Come join our team at the Urban Institute! Come work on policy and research projects focused on early childhood, safety net and financial security, and labor/apprenticeship. Hiring for researchers to begin in Summer 2022.
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#LiveAtUrban today at 12:45 ET: Hear from a panel of child welfare professionals & young parents with lived experience about how child welfare systems could address young parents’ needs.
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Women with children, and particularly Black women and those without a bachelor’s degree, have faced the sharpest declines in labor force participation and have recovered at much slower rates relative to those without kids. dallasfed.org/research/econo via
How are families with young children faring during the pandemic? Not well, according to this important and timely work from and Dulce Gonzalez
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Come join our team at the Urban Institute! Hiring for a research associate or senior research associate to help manage and lead projects on child welfare.
•Research associate: urban.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Urban-Ca
•Senior research associate: urban.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Urban-Ca
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An excellent summation from on how COVID-19-driven increases in job loss, income instability, and resulting strains on housing and food security are impairing child and family well-being in the United States. srcd.org/research/covid
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Excited to begin work on this new project with - the Early Head Start program is turning 25 this year, and this new work will focus on why and how HS grantees shift funding for EHS services.
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Exciting research from on the role of ACES in young children's self-regulation and student-teacher relationships!
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New research out on the link between #adversechildhoodexperiences in #preschool and children's self-regulation and student-teacher relationships. #childwellbeingnetwork #dorisdukefellows authors.elsevier.com/a/1bzid39HNKXo
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W/ "Addressing #race & #racism in research on #poverty and children’s development is going to be hard. However, the rewards will be full & rich, & will ultimately increase the impact of developmentally informed anti-poverty policies." buff.ly/3j7YkC5
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From #ChildDevelopment Journal (2020): "Cognitive Stimulation at Home and in Child Care and Children’s Preacademic Skills in Two‐Parent Families," by et al. from , , , and . doi.org/10.1111/cdev.1
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#LiveAtUrban on Tuesday: , , & discuss the impacts of a #2020Census undercount & how policymakers can mitigate these shortcomings & respond to the inevitable flaws in the final census product. Register to join:
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Our survey of parents documents the generally high levels of anxiety all parents are feeling in this moment, but it also documents the unique stressors faced by low-income families.
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An excellent summation of how early childhood development and ACES have long term consequences for health and well-being: nihcm.org/categories/hel
"More dads are choosing to stay home and take care of the kids instead of being the traditional breadwinner. And they’ve learned a few secrets they want to share." director of the weighs in: go.umd.edu/56T via
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Working mothers of school-age children bore the brunt of stay-at-home orders, taking personal leave or juggling childcare while working extra hours.
Although Latinos make up 16 percent of all adults in the US, less than 6 percent of employer firms are owned by Latinos.
The pandemic will likely deepen this inequality, but targeted support at the local level may prevent more harm.
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"The duality of the conversations around child care programs and public schools is rooted in a perceived gap between what “care” and “education” mean." nytimes.com/2020/08/04/par
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A recent paper written by and other authors found direct positive effects of fathers’ early cognitive stimulation on early reading and math skills of children at 48 and 60 months. #research #fatherhood
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How are young children, many of whom depend on the food they receive in child care, being fed during the pandemic amid closures? We take a closer look at the current strategies and what could happen this fall: urban.org/research/publi via
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From & G. Adams: To meet young children’s nutritional needs now & to build a more resilient system for the future, policymakers, school districts, communities, & other stakeholders can consider these 7 strategies.
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Interested in understanding how the pandemic is affecting child care providers and families in your state? Check out our list for recent surveys and findings - we’ll be updating as new resources are released
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New resource for program administrators and researchers: A list of COVID-19 child care surveys and data analyses. urbn.is/3hrhT6S
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Dear #poverty scholars, it is time for a reckoning. It is long overdue. #Discrimination, #structuralinequality & the lived experiences of the poor is not a tangent, it is core to "mainstream" poverty scholarship.
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"Decades of research show that a vast majority of court-involved youth have experienced trauma, often in the first 5 years of their lives. Locking them up earlier has not shown to be effective in helping them heal, or in protecting the public."
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It is common for caregiving adults to wonder and worry about how they should talk to children about racism and racial trauma. Explore guidance to support all children, & especially those who have experienced direct or secondary racial trauma: buff.ly/31B9rgW
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"As the US becomes more racially diverse, we need measures of segregation that help education leaders develop solutions that will have the biggest impact. By better understanding school segregation, we can find better ways to address it."
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Evidence shows the pandemic has more severely affected people of color because of structural racism’s persistent influence, writes .
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Talking To Children About Racism: Breaking the cycles of bias & violence starts at home by talking to children about racism rather than well-meaning adults avoiding the subject. Check out this article by Dr. Fisher, Dr. Hughes and our director Dr. Cabrera.
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Gina Adams: "There’s the cleaning supplies, there’s the actual personal protective equipment, there’s the time taken to sterilize the building every night, or sterilize equipment, or clean up in between things... All those equal money." (via )
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From : #Juneteenth is a national moment for antiracism learning, reflection, and collective action. urbn.is/2N9xPxB
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For every meal food banks provide, #SNAP provides nine. This problem is much bigger than we can address on our own. Child hunger is up 400% and 20M people are out of work. The Federal government needs to step up and feed Americans now.
politi.co/3h5SK2v via
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From C. Salerno & : The pandemic has exacerbated inequities across the food supply chain. urbn.is/3f285z3
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I'm encouraged by the new interest I'm seeing in big transformation for safety & justice. If this is new to you, welcome! Because I study community safety work, I'm getting questions like:
"What does the research say about defunding the police?"
This thread is on that. (1/8)
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A lot of people are asking how governments can fund safety strategies that don't involve police, prisons, or jails. Some already are, and we can learn from and build on these examples: urban.org/research/publi #InvestInCommunities
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#LiveAtUrban tomorrow: Join , , & 's Claire Babineaux-Fontenot to discuss food insecurity during the pandemic & what policymakers & practitioners can do to ensure everyone has enough to eat. Register to attend. urbn.is/3d7mI3q
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From : In the early weeks of the pandemic, 24.6% of nonelderly adults with kids under 19 & 25.6% with kids under 6 reported their households were food insecure in the previous month.
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Interested in evaluating a child welfare program or service? Join the free Evidence-Building Academy! tinyurl.com/yd7zebt4
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The last of a series of the 3 blogs on engaging the safety net to stabilize children. What role do you play in supporting children's healthy development?
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3. Help parents improve their own health. (via @CatherineKuhns_) urbn.is/2VLMofM
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COVID-19 Racial Health Disparities Highlight Why We Need to Address Structural Racism: urbn.is/2RrlIi7 via
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