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Child Trends’ new research brief on family poverty

Two Generations in Poverty: Status and Trends among Parents and Children in the United States, 2000-2010
January 04, 2012

"As poverty has become more widespread in the United States, it is important to acknowledge the large body of research documenting the association between poverty or economic hardship and negative outcomes for parents, especially women, and their children."

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Poverty and Upward Mobility - Audio Recording

Panelists discuss From Wall Street to Main Street to “El Callejon” (back ally): Economic and Educational Realities of Latino Immigrant Families in the Rural Midwest ; You Moved Up, Did You Forget Us?: African American Intra-Familial Social Mobility ; Economic Hardship and Mexican American Adolescents' Family Relationships ; African American Families during the Economic Downturn
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Cost of Living Relates to Child Development

A new analysis using data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Studies-Kindergarten Cohort (ECLS-K), a nationally-representative sample of children entering kindergarten in 1998, found that the local cost of living is correlated with child development outcomes. Higher cost of living was related to lower academic achievement in first grade, even after controlling for family income and a comprehensive set of social and demographic variables. This effect was found only for families with incomes below 300% of the federal poverty threshold (i.e., below $66,339 for a family of four). It may be that families with higher incomes are not as sensitive to geographic variations in cost of living.

National Center for Children in Poverty
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From the National Center for Children in Poverty

October 18, 2011

Who are America's Poor Children?  Examining Food Insecurity among Children in the United States

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News from Stanford University's "Magazine on Poverty, Inequality and Social Policy"

August 16, 2011

The Stanford Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality just released the summer issue of their magazine.

from 2011 NCFR Annual Conference
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10:00 am - 11:30 am | Grand Ballroom B

The Environment of Childhood Poverty

Special Session

Facilitators: Sarah Schoppe-Sullivan and Curtis Fox

We have known for many years that poverty is bad for children, but why is that? A principal reason for poverty’s adverse impacts on children is because of the confluence of physical and psychosocial risks that disadvantaged children must regularly contend with, says presenter Dr. Gary Evans. He will review descriptive data from a wide range of studies, will document the panoply of risks that low SES children endure, and provide an in-depth look at a longitudinal research program designed to investigate the role of cumulative risk exposure in conveying poverty’s ill effects on human development.

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8:15 am - 9:45 am | Salon 21

Bumps on the Road to Adulthood

Concurrent Sessions 8

Discussant: Laurie Meschke
Presider: Spencer Olmstead

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SRCD Policy Report Brief - Early Childhood Development Programs in Global Contexts: Improving Quality

This brief summarizes a longer Social Policy Report. A quarter of the world's youngest children suffer one or more forms of severe deprivation and risk, such as poverty, disease, and exposure to violence. Early childhood development (ECD) programs are considered one of the most promising approaches to providing more equitable outcomes for deprived and at-risk children and families. While the number of children and families served by ECD programs has grown, research shows that without a concurrent commitment to program quality, potential gains for children may be lost and glaring disparities in outcomes maintained.

Stanford Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality
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Stress and Early Childhood Brain Development

May 17, 2011

The Stanford Center for the Study of Poverty has an interesting article on their website titled “Building a Foundation for Prosperity on the Science of Early Childhood Development, by Jack Shonkoff, M.D.

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United Nations observes the International Day of Families

May 12
April 12, 2011

The 2011 observance of the International Day of Families: "Confronting family poverty and social exclusion"