TOPIC: Children and Poverty

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General
• Achievement Gaps: An Examination of Student Achievement and Growth
• Characteristics of U.S. 15-Year-Old Low Achievers in an International Context
• Child Poverty in the United States
• Childhood Residential Mobility and Multiple Health Risks During Adolescence and Adulthood: The Hidden Role of Adverse Childhood Experiences
• Children in Poverty: Trends, Consequences, and Policy Options
• Children Left Behind: How Metropolitan Areas are Failing America's Children (2007) D. Acevedo-Garcia, et al, Harvard School of Public Health.
• Duration and Developmental Timing of Poverty and Children's Cognitive and Social Development From Birth Through Third Grade
• The Economic Costs of Child Poverty
• How Does Family Well-Being Vary across Different Types of Neighborhoods?
• Inequality in the Built Environment Underlies Key Health Disparities in Physical Activity and Obesity
• The impact of family income on child development
• Mental Health Needs of Low-Income Children with Special Health Care Needs (2009) K. VanLandeghem & C. Brach. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Pub No. 09-0033.
• Poverty and Learning: ERIC Digest, #83
• Poverty and Potential: Out of School Factors and School Success
• Socioeconomic differences in adolescent stress (2007) D. Finkelstein, et al, Journal of Adolescent Health, 40(2) 127-134.
• Understanding Changes in Child Poverty Over the Past Decade (2006) A. Nichols, Urban Institute.
• Understanding Educational Excellence and Equity at Scale, Annenberg Institue website
• Unnatural Causes: is inequality making us sick?
• What's a Youngster to do? The Education and Labor Market Plight of Youth in High-Poverty Communities
• Who are America's Poor Children?
• Will Disadvantaged Students Benefit From a Free Market in Supplemental Education Services?
• Youth from Distressed Neighborhoods
• Youth from Low-Income Families

Strategies and Recommendations

• 10 Things You Can Do In Your School to Address Child Poverty
• Child Poverty: Analysis and Recommendations
• An Education Strategy to Promote Opportunity, Prosperity, and Growth
• Ensuring opportunities for disadvantaged children and families
• Strategies for Preventing Homelessness
• Reducing Health Disparities Among Children: Strategies and Programs for Health Plans

Organizations and Associations

• Child Welfare Information Gateway
• National Center for Children in Poverty
• National School Lunch Foundation

Racial and Ethnic groups

• A Profile of Low-Income Working Immigrant Families
• Analysis: African American Children in Poverty
• Do Parenting and the Home Environment, Maternal Depression, Neighborhood, and Chronic Poverty Affect Child Behavioral Problems Differently in Different Racial-Ethnic Groups? (2006) L. Pachter, et al. Pediatrics, 117(4) 1329-1338.

Research & Statistics

• Achievement and Behavior Among Children of Welfare Recipients, Welfare Leavers, and Low-Income Single Mothers.(Statistical Data Included)
• Adolescent Birth Rates, Total Homicides and Income Inequality in Rich Countries (2005). K. Pickett, et al, American Journal of Public Health, 95(7) 1181-118
• Basic Facts about Low-income Children (National Center for Children in Poverty)
• California Report Card 2004.  Children Now (2004)
• The enduring challenge of concentrated poverty in America
• Kids Count data book (2006)
• Low-income Children in the United States: National and State Trend Data, 1997-2007
• National Study of Child Care for Low-Income Families: State and Community Substudy (pdf document)
• The New Poor: Regional Trends in Child Poverty Since 2000. (2006) National Center for Children in Poverty
• An Overview of Selected Data on Children in Vulnerable Families
• Poverty in America: Economic Research Shows Adverse Impacts on Health Status and Other Social Conditions as well as the Economic Growth Rate
• Reducing Disparities Beginning in Early Childhood
• Socioeconomic Conditions, Stress, and Mental Disorders: Toward a New Synthesis of Research and Public Policy
• Understanding Recent Changes in Child Poverty

Schools and Communities

• Community Interventions to Promote Healthy Social Environments: Early Childhood Development and Family Housing
• State Poverty-Based Education Funding
• The Next Generation of Antipoverty Policies (Future of Children)
• The Pedagogy of Poverty Versus Good Teaching
• Neighborhood Residence and Mental Health Problems of 5- to 11-Year-Olds
• The Relations Between Persistent Poverty and Contextual Risk and Children's Behavior in Elementary School
• The Relationship of Individual and Family Factors to the Psychological Well-Being of Junior High School Students Living in Urban Poverty

• Center for the Future of Children
• Child Trends, Inc.
• Children's Defense Fund
• Children Now
• Free the Children
• Institute for Research on Poverty
• Kids Count
• The Annie E. Casey Foundation
• The Child Welfare League of America
• The Institute for Children and Poverty
• The National Center for Children in Poverty

• Access to care for children of the working poor. By S. Guendelman ∓ M. Pearl. (2001). Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, 155, 651-658.
• Effects of Welfare and Employment Policies on Young Children: New Findings on Policy Experiments Conducted in the Early 1990s. Pamela A. Morris, Lisa A. Gennetian, and Greg J. Duncan. 2005. Social Policy Report 19, No. 2.
• For Love and Money? The Impact of Family Structure on Family Income. By Adam Thomas and Isabel Sawhill. Future of Children, 15, no. 2 (Fall 2005): 57-74.
• How Welfare and Work Policies for Parents Affect Adolescents: A Synthesis of Research. Lisa A. Gennetian, Greg J. Duncan, Virginia W. Knox, Wanda G. Vargas, Elizabeth Clark-Kauffman, Andrew S. London. 2002. New York: MDRC.
• New Hope for Families and Children: Five-Year Results of a Program to Reduce Poverty and Reform Welfare. By Aletha C. Huston and others. New York: MDRC, 2003; and an unpublished eight-year follow-up survey results from the New Hope evaluation
• Work over Welfare: The Inside Story of the 1996 Welfare Reform Law. By Ron Haskins. 2006. Brookings Institution Press.

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