Big Ideas for Job Creation A Policy Brief Highlighting Job Creating Initiatives This report highlights a UC Berkeley project that gathered expert ideas nationwide to develop innovative job creation proposals. Read More
Building Assets, Strengthening Families in Baltimore This report highlights Casey’s financial stability efforts in Baltimore and Maryland, offering insights for others supporting low-income families. Read More
The Re-Emergence of Concentrated Poverty Metropolitan Trends in the 2000s Despite 1990s growth, concentrated poverty persisted. Slower 2000s growth and a major downturn led to rising extreme poverty in many neighborhoods. Read More
Defining Group Care Programs An index of reporting standards This paper calls for new group care reporting standards to clarify what works, improve practices and bring needed nuance to youth services. Read More
Overstressed Kids Examining the Impact of Economic Insecurity on Children and Families This report takes all the factors associated with family economic stress and explain how they could affect the growth and development of children. Read More
No Place for Kids The Case for Reducing Juvenile Incarceration The case against youth prisons and training schools is clear: they are dangerous, ineffective, unnecessary, wasteful and inadequate. Learn more. Read More
Women and Men Living on the Edge Economic Insecurity After the Great Recession A 2010 survey shows many Americans still felt financially insecure and frustrated even after the Great Recession’s official end. Learn more. Read More
Restoring Shared Prosperity Strategies to Cut Poverty and Expand Economic Growth This report examines the Half in Ten campaign’s priorities for addressing economic challenges facing U.S. families. Read More
How Human Services Programs and Their Clients Can Benefit from National Health Reform Legislation This report shows how the Affordable Care Act helps agencies streamline systems so low-income families get all the services they’re eligible for. Read More
The Working Poor Families Project Strengthening Workplace Education Program Policies to Enable Low-Wage Workers' Advancement This brief revisits past workplace education programs and highlights others that build basic skills, literacy and English language proficiency. Read More
