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Backgrounder | January 1, 1998
The President's Child Care Initiative
By Margy Waller
The federal government has a legitimate role to play in helping families. First, public policy should reward work by ensuring that no family with a full-time worker lives in poverty. Second, very poor working parents should receive the same tax breaks as low- and moderate-income families. And these parents should be empowered to use the additional household income to choose the means of providing care for their children.
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DLC Update | July 29, 1997
Survey Shows States Hit and Miss on Child Care
By Margy Waller
Nearly one year after enactment of landmark welfare reform legislation, states are beginning to show the direction they will take in replacing the old welfare system. Caseload reduction statistics continue to dominate the sparse national news about developments in various states.
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Backgrounder | March 1, 1996
Blueprint for Change: Reducing Teen Pregnancy
By Kathleen Sylvester
A progressive strategy to solving teen pregnancy should embrace these tenets: Communities working together to offer new opportunities to teens at risk of becoming parents too soon. Private and public assistance to teen parents conditioned on responsible parenting. And government engagement of communities in solving the problem.
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Briefing | June 1, 1995
GOP Cuts in the EITC
By M. Jeff Hamond and Lyn A. Hogan
Despite the GOP's strong past support for the EITC, some Republicans now charge that the program is too costly, ineffective, and rife with fraud. If conservatives are serious about promoting work by low-income families and ensuring that full-time workers escape poverty --
prerequisites for successful welfare reform -- they will help preserve this program.
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Policy Report | September 27, 1990
Putting Children First: A Progressive Family Policy for the 1990s
By Elaine Ciulla Kamarck and William A. Galston
We need a progressive child-centered family policy that both acknowledges new realities and affirms enduring values.
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Policy Report | February 1, 1990
An American Working Wage
By Robert J. Shapiro
A Working Wage guarantee should be part of a progressive compact which provides every American who works hard the real opportunity to live in dignity and the real prospect for upward mobility.
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Abstract | June 1, 1989
Work and Poverty
By Robert J. Shapiro
The federal minimum wage should be replaced as a tool for helping working poor families by an expanded earned income tax credit.
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Memo | October 28, 1990
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