The Commitment to End Child Poverty: Developments in the UK & US

Resources

Center for Law and Social Policy

The UK Commitment: Ending Child Poverty by 2020 , Elisa Minoff, (January 30, 2006)
http://www.clasp.org/publications/uk_childpoverty.pdf

Ending Child Poverty:The UK Commitment and the US Challenge, Elisa Minoff, powerpoint presentation delivered January 2006, updated June 2006.

http://www.clasp.org/audio/061606/UKPowerpoint061606.ppt

A Plan to End Child Poverty: Britain’s Initiative Has Helped 700,000 Kids. Why Don’t We Have a Goal, Too? Mark Greenberg, and Jared Bernstein (EPI). In an (April 3, 2006) editorial printed in the Washington Post.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/02/AR2006040201091.html

Other Resources

A “Third Way ” in Welfare Reform? Evidence from the United Kingdom, John Hills, Jane Waldfogel, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Vol.23,No.4, 765 –788 (2004)

http://www.clasp.org/audio/061606/AThirdWayinWelfareReformEvidencefromtheUK.pdf

Family expenditures post-welfare reform in the UK: Are low-income families starting to catch up? Paul Gregg, Jane Waldfogel, Elizabeth Washbrook, (September 23, 2005) Elsevier Editorial System(tm) for Labour Economics, Manuscript Number: LABECO-D-05-00072R1

http://www.clasp.org/audio/061606/UK.expenditurespaper.pdf

Social Mobility, Life Chances, and the Early Years, Jane Waldfogel, (November 2004) Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, London School of Economics, CASEpaper 88, ISSN 1460-5023
http://www.clasp.org/audio/061606/SocialMobilityLifeChancesAnd TheCASEPaper88.pdf

Welfare Reform and Family Expenditures: How are Single Mothers Adapting to the New Welfare and Work Regime? Neeraj Kaushal, Qin Gao, Jane Waldfogel, Paper prepared for presentation at the National Poverty Center Conference on Consumption, Income, and the Well-Being of Families and Children Washington, DC May 4-5, 2006
http://www.clasp.org/audio/061606/US.expenditurespaper.pdf