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Download full textWolfson, Julia; Insolera, Noura; Cohen, Alicia – University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research, 2019
In this report we present results from our study of the effect of SNAP [Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program] and WIC [Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children] participation during childhood on food insecurity risk in young adulthood. We also examined the effect of parental nutritional knowledge and childhood…
Descriptors: Food, Security (Psychology), Federal Programs, Nutrition
White, Chaunté; Cruse, Lindsey Reichlin – Institute for Women's Policy Research, 2021
Higher education is essential to accessing high-demand jobs with family-supporting wages and improving family financial wellbeing. This was true before the COVID-19 pandemic and is especially true now as the nation continues the process of recovering from one of the worst public health, economic, and social crises in modern U.S. history. To…
Descriptors: State Policy, College Students, Parents, COVID-19
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Direct linkFernald, Lia C. H.; Kagawa, Rose M. C.; Knauer, Heather A.; Schnaas, Lourdes; Guerra, Armando Garcia; Neufeld, Lynnette M. – Developmental Psychology, 2017
We examined effects on child development of a group-based parenting support program ("Educación Inicial" - EI) when combined with Mexico's conditional cash transfer (CCT) program ("Prospera," originally 'Oportunidades" and "Progresa"). This cluster-randomized trial included 204 communities (n = 1,113 children in…
Descriptors: Child Development, Welfare Services, Poverty Programs, Family Programs
Riccio, James; Miller, Cynthia – MDRC, 2016
This report summarizes the findings of a long-term evaluation of Opportunity NYC--Family Rewards, an experimental, privately funded, conditional cash transfer (CCT) program to help families break the cycle of poverty. Family Rewards was the first comprehensive CCT program in a developed country. Launched in 2007 by New York City's Center for…
Descriptors: Urban Areas, Welfare Services, Poverty Programs, Low Income Groups
McLoyd, Vonnie C.; Kaplan, Rachel; Purtell, Kelly M.; Huston, Aletha C. – Child Development, 2011
The impacts of New Hope, a 3-year work-based antipoverty program to increase parent employment and reduce poverty, on youth ages 9-19 (N = 866) were assessed 5 years after parents left the program. New Hope had positive effects on the future orientation and employment experiences of boys, especially African American boys. Compared to boys in…
Descriptors: Poverty Programs, Parents, Children, Program Effectiveness
Huston, Aletha C.; Gupta, Anjali E.; Walker, Jessica Thornton; Dowsett, Chantelle J.; Epps, Sylvia R.; Imes, Amy E.; McLoyd, Vonnie C. – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2011
New Hope, an employment-based poverty-reduction intervention for adults evaluated in a random-assignment experimental design, had positive impacts on children's achievement and social behavior two and five years after random assignment. The question addressed in this paper was the following: Did the positive effects of New Hope on younger children…
Descriptors: Low Income Groups, Parents, Employment, Poverty Programs
