A roadmap to reducing child poverty / Committee on Building an Agenda to Reduce the Number of Childr...
A roadmap to reducing child poverty / Committee on Building an Agenda to Reduce the Number of Childr...
A roadmap to reducing child poverty / Committee on Building an Agenda to Reduce the Number of Children in Poverty by Half in 10 Years ; Greg Duncan and Suzanne Le Menestrel, editors, Board on Children, Youth, and Families and Committee on National Statistics, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education.
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Washington, DC : The National Academies Press, [2019]
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G 2020/3848
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English
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Physical content
xvii, 290 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 23 cm
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
Summary -- Introduction -- A demographic portrait of child poverty in the United States -- Consequences of child poverty -- How the labor market, family structure, and government programs affect child poverty -- Ten policy and program approaches to reducing child poverty -- Packages of policies and...
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Washington, DC : The National Academies Press, [2019]
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District of Columbia
Date Published
[2019]
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Summary
The strengths and abilities children develop from infancy through adolescence are crucial for their physical, emotional, and cognitive growth, which in turn help them to achieve success in school and to become responsible, economically self-sufficient, and healthy adults. Capable, responsible, and healthy adults are clearly the foundation of a well...
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Full title
A roadmap to reducing child poverty / Committee on Building an Agenda to Reduce the Number of Children in Poverty by Half in 10 Years ; Greg Duncan and Suzanne Le Menestrel, editors, Board on Children, Youth, and Families and Committee on National Statistics, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education.
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Artists
Le Menestrel, Suzanne, editor.
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (U.S.). Board on Children, Youth, and Families, issuing body.
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (U.S.). Committee on National Statistics. issuing body.
National Academies Press (U.S.), printer.
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A consensus study report of the Natonal Academies of Sciences, Engineering, Medicine
Appendices D, E, and F are available online.
Includes bibliographical references.
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©2019
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G 2020/3848
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74VKaMwAow5O
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKaMwAow5O
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ISBN
9780309483988 (paperback)
0309483980 (paperback)
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371.826942
MMS ID
991024345816402626
