This 2009 KIDS COUNT Data Brief features highlights of the enhanced, mobile-friendly Data Center; data on the 10 key indicators of child well-being for all U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and many cities, counties, and school districts; and a summary of this year's essay, which calls for improvements to the nation's ability to design and…

The New Chance national demonstration project is designed to help disadvantaged 17- to 21-year-old mothers and their children achieve economic self-sufficiency and optimal physical and psychological development and thereby to curtail the perpetuation of intergenerational poverty. The New Chance model provides a variety of services to meet the…

This hearing, the third of three on welfare reform, focuses on the problem of child support and ways to improve the current system. One child in four now lives with a single parent; these children must receive the support that they are due. The hearings also focused on the problems of unemployed parents, and how the welfare system can help prepare…