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Vulnerable Families
Ò×ʤ²©¹ÙÍø State Rep Patrick Abrami is sponsoring one of two key bills aimed at altering the state's formula for determining child support payments, which are currently the third-highest in the nation. Many of the changes Abrami has presented came from a 2018 Carsey School of Public Policy...
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03/21/22Making Childcare More Accessible
Carsey School of Public Policy Research Assistant ProfessorÌýJess Carson and Ph.D. student Kamala Nasirova met the summer of 2021 through a mutual... -
02/07/22Childcare for children under the age of 12 has beenÌýa struggle for many households in the recent years. An article from the Berlin SunÌýexamines...
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01/26/22COVID-19 has taken a toll on many, but as the economy begins to recover, some demographics are still behind.ÌýAn article from Policy Genius examines...
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01/03/22Todd Bookman of Ò×ʤ²©¹ÙÍø Public Radio recently reported on the nationwide dearth of adequate child care, citing new research from Jess Carson at...
Recent Stories
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07/08/17 -A researcher at the Carsey School of Public Policy at the University of Ò×ʤ²©¹ÙÍø recently released a study that suggests the state serves even less than 30 percent of...
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07/06/17 -In recent years the federal government has told states like Ò×ʤ²©¹ÙÍø that they can’t impose work requirements for Medicaid recipients. But with Republicans in charge in...
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06/17/17 -A researcher at the Carsey School of Public Policy at the University of Ò×ʤ²©¹ÙÍø recently released a study that found only 837 funded slots for Early Head Start in Maine, but...
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05/23/17 - Ò×ʤ²©¹ÙÍø Research Finds Most Poor Maine Children Don’t Have Access to Early EducationMaine has just 837 funded Early Head Start (EHS) slots but more than 8,000 poor children age 0-2 who would benefit from the early intervention, according to new research released... Read More -
05/16/17 - Ò×ʤ²©¹ÙÍø Research Finds Income Matters When It Comes to Access to After-School ActivityHigher-income youth are twice as likely to be employed and one-and-a-half times as likely to participate in extracurricular activities as their lower-income counterparts,... Read More -
05/09/17 - Ò×ʤ²©¹ÙÍø Research Finds Elderly Tax Breaks Have Little Impact on MovesExisting state income tax breaks for the elderly result in non-trivial reductions in state revenue and offer little relief to the most vulnerable elderly, according to new... Read More -
05/02/17 -Chilc care costs are often the tipping point in pushing low-income famililes into poverty, new research from the University of Ò×ʤ²©¹ÙÍø's Carsey School of Public Policy...
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05/02/17 - Ò×ʤ²©¹ÙÍø Research Finds Child Care Expenses Push Low-Income Families into PovertyOne-third of poor families who pay for child care – 207,000 nationally -- are pushed into poverty as a result of their child care expenses, according to new research released by... Read More -
04/27/17 -Beth Mattingly, director of research on vulnerable families at the Carsey School of Public Policy, discusses how nearly one-third (30.4 percent) of families with young children...
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04/25/17 - Ò×ʤ²©¹ÙÍø Research Finds More Than 95 Percent of U.S. Children Have Health InsuranceMore than 95 percent of all U.S. children were covered by some form of health insurance in 2015, the most since data started being collected in 2008, according to new research out... Read More