Research
The High Cost of Higher Education
Posted by Bill Bentley on Mar. 29 In this report PPC outlines recommendations to help Pennsylvania students and their families pay for college. Two models to consider include last-dollar scholarships (after all other forms of financial aid have been exhausted) to low-income students, and alignment of college costs with family income that would establish the share of tuition a family pays based on their income.The Right Choices for Our Children: Major findings from the Northern Hills Child Care Survey
Posted by Bill Bentley on Mar. 29 The realization that quality child care and early education are core components of a strong and economically vibrant community prompted formation in 2006 of the Northern Hills Business-Civic Leadership(BCL) Group on Early Care and Education. Its focus was development of a community response to improve quality care and early learning for children.Addressing Child Poverty in America
Posted by Bill Bentley on Mar. 29 Addressing Child Poverty in America: Two Perspectives By: Jared Bernstein, Director of the Living Standards, Economic Policy Institute and Ron Haskins, Senior Fellow for Economic Studies Program, The Brookings Institution
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Child Poverty in Massachusetts: A Tale of Two States
Posted by Bill Bentley on Mar. 29 In this 60-page Kids Count report, funded by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, Massachusetts Citizens for Children urges the Commonwealth to join with 16 other states that have established formal Child Poverty Reduction Initiatives, including Connecticut, Maine and Vermont and large states such as California, Illinois, Michigan and Minnesota.Connecting Child Poverty
Posted by Bill Bentley on Mar. 29 A compendium of essays on child poverty highlighting the driving concerns, ongoing efforts, and the vision of individual members of the VOICES network and the broad national child advocacy community is a first step toward elevating the national discussion on issues of poverty.
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Oklahoma Institute for Child Advocacy Uses a Forum to Engage Gubernatorial Candidate
Posted by Bill Bentley on Mar. 29Form a 501(c)(4) Organization to Open Advocacy Doors
Posted by Bill Bentley on Mar. 29
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Promises To America’s Children
Posted by Bill Bentley on Mar. 27 Each year Voices for America’s Children compiles the pledges to improve the lives and opportunities for children that the nation’s governors lay out in their annual State of the State addresses. Promises to America’s Children pulls these priorities together in a single report.
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