Women and Children Last

Women and Children Last

One reason for the relative success of welfare reform in the 1990s was expanded child-care subsidies to women making the shift from welfare to work. Since then, experts have been mining the data, seeking to understand the wide-ranging effects on children when their mothers went back to work. Here, M...

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Veröffentlicht in:The American prospect 2004-09, Vol.15 (9), p.A18
1. Verfasser: McGarvey, Ayelish
Format: Magazinearticle
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
After school programs
Budget deficits
Caregivers
Child care
Children & youth
Costs
Employment
Families & family life
Federal budget
Female employees
Funding
Labor force
Legislation
Low income groups
Mothers
Poverty
Public assistance programs
State budgets
Welfare
Welfare reform
Women
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Zusammenfassung:One reason for the relative success of welfare reform in the 1990s was expanded child-care subsidies to women making the shift from welfare to work. Since then, experts have been mining the data, seeking to understand the wide-ranging effects on children when their mothers went back to work. Here, McGarvey discusses the impact of tax cuts and a weak economy on child care in the US.
ISSN:1049-7285