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Early Education Investments: Economic Importance and Policy Implementation
May 04, 2009
This Dispatch will discusshow funding from the federal recovery plan can help offset the costs ofmaintaining and even expanding early education programs. This Dispatchwill also highlight the economic and educational benefits of supportingearly education programs, as well as the different methods that stategovernments are employing to help reduce the cost of and promote theexpansion of quality early child care and state pre-k programs. -
Child Care: A Valuing Families Campaign Issue
Sep 25, 2006
In state elections across the country, how to create quality, affordable child care has become a potent campaign issue. -
Welfare "Reform": Ten Years Later
Sep 18, 2006
It's now ten years since the 1996 welfare law promised to end "welfare as we know it." That goal may have been accomplished, but the results have been decidedly mixed, both for poor families and for state lawmakers coping with changing federal mandates.