ResearchThis brief from the National Center for Homeless Education provides basic information to help homeless service providers and homeless education staff understand each other’s role in supporting children, youth, and families experiencing homelessness, while offering tools to enhance collaboration among agencies.
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ResearchIn 2009 and 2010 the Commonwealth of Virginia convened a task force to look comprehensively at State-level policies aimed at alleviating poverty for Virginians. This summary report details existing programs, challenges and ultimately recommendations.
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ResearchA profile of the Eden Housing collaboration with the Partnership for Children and Youth by the National Housing Conference.
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ResearchThis Urban Institute article takes a look at a San Diego-area development that serves as a case study for multigenerational affordable housing.
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ResearchA new report by EdBuild ranks the school district boundaries that most sharply divide student populations by poverty rate.
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ResearchUsing the Three-City Study, which provides longitudinal statistics on low-income children from Boston, Chicago, and San Antonio who live in moderate- or high-poverty neighborhoods, the researchers used data from a random sample of 495 children who lived in a household earning less than 200 percent of the federal poverty level with a primary female caregiver. The authors analyzed various indicators of child outcomes, environmental chaos, family instability, parental functioning, and biological vulnerability from three waves of the study (1999, 2001, and 2005-06).
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ResearchThis Century Foundation 2016 white paper outlines the numerous benefits of integrating schools socioeconomically and racially.
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ResearchResearch from Children’s HealthWatch shows public investment in housing—including housing for homeless families and rental assistance for food-insecure families—improves the health outcomes of vulnerable infants and young children and lowers health care spending.
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ResearchThis new study supported in part by the Center for Poverty Research has found that redistricting can increase educational inequality, increase segregation within schools and hurt already disadvantaged students and communities.
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