Harriet (1 more by this author)
Description: Desarrollaron el trabajo y a la familia de la navegación para apoyar a familias de trabajo en las decisiones que hacen frente sobre vida de familia. La serie de 10 folletos puede ser un recurso útil para las escuelas, servicio social y los ajustes los centros del asesoramiento, los centros de información del padre, los centros tempranos de la niñez, y del trabajo.
Understanding the Needs of Your Business Partners
Description: Corporate Voices for Working Families: Business leaders are an important partner in the community and should be actively engaged when working to ensure that youth are ready for college, work and life.
What Does the Safety Net Accomplish?
Description: This series of reports examines the research on the impacts and accomplishments of government programs that assist low-income families and individuals. Each report includes state-by-state data on the number of the people assisted by the program.
When You Take Care of Mom and Hold Down a Job
Description: This is a fact sheet on taking care of a parent while holding down your job.
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A Brief Guide to TANF Reauthorization Issues In 2005
Description: Congress has been debating reauthorization of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program and changes to related programs including child care and child support since 2002. This guide from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities compares different versions of reauthorization legislation passed earlier this year by the Senate Finance Committee and the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Human Resources.
A Profile of Low-Income Working Immigrant Families
Description: This article provides information on the challenges immigrant families face in the American workforce.
A Profile of the Low-Wage Immigrant Workforce
Description: This study examines the size of the low-wage immigrant labor force, as well as the educational attainment, English language ability, legal status, and gender of low-wage immigrant workers.
Census Reports More Children Living in Poverty: Implications for Well-being
Description: This research update reports the numbers of children living in poverty between 2008 and 2009 as well as their well-being.
Child Care for Low Income Families: Summary of Two Workshops
Author: Phillips, Deborah (1 more by this author)
Description: This web site contains a report about a workshop conducted about low-income families and their difficulty in paying for child care. Also discussed are the government and employer roles, and quality standards. It allows you to read the book online for no cost.
Child Care use by Low-income Families: Variations across states
Description: This research brief provides new estimates to show the variation across the 50 states in the use of nonparental child care, the types of child care used, and parents’ experiences with child care problems that interfere with their work schedules. The brief concludes with a discussion of possible reasons for these patterns across states.
Description: This research brief draws on results from Census 2000 data examining differences in the poverty rates between children in immigrant families and children in native-born families. The brief reports results for the official poverty measure, but also for two alternatives to the official measure.
Children in Poverty: Trends, Consequences, and policy options
Description: This research brief draws on Census data for 2007 to present a statistical portrait of children in poverty in the United States, updating similar briefs Child Trends produced in 1999 and 2002. The brief highlights research on the consequences of poverty for children and suggests program and policy approaches that hold promise for decreasing poverty among low-income children and their families.
Description: This research summary identifies low income and low maternal education as the factors most strongly associated with poorer cognitive, social-emotional, and health outcomes among very young children. It also finds that the more risk factors a child has, the more profound the disparities. The data used for this brief were obtained from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study - Birth Cohort (ECLS-B), National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education. In order to further explore the influence of low income and other socio-demographic factors, researchers examined the overlap in these characteristics within a nationally representative sample, and determine the effects of cumulative risk for cognitive, health, and social-emotional outcomes.
Effects of Immigration on WIC and NSLP Caseloads
Description: The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) and the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) have no eligibility restrictions based on the legal status of immigrants. This study reveals an increase in the number and share of immigrants and their children in WIC and NSLP between the mid-1990s and 2006.
Family Caregivers – What They Spend, What They Sacrifice
Description: This study was undertaken to explore the financial aspects of caregiving for all types of family caregivers, including spousal caregivers. The study included a national telephone survey to examine costs of caregiving and their correlates of 1,000 family caregivers. In addition to the survey, a sample of survey respondents was recruited to participate in a 30-day study of actual expenses by keeping a diary of these expenses, as well as the opportunity costs associated with their caregiving responsibilities.
Food Hardship in America 2010: Households With and Without Children
Description: This report from the Food Research and Action Center (FRAC) examines rates of food hardship (rates of households answering “yes” over the course of a year to the question whether there were times over the past year “when you did not have enough money to buy food that you or your family needed”) for households without children and households with children.
Getting On, Staying On, and Getting Off Welfare: The Complexity of State-by-State Policy Choices
Author: Rowe, Gretchen; Linda Giannarelli
Description: This research brief reviews the multiple ways a family can get on welfare, stay on, and leave (or lose) assistance. It uses the Urban Institute's Welfare Rules Database to examine the variation in key policies. Details are offered on how each state defines its program as of 2003 and includes a discussion of how states' TANF programs differ from the program TANF replaced in 1996, Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), and highlights changes that have occurred over the past 10 years.
Description: This article provides the results of research into the association between a family's participation or nonparticipation in the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program and the anthropometric status and health of their young children.
Job Turnover, Wage Rates, and Marital Stability: How Are They Related?
Description: This study reveals evidence that job instability lowers wages and the likelihood of getting and remaining married, while marriage raises wages and job stability.
