One Percent for the Kids : New Policies, Brighter Futures for America's Children /
This volume argues that the life prospects of children can be improved substantially by reallocating one per cent of the gross domestic product to children's programmes. Each chapter contains a specific proposal for change, as well as information about the rationale and cost of the initiative.
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Washington, D.C. :
Brookings Institution Press,
2003.
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Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Promoting the healthy development of young children / Greg J. Duncan and Katherine Magnuson
- When work alone is not enough / Robert Haveman
- Preventing early childbearing / Andrea Kane and Isabel V. Sawhill
- Strengthening fragile families / Irwin Garfinkel and Sara McLanahan
- Family policy and academic achievement / David J. Armor
- Providing universal preschool for four-year-olds / Barbara Wolfe and Scott Scrivner
- Improving neighborhoods for poor children / Jens Ludwig
- The Blair government and child poverty : an extra one percent for children in the United Kingdom / John Hills.