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Holes in the Safety Net
Temporary Assistance for Needy Families and the Challenge of the Great Recession March 24, 2010Lauren DammeThe welfare reforms of 1996 replaced Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) with...
View ArticleCan We Afford to Ignore Rising Child Poverty?
October 19, 2010Reid CramerRachel BlackOctober 19, 2010The official arbiters have spoken: The Great Recession ended in the middle of last year. Unfortunately, this decree seems a bit hollow as new...
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Follow-Up: Poverty, Inequality, Mobility, Oh My!
On November 22nd, the Asset Building Program hosted a panel of experts to discuss how Americans are faring in the years since the Great Recession according to different measures. (Video from the event...
View ArticleHe Sees You When You’re Hitting Your Sister
December 14, 2011 Is the Elf on the Shelf a miracle for parents or preparation for living in a surveillance state? Torie BoschDecember 14, 2011As a child, I knew Santa was keeping an eye on me. Not...
View ArticleThe Sidebar: Girl-Centered Poverty Reduction and Gender Equality
This week, host Pamela Chan talks with Schwartz Fellow Brigid Schulte and Global Assets Project Research Associate Nicole Tosh to mark International Women’s Day by discussing girl-centered poverty...
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Asset Building News Week, April 9-13
The Asset Building News Week is a weekly Friday feature on The Ladder, the Asset Building Program blog, designed to help readers keep up with news and developments in the asset building field. This...
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Asset Building News Week, August 27-31
The Asset Building News Week is a weekly Friday feature on The Ladder, the Asset Building Program blog, designed to help readers keep up with news and developments in the asset building field. This...
View ArticleUpcoming Event: What the Presidential Candidates Should be Saying About Child...
As the school year starts again, parents across the country are concerned with finding reliable, safe and affordable child care. But with the presidential elections in full swing, neither President...
View ArticlePortals, Dashboards and Universal IDs: Improving Early Ed Data
States around the country have big plans to improve the collection and coordination of data on young children, including data dashboards, scorecards and tools for tracking the well-being of children...
View Article3 Reasons Why Early Learning Deserves More Attention in This Election
Last week, the Newark Star-Ledger's Linda Ocasio asked me why our presidential candidates should be talking about early learning and child care -- the lead topic in an open panel discussion hosted by...
View ArticleGuest Post: America’s Report Card Gives U.S. Poor Grades on Children’s Issues
Editor's note: This post originally appeared on New America's Education Policy program blog, Early Ed Watch.A new report from two child advocacy groups, First Focus and Save the Children, gave the...
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Early Ed’s 10 Hot Spots to Watch in 2013
Each January, Early Ed Watch predicts where we will see the most action, innovation and consternation in the year ahead. Here are the hot spots we see for 2013. Notable is the absence of the...
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Questions Swirling Around Obama’s Second-Term Steps on Early Learning
As President Obama gave his second inaugural address yesterday, many of us couldn’t help but linger over these words: “We are true to our creed,” Obama said, “when a little girl born into the bleakest...
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The Next Social Contract: An American Agenda for Reform
June 10, 2013Michael LindClick here to download the essay as a PDF.The American social contract is in crisis. Even before the Great Recession exposed its inadequacy, it was clear that the existing...
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Upcoming Event: "The Hell of American Day Care"
The Asset Building Program is hosting an event Monday to feature Jonathan Cohn’s recent article for The New Republic "The Hell of American Day Care." A great panel will help us piece together the...
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Event Summary: The Hell of American Day Care
The Asset Building Program and New America’s Early Education Initiative co-hosted an event yesterday on “The Hell of American Daycare,” so titled after a recent piece by Jonathan Cohn for The New...
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The Nightmare of Daycare
Editor's note: This piece originally appeared on New America's In The Tank blog. The average childcare worker in the U.S. earns less than a janitor. Sure, some daycare centers pay well, but the average...
View ArticleHHS Proposes New Child Care Rules
Editor's note: This post originally appeared on New America's Early Education Initiative blog. Conor Williams recently joined the Early Education Initiative as a Senior Researcher. He's just completed...
View ArticleGuest Post: Equality and Justice for All Families
Editor's note: This guest post was authored by Catherine Myers, the volunteer executive director of the national grassroots nonprofit Family and Home Network, founded in 1984.Americans are passionate...
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Amid Financial Collapse Detroit Builds a Promising Early Learning Model
This guest post was written by Paul Nyhan, a journalist and early education expert. He writes about early education at Thrive by Five Washington.In the next few months, guest blogger Paul Nyhan will...
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