Description: This brief provides an analysis of benefit and service use among families of immigrant workers with children. Using data from the 2002 National Survey of America's Families, the authors examine safety net programs, including the earned income tax credit, cash welfare, food stamps, housing assistance, health insurance coverage, and child care.
Low-Income Working Families: Updated Facts and Figures
Description: A large percentage of American families have low incomes, which lead to a host of challenges and disadvantages for both parents and children. In 2006, one out of every three families with children had incomes below twice the federal poverty level (FPL): $40,888 for a family with two adults and two children. While these families face many of the same challenges as other families, they are particularly financially vulnerable. This fact sheet provides statistics on the work effort, earnings, health care access and other characteristics of these families.
Multiple Pathways Connecting to School and Work
Description: This brief explores the multiple pathways of connection to the labor market for youth transitioning to adulthood. Researchers found that while a majority of youth successfully connect to the labor market, many distinct subgroups follow very different, and often less successful, schooling and employment pathways. The findings suggest that targeted programs to help youth connect may be important.
Over Half of Low-Income Children Live With a Parent Who Works Regularly
Description: This article provides information on low-income working families, background on the barriers parents face to provide for their families, state-by-state rankings, and resources for helping working families
Over Half of Low-Income Children Live With a Parent Who Works Regularly
Description: This article provides information on low-income working families, background on the barriers parents face to provide for their families, state-by-state rankings, and resources for helping working families
Persistent Poverty and Upward Mobility
Description: This project encompasses cutting-edge individual and collaborative research on persistent poverty by team members, visitors, affiliates and (undergraduate and graduate) students.
Place Matters: Challenges and Opportunities in Four Rural Americas
Description: This report from the Carsey Institute at the University of New Hampshire is based on a comprehensive survey of nearly 8,000 Americans from 19 rural counties. It identifies four distinct, often disparate rural Americas. The research presents a complex picture of the economics, demographics, politics, and values of people in rural America today with implications for policy.
Description: This article summarizes information on the U.S. poverty rates.
RURAL AMERICA AT A GLANCE, 2008 EDITION
Description: Rural America At A Glance, 2008 Edition highlights the most recent indicators of social and economic conditions in rural areas for use in developing policies and programs to assist rural areas. The 2008 edition focuses on employment, poverty, population change, and demographic characteristics of nonmetro areas.
State Policies That Affect Working Families
Author: Phillips, Katherin
Description: States make many decisions that have an impact on the lives of working parents. This report looks at state involvement in four areas: job-protected family care policies, child care subsidies, early childhood education and elementary school schedules, and tax policy. Each section of the report discusses how employers and employees can benefit from the relevant type of family policy, summarizes the federal role in the policy area, and highlights state policy-making. Detailed tables outline specific state policy provisions.
Author: Manoogian, Margaret
Description: Interviews with rural employers were conducted at two points in time to examine employer needs, hiring practices, attitudes about low-income job applicants, and activities with county workforce development organizations. Employer perspectives were consistent over time and emphasized how employees with limited resources appeared unprepared for the workforce. Intangible characteristics, such as work ethic, attendance, attitude, and appearance, matter. When rural employers, social service agencies, and Extension collaborate in helping adults and families with limited resources, more relevant training programs are possible.
The Strengths of Poor Families
Author: Valladares, Sherylls; Kristin Anderson Moore
Description: To explore similarities and contrasts between poor and non-poor families, Child Trends analyzed data for more than 100,000 families from the 2003 National Survey of Children’s Health. Their results suggest that although poor families experience socioeconomic disadvantages, these families may be enriched by the strengths found in their family routines and relationships. While they found that poor families are at a disadvantage when it comes to receiving services and benefits and are more likely to express concerns about their neighborhoods, poor families did not differ from more affluent families in many ways, such as in the closeness of their relationships and the frequency of outings together or attending religious services.
The Well-being of Children in Working Poor and other Families: 1997 and 2004
Description: This research brief examines the well-being of children in working poor and other families between 1997 and 2004.
Two Generations in Poverty: Status and Trends among Parents and Children in the United States
Description: This brief draws on data from the U.S. Census Bureau, and focuses a two-generation lens on poverty rates and low-income status among children and parents. It presents data on differences across race, age, family structure, gender, education, employment status and geography.
Understanding Poverty: Poverty in the United States: the New Census Poverty Figures
Description: Provides information on the latest census about poverty in the U.S. including a description of who is poor, the consequences of poverty, and what works for fighting poverty.
Welfare Reform: An Analysis of the Issues
Description: This site provides an overview of articles written on welfare reform and issues surrounding it.
Description: This Future of Children journal reports on the effects of welfare reform and welfare to work efforts with implications for parent educators and policy makers.
What Does the Safety Net Accomplish?
Description: This series of reports examines the research on the impacts and accomplishments of government programs that assist low-income families and individuals. Each report includes state-by-state data on the number of the people assisted by the program.
Description: This set of research findings was compiled by six extension specialists. These findings address family and work factors with tips for families, the research findings, and a model of the relationship between family and work characteristics and family/worker performance and well being.
Youth from Low-Income Families
Description: This fact sheet compares the young adult outcomes and adolescent risk-taking behaviors of youth from low-income families to those from middle-income and high-income families.