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Round-Up of Family Financial Security News - Friday, July 23, 2010
 
 
 
6.17.10 Good Child Care Should Not Be a Luxury Item (State of the Children blog)
 
6.16.10 New Poverty Measure Stirs Discussion (Texans Care Newsroom)
 
 
6.16.10 Enrolling All Children in a Household in Free Meals (Center on Budget and Policy Priorities)

6.15.10 Employers Increasingly Expect Some Education After High School (New York Times)

6.12.10 Attorneys Fight Food Stamp Delays (The Brownsville Herald)

6.11.10 Expenditures on Children by Families: 2009 (U.S. Department of Agriculture)

6.10.10 Over 3 Million Low-Income Children Face Cut in Child Tax Credit if Recovery Act Improvement Expires (CBPP and the Carsey Institute)
6.10.10 The Big Hungry: Participation in Summer Food Program Dismally Low (Texas Tribune)

6.9.10 Millions Forced to Wait for Food Stamp Benefits (Associated Press)

6.8.10 Movement Aims to Foster College-Going Culture (San Antonio Express-News)

6.6.10 Lubbock, State Programs Help Make Sure Kids Don't Go Hungry (Lubbock Avalanche-Journal)

6.3.10 Texas Agriculture Chief Working to Feed More Hungry Children this Summer (Dallas Morning News)

6.2.10 Mind the Gap: Discriminatory Practices, Public Policies Foster Accelerating Wealth Disparity (Houston Chronicle editorial)

6.2.10 Over-age High School Could Help DISD Curb Dropout Rate (Dallas Morning News editorial)

5.30.10 Poll Finds Debt-Dogged Americans Stressed Out (Associated Press) 

5.21.10 Texas Jobless Rate Rises to 8.3 Percent in April (Houston Chronicle)

5.20.10 Rural Kids Have Limited Access to Summer Lunch Programs (Carsey Institute)

5.17.10 Funds for Youth Jobs, Medicaid, TANF in Flux on Capitol Hill (Voices for America's Children)

5.12.10 When Investors Buy Up the Neighborhood: Strategies to Prevent …Neighborhood Decline (PolicyLink)

5.11.10 Children Suffer When Families Have to Choose between Health Care and Bills (Voices for America's Children)

5.7.10Study: State Could Save Billions of Dollars by Keeping Dropouts in School (Lubbock Avalanche Journal)

5.5.10 Promise Neighborhoods Institute Provides New Resource(PolicyLink)
4.29.10 Poor Childhood Takes Lifelong Toll, Study Finds (Philadelphia Inquirer)

4.26.10 Feed Today, Lead Tomorrow: End Child Hunger (Voices for America’s Children)

4.26.10 Opportunity and Ownership Over the Life Cycle (Urban Institute)

4.26.10 Texas Tries to Ease Backlog of Food Stamp Requests (Associated Press)

4.26.10 Payday Lenders – Predators not Providers (Moms Rising)
4.22.10 Weathering the Storm: Have IDAs Helped Low-Income Homebuyers Avoid Foreclosure? (Urban Institute)

4.22.10 Turning Community College Dropouts into Graduates(Center for Public Policy Priorities)

4.14.10 Young and Hungry: A Still-Deep Recession Weighs Heavily on North Texas Kids (Fort Worth Weekly)

4.12.10 Poverty Can Slow Kids' Normal Development(Business Week)

4.12.10 Poverty Can Slow Kids' Normal Development (Business Week) 

4.9.10 Research: Poverty’s Impact on a Child’s Future is Most Pernicious in Early Childhood (New America Foundation)

4.7.10 Connected by 25: Effective Policy Solutions for Vulnerable Youth (Youth Transition Funders Group)

4.7.10 Improving Access to Public Benefits (The Ford Foundation, Open Society Institute, and Annie E. Casey Foundation)

4.5.10 Low Income and Impoverished Families Pay Disproportionately More for Child Care (Carsey Institute)

4.4.10 Strengthening State Economic Development Systems: A Framework for Change (The Working Poor Families Project)

4.1.10 More Homeless Families in Texas (KUT)

3.31.10 Audit Finds Applying for Programs in Texas Often Overwhelming (Texans Care Newsroom)

3.29.10 Senate Agriculture Committee Approves Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act (Voices for America's Children)

3.29.10 U.S. Can Learn from Britain's Battle Against Child Poverty (MediaNewswire)

3.29.10 Schools Will Again Offer Summer Meals (San Angelo Standard Times)
3.24.10 Escaping from Poverty: Evidence of What Works (The New York Times)
3.18.10 Senator Proposes $4.5 Billion for Child Nutrition (TheWashington Post)

3.15.10 Thin Wallets, Thick Waistlines: New USDA Effort Targets Link between Obesity and Food Stamps (Scientific American)

3.10.10 The Federal Payday Lending Exemption (The Huffington Post)

3.12.10 Progress in Connecting Texas Kids with School Lunches, Food Stamps, and Other Resources (Multiple Sources)

3.8.10 Texas Education Agency to Rethink Cuts for Pregnant, Parenting Teens (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)

3.3.10 Financial Literacy, Schools, and the Path to Better Economic Outcomes in Texas(Texans Care News)

3.2.10 U.S. Plans New Measure for Poverty (New York Times)

3.2.10 Key Texas Food Stamp Official is Reassigned (Austin American-Statesman)

3.1.10 Food Stamp System Changed to Help Texas Food Banks (Associated Press)

2.24.10 Goal: Feed More Children (San Angelo Standard-Times)

2.23.10 Census Risks Overlooking Rural Americans (Carsey Institute)

2.19.10 New Research and Resources about How Tax Policy Can Help Low-Income Texans (Multiple Sources)

2.17.10 HISD Breakfast Program Aids Student Achievement (Houston Chronicle)
2.13.10 Almost 25% of Children in Bexar Live in Poverty (San Antonio Express-News)

2.13.10 Assets for Independence Grant Funding Available (U.S. Office of Community Services – Asset-Building)

2.6.10 Earned Income Tax Credit Can Help Families, Stimulate the Texas Economy (Texas Comptroller's Office)
2.4.10 Number of Children Receiving Food Pantry Assistance Up 50% Since 2006 (Multiple Sources)

2.2.10 U.S. to Poor: Stand Up and Be Counted (Dallas Morning News)

2.2.10 An Analysis of the 2011 Federal Budget Proposal for Nutrition (Food Research and Action Center)

2.2.10 Food Stamp Backlog: State Slow to Work Off? (Dallas Morning News)

2.2.10 Families of the Recession: Unemployed Parents (Brookings Center on Children and Families)

2.1.10 New Documentary Helps Families Build Credit for Life (Annie E. Casey Foundation)

2.1.10 USDA Holding Summer Food Service Program Webinars This Month (USDA Food and Nutrition Services)
 

 

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