Economic Security
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Issue Brief: Reduce Poverty and Promote Opportunity
2009
More than 37 million people in the United States, including 13.3 million children, currently live below the official poverty level. This issue brief outlines specific federal policy recommendations for reducing poverty and promoting opportunity.
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Fueling Fair Practices: A Road Map to Improved Public Policy For Used Car Sales and Financing
2009
This report, funded by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, examines the importance of car ownership as it relates to families’ economic productivity and self-sufficiency, as well as highlights the problems and inequities existing in the current used car sales market. Also included in this report are recommendations at the state and federal level so as to insure that more working-class families have their own transportation to and from work.
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Still Working Hard, Still Falling Short: New Findings on the Challenges Confronting America’s Workers
2008
This analysis of U.S. Census data indicates that many Americans are facing great challenges to economic advancement in the face of government policies that have not been aimed at strengthening families. As a result, this brief includes suggestions on how the government can adopt public polices that develop adult workers so that they can participate in the workforce and thereby strengthen their families.
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Growing Up in North America: The Economic Well-Being of Children in Canada, the United States, and Mexico (English)
2008
The third in a series of reports, this document concludes that globalization has contributed to rising incomes in Canada, the United States, and Mexico but has not improved economic security for vulnerable children across the three countries. The data-rich report finds tremendous differences in the economic well-being of the 120 million children living in North America, but also many shared experiences. Casey published this report as a partner in the Children in North America Project, a tri-national project that aims to highlight the condition and well-being of children and youth across this region. The reports are available in English, French, and Spanish.
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Children’s Stake in Social Security
2008
This report, funded by the Casey Foundation and released by the nonprofit, nonpartisan National Academy of Social Insurance, highlights the importance of Social Security to the well-being of children.
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Fueling Fair Practices: A Road Map to Improved Public Policy For Used Car Sales and Financing (Executive Summary)
2009
This executive summary highlights a new report from the National Consumer Law Center on the problems and inequities existing in the current used car sales market and how it impacts families' economic stability.
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Principles for State Implementation of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
2009
With states preparing to allocate money through the federal Recovery and Reinvestment Act, several nonprofit organizations came together to outline several principles that states should embrace to ensure that the stimulus money helps stabilize the economy. This guide contains those recommendations as well as includes a listing of endorsing organizations.
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Directory of Federal Funding Sources for Adult Education
2009
In Reach Higher, America the National Commission on Adult Literacy documents that existing federal adult education, training and English language programs reach only 3 million adults a year out of an estimated 88 million adults with at least one educational barrier. Given the lack of funding available for high quality services, the Casey Foundation commissioned Abt Associates to update their 2004 report on federal funding for adult basic education. This comprehensive guide is intended to highlight all of the potential federal fiscal resources available to support adult basic education.
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Building “The Good Life”: Investing in Opportunities for Nebraska’s Families, Communities, and Economy
2009
One in four families in Nebraska is low-income and struggling to make it in this difficult time. According to this report by the Nebraska Appleseed Center for Law in the Public Interest, Nebraska’s economy will only thrive in this economic recession and be able to compete with other states in the future if the state is able to create more opportunities for working families. As a result, this report calls for new efforts to promote the growth of quality jobs and bolster workers' skills through education.
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Action Brief—Foreclosure: How Can Philanthropy Help?
2009
Foreclosure can impact an individual’s employment stability, the ability of children to remain in their current schools, and a family’s ability to maintain and sustain longtime neighborhood ties and social networks. This action brief details the ways that families are adversely affected by foreclosures as well as highlights the Casey Foundation’s response to this problem.
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