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October 5, 2012
Type: Report
Making health coverage available to uninsured children is great! But it doesn't help if parents don't know coverage is available, can't navigate often-complicated enrollment systems, or can't get connected to health care providers who can meet their ...
October 5, 2012
Type: Report
Dr. Ray discusses challenges and identifies efforts undertaken to improve children's oral health care in New Mexico. The paper provides an overview of best practices and offers policy recommendations that could help other states make progress in ...
September 27, 2012
Type: Report
The lack of action by federal policymakers to address immigration reform has resulted in the introduction of state laws around the country that have a direct impact on children of ...
September 27, 2012
Type: Report
Increased rates of immigration enforcement and record numbers of parents of U.S. citizen children being deported have resulted in more children entering the foster care ...
September 27, 2012
Type: Report
By changing their juvenile justice policies and shifting funding priorities, states can dramatically alter their juvenile justice ...
September 27, 2012
Type: Report
More uniform and improved implementation of the Indian Child Welfare Act across Southwestern states would promote tribal survival and positively impact Native American ...
September 27, 2012
Type: Report
Recent years have seen a dramatic increase in child poverty, culminating in a twenty-year high of 22 percent in 2010. The 2011 data showed a national child poverty rate of 21.9 percent, essentially unchanged from the year ...
September 24, 2012
Type: Report
A home is the foundation of family life, and poor housing conditions can have a strong, negative impact on the lives of children. These impacts are particularly strong in the colonias region, which has a history of housing and infrastructure ...
September 24, 2012
Type: Report
While the Southwest is a rich, diverse region and the emerging center of the U.S. child population, child well-being in many of these states is substantially lower than elsewhere in the country. These trends raise a difficult federalism ...
September 24, 2012
Type: Report
New research indicates that child well-being is just as much influenced by the tax code as it is by public spending on children. There is tremendous divergence, however, at the state level between state governments that use their tax code to ...
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