Two workers wearing green shirts and blue pants work underneath a car in an automobile factory. There are assembly lines, partially constructed cars, tools and electrical equipment in the background.
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Workers who are caregivers to children or other dependents often face considerable hardships as they try to meet their caregiving obligations while performing their jobs. In San Francisco, workers will soon have a potential avenue to address these issues.
Head Start (HS) and Early Head Start (EHS) provide poor children and their families with vitally important early education and family support services.
On September 30, CLASP submitted comments to the U.S. Senate Finance Committee in response to their letter soliciting recommendations on how to improve the mental health system.
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) released its world report of the Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC), comparing the skill levels of adult workers across 24 developed countries.
A recent National Bureau of Economic Research report examines the impact of student eligibility for a need-based state grant program in Florida on student outcomes by comparing eligible recipients to those just below the income eligibility cutoff.
Direct care workers who provide home care assistance to older adults and people with illnesses and disabilities xe2x80" have long been excluded from minimum wage and overtime protections enjoyed by most other classes of workers.
Since the early part of the decade, the number of young children (those from birth to 5 years of age ) living in poverty in the United States has been climbing.