Family Well-Being Research

Toward a Two-Generation Strategy: Voices of American Families
A Half-Empty Plate: Fruit and Vegetable Affordability and Access Challenges in America
The Recession’s Ongoing Impact on America’s Children: Indicators of Children’s Economic Well-Being through 2011
Overlooked and Underpaid: Number of Low-Income Working Families Increases to 10.2 Million
America’s Youngest Outcasts 2010
Tightening Squeeze: The Declining Expenditures on Food by American Households
Overcrowding and Frequent Moves Undermine Children’s Health
Head Start: Supporting Success for Children and Families
Strengthening Families Through Stronger Fathers: Final Impact Report for the Pilot Employment Programs
Rent Burden, Housing Subsidies and the Well-being of Children and Youth
Today’s Children, Tomorrow’s America: Six Experts Face the Facts
Boost to SNAP Benefits Protected Young Children’s Health
Hunger in America: Suffering We all Pay For
More Poor Kids in More Poor Places: Children Increasingly Live Where Poverty Persist
Work-Family Conflict: Look to Employers and Communities for Solutions
Future of Children Journal: Work and Family
Beds Not Buses: Housing vs. Transportation for Homeless Students
Reducing Poverty and Increasing Marriage Rates among Latinos and African Americans
Hunger and Poverty among Latino Immigrant Children
Household Food Security in the United States in 2010
Map the Meal Gap: Child Food Insecurity 2011
Six Ways that States and School Districts Can Make It Easier for Children in Foster Care to Get Free Meals at School
Food Hardship in America 2010: Households with and without Children
KIDS COUNT Data Book 2011
The Marginalization of Marriage in Middle America
US Housing Insecurity and the Health of Very Young Children
State of America’s Children 2011
Restoring Work by Poor Fathers
House WIC Cuts Would End Food Assistance for 300,000 to 450,000 Low-Income Women and Children
Supporting Fathers
Medicaid Works: A Review of How Public Insurance Protects the Health and Finances of Children and Other Vulnerable Populations
Protecting Children in Tough Economic Times: What Can the United States Learn from Britain?
Federal Programs that Protect Young Children’s Health
Child Care Choices of Low-Income Working Families
Young Disadvantaged Men: Father, Families, Poverty, and Policy
Not Working: Unemployment Among Married Couples
Poor Children by Parents’ Nativity: What Do We Know?
Energy Assistance Programs Benefitted 48 Percent More Households During Recession: Proposed Cuts Threaten Vulnerable Families
Unique Opportunity to Improve School Meals Applications
Food Security Improved Following the 2009 ARRA Increase in SNAP Benefits
Second Chance Homes: A Resource for Teen Mothers
Multigenerational Households Are Increasing
A Hand Up: How State Earned Income Tax Credits Help Working Families Escape Poverty in 2011
Welfare Reform at Age 15: A Vanishing Safety Net for Women and Children
Parental Relationship Quality and Child Outcomes Across Subgroups
Diverging Pathways: How Wealth Shapes Opportunity for Children
A Two-Generational Child-Focused Program Enhanced with Employment Services
SNAP Take-up Among Immigrant Families with Children
Too Many Hurdles: Barriers to Receiving SNAP Put Children’s Health at Risk
Dynamics of Economic Well-Being: Poverty, 2004-2006
Paid Family Leave: Why the Family and Medical Leave Act Fails to Meet the Needs of America’s Working Families
Children in Immigrant Families: Ensuring Opportunity for Every Child in America
Paid Family Leave: Why the Family and Medical Leave Act Fails to Meet the Needs of America’s Working Families
Food Hardship in America-2010,
LIHEAP Stabilizes Family Housing and Protects Children’s Health
Behind Closed Doors: The Hidden Health Impacts of Being Behind on Rent,
Who Are America’s Poor Children? Examining Health Disparities Among Children in the United States
U.S. Conference of Mayors 2010 Status Report on Hunger & Homelessness
Child Care Instability: Definitions, Context, and Policy Implications
The Children Left Behind: A League Table of Inequality in Child Well-Being in the World’s Rich Countries
Great Recession Hit Hard at America’s Working Poor: Nearly 1 in 3 Working Families in United States are Low-Income
Child Poverty During the Great Recession: Predicting State and Child Poverty Rates for 2010
More Than One in Ten American Households Relies on Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Benefits
We Dream a World: The 2025 Vision for Black Men and Boys
Children of Immigrants: Economic Well-Being
Strategies to Combat Childhood Hunger in Four U.S. Cities
Hard Times Made Harder: Struggling Caregivers and Child Neglect
The Effect of the Recession on Child Well-Being
Household Food Security in the United States, 2009
Children of Immigrants: Healthy Beginnings Derailed by Food Insecurity
A Challenge to Our Nation: Improving the Economic Well-Being of Latino Kids
Low-Income Hispanic Children Need Both Private and Public Food Assistance
Emergency Food Assistance Helps Many Low-Income Hispanic Children
Big Ideas: Game-Changers for Children
Wives as Breadwinners: Wives’ Share of Family Earnings Hits Historic High during the Second Year of the Great Recession (pdf)
Young Child Poverty in 2009: Rural Poverty Rate Jumps to Nearly 29 Percent in Second Year of Recession (pdf)
Smallest Victims of the Foreclosure Crisis: Children in the District of Columbia
Marriage: America’s Greatest Weapon Against Child Poverty
Earning More, Receiving Less: Loss of Benefits and Child Hunger
Penny Wise, Pound Foolish: Why Tackling Child Poverty During the Great Recession Makes Economic Sense
Who Are America’s Children? Examining Food Insecurity Among Children in the United States
A Critical Moment: Child & Youth Homelessness in Our Nation’s Schools
2010 KIDS COUNT Data Book
U.S. Family Structure and the Economic Mobility of Children Young Disadvantaged Men: Fathers, Families, Poverty, and Policy. An Introduction to the Issues
U.S. Family Structure and the Economic Mobility of Children
U.S. Teenage Pregnancies, Births and Abortions: National and State Trends and Trends by Race and Ethnicity (pdf)
The Strengths of Poor Families (pdf)
Changing Poverty and Changing Antipoverty Policies
Births: Preliminary Data for 2007 (pdf)
National Campaign Analysis: Preliminary 2007 Teen Birth Data
Navigating the Child Support System: Lessons from the Fathers at Work Initiative
Reducing Poverty by Revitalizing Marriage in Low-Income Communities: A Memo to President-elect Obama
Rebuild the Nation's Child Welfare System (pdf)
Fragile Families and the Reproduction of Poverty
Teen Births: Examining the Recent Increase (pdf)
The Enduring Challenge of Concentrated Poverty in America: Case Studies from Communities Across the U.S.
The Impact of Government Programs on Reproductive Health Disparities: Three Case Studies
Why it Matters: Teen Pregnancy, Poverty and Income Disparity (PDF)
The Next Stage for Social Policy: Encouraging Work, Family Formation among Low-Income Men
Cohabitation and Marriage Rules in State TANF Programs
State Strategies to Reduce Child and Family Poverty
Parents Work, Depressive Symptoms, Children, and Family Economic Mobility: What Can Ethnography Tell Us?
The Behavioral Aspects of Poverty
Work and Marriage: The Way to End Poverty and Welfare
Ending Poverty in America: Using Carrots and Sticks
Testimony before the Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support of the House Committee on Ways and Means
By the Numbers: The Public Costs of Teen Childbearing (PDF)
Service Delivery and Evaluation Design Options for Strengthening and Promoting Healthy Marriages