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Lack of Protection for Home Care Workers: Overtime Pay and Minimum Wage
2012
This brief examines overtime hours and hourly wages among home health aides and personal care aides (many of whom are not currently covered by the FLSA), and compares them with hospital aides and nursing home aides, a group that is typically covered by the FLSA.
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Youth and Work: Restoring Teen and Young Adult Connections to Opportunity
2012
In this KIDS COUNT policy report, the Casey Foundation finds that nearly 6.5 million U.S. teens and young adults are neither in school nor in the workforce. With employment among young people at its lowest levels since the 1950s, these youth are veering toward chronic unemployment as adults and failing to gain the skills employers need in the 21st century. In addition to new national and state data on the issue, the report offers recommendations to support youth in gaining a stronger foothold in the economy.
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Weathering the Recession: The Financial Crisis and Family Wealth Changes in Low-Income Neighborhoods
2012
Assets help families meet short-term needs and attain long-term goals, assisting them in weathering financial crises — job loss or unexpected bills — and realizing goals such as owning a home, financing retirement or investing in higher education or a small business. The recent financial crisis has shown both the importance of asset building and that it is by no means a risk-free proposition. This report sheds more light on how families have fared during the Great Recession, looking more closely at those living in low-income neighborhoods who may see disproportionate effects from the crisis due to targeted subprime lending, less access to traditional credit sources and higher unemployment rates. It uses the variation in household and neighborhood characteristics within and across several low-income neighborhoods that were part of the Foundation’s Making Connections initiative to identify the families most affected by the crisis and examines the relationship between household and place characteristics and changes in wealth.
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Children's Budget 2012
2012
This report details how children in America will fare in the FY 2012 budget.
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The Road to Better Results: Targeting Capacity Building and Philanthropic Partnerships
2012
This report describes the Annie E. Casey Foundation's experience in building the capacity of grantees to utilize a results framework in their work with children and families. Beginning in 2007, the Foundation instructed grantees in New Haven, Connecticut, in the use of its Results-based Accountability (RBA) model to align nonprofit leaders in advancing shared outcomes related to family economic stability. This report captures the community's journey in this effort.
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