One percent for the kids [electronic resource] : new policies, brighter futures for America's children / Isabel V. Sawhill, editor

Title	One percent for the kids [electronic resource] : new policies, brighter futures for America's children / Isabel V. Sawhill, editor
Imprint	Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2003
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Descript	ix, 194 p. : ill

CONTENT

Promoting the healthy development of young children / Greg J. Duncan and Katherine Magnuson -- When work alone is not enough / Robert Haveman -- Preventing early childbearing / Andrea Kane and Isabel V. Sawhill -- Strengthening fragile families / Irwin Garfinkel and Sara McLanahan -- Family policy and academic achievement / David J. Armor -- Providing universal preschool for four-year-olds / Barbara Wolfe and Scott Scrivner -- Improving neighborhoods for poor children / Jens Ludwig -- The Blair government and child poverty : an extra one percent for children in the United Kingdom / John Hills

SUBJECT

Child welfare -- United States
Children -- Services for -- United States
Children -- United States -- Social conditions
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