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Download full textCoda Rayo-Garza; Kaitlan Wong; Sarah Serpas; Sammy Cervantes; Sofia Calderon – Every Texan, 2025
The well-being of Texas children is essential to the future of our state. Recent years have presented significant challenges for Texas' youngest residents, particularly in areas of economic stability, health, and education. According to the Annie E. Casey Foundation, Texas declined from 43rd to 45th in national rankings for overall child…
Descriptors: Well Being, Health Insurance, Child Health, Racial Differences
First Focus, 2018
Each year, effective federal programs give parents the power to provide their children with affordable healthcare, nutritious food, stable housing, and early childhood education. These programs lift millions of children out of poverty, but also have long-term benefits--children in families who accessed these programs have higher educational…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Federal Legislation, Barriers, Program Effectiveness
Direct linkBarnes, Mitchell; Bauer, Lauren; Edelberg, Wendy; Estep, Sara; Greenstein, Robert; Macklin, Moriah – Hamilton Project, 2021
This paper examines the U.S. social insurance system, which we define broadly to include both programs supported by dedicated taxes and other federal programs that provide income support, assistance in meeting basic needs, or services to improve economic opportunity. The paper considers the social insurance system as a whole as well as its…
Descriptors: Welfare Services, Public Policy, Federal Programs, Economic Opportunities
Peer reviewedDuncan, Greg, Ed.; Le Menestrel, Suzanne, Ed. – National Academies Press, 2019
The strengths and abilities children develop from infancy through adolescence are crucial for their physical, emotional, and cognitive growth, which in turn help them to achieve success in school and to become responsible, economically self-sufficient, and healthy adults. Capable, responsible, and healthy adults are clearly the foundation of a…
Descriptors: Poverty, Intervention, Well Being, United States History
Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families, Little Rock. – 2000
This Kids Count special report examines the relationship between poverty status and the number of children in Arkansas lacking health insurance. The report also presents information on two programs providing health care to Arkansas children whose parents lack insurance coverage, Medicaid and ARKids First. The report describes how these two…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Health, Children, Federal Programs
Almeida, Ruth A.; Kenney, Genevieve M. – 2000
Data from the 1997 National Survey of America's Families (NSAF) are analyzed to estimate the number and composition of children lacking health insurance prior to the implementation of the State Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP). The NSAF is a survey of children and adults under the age of 65 in more than 44,000 households, conducted as…
Descriptors: Access to Health Care, Children, Federal Programs, Health Insurance
