Scholarship on families in poverty, in the last decade, documented various struggles and
challenges faced by low-income families and expanded our understanding of their …

Child care access shapes parental involvement in the workforce, and inherently families'
economic security. Given the well-supported relationships between family economic stress …

Parents' selections of child care arrangements involve complex decisions made in the
context of child and family needs, resources and constraints. This study analyzed data from …

Federal child-care subsidies through the Child Care and Development Fund support low-
income parents' employment and their children's development. However, unstable patterns …

Globally, employment rates of women remain substantially below those of men. Since
women disproportionately care for children, policies that offer care alternatives or lower the …

The federal child care subsidy program reduces child care costs for eligible low-income
families to facilitate parental employment and educational attainment. Using national data …

Abstract Families living in homeless shelters with young children (birth-36 months) face a
variety of complex challenges which make it difficult to locate and maintain child care …

Child care subsidies aim to promote economic stability and child development by reducing
child care costs for low-income families. However, short and intermittent use of the subsidy …

This study examines the perspectives of a sample of parents and primary caregivers who
received child care subsidies through New Mexico's at-risk eligibility designation, which is …

Employment and earnings instability is common, particularly among low-income families,
and can interfere with child-care arrangements. Child-care subsidies are designed to …