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Health Care for Immigrant Families: Current Policies and Issues
WASHINGTON – Low-income immigrant children are less likely than their U.S.-born citizen counterparts to see a doctor even when they are insured. Similarly, immigrant adults are less likely to use emergency rooms than low-income natives, a new Migration Policy Institute (MPI) report that examines health care coverage and usage among immigrants and the U.S. born finds. Read more...
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Immigration Reform: Building Fences With Shadows or Bridges of Hope and Dreams?
The Southwest is a place of great opportunity, enchantment, and grandeur, and yet, also a place of poverty and inequality in the United States. Through its children, it is also a place that will play an expanding and critically important role in either the successes or failures of our nation. In fact, the border region (defined here as the seven states of California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Nevada, Utah, and Colorado) accounts for: Read more...
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Free ICPSR Data Workshop! Coordinated Data Analysis: Maximizing Early Care and Education Data
As part of their Summer Program, ICPSR is hosting a free data training workshop regarding coordinated data analysis. Read more...
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New York Times: Studies that Highlight Benefits of Early Ed
Investments in Education May Be MisdirectedBy EDUARDO PORTERJames Heckman is one of the nation’s top economists studying human development. Thirteen years ago, he shared the Nobel for economics. In February, he stood before the annual meeting of the Nebraska Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Read more...
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Unauthorized Immigrant Parents and Their Children’s Development
A new report from the Migration Policy Institute by Hirokazu Yoshikawa and Jenya Kholoptseva considers how parental unauthorized status affects child development. Read more...
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The Dilemma of Cultural Responsiveness and Professionalization
VIDEO: Watch FCD Young Scholar Jennifer Keys Adair discuss her co-authored paper, “The Dilemma of Cultural Responsiveness and Professionalization: Listening Closer to Immigrant Teachers Who Teach Children of Recent Immigrants.” Read more...
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Renewing Our Vision for America's Children
The promise of this nation is that our young people will be provided an equal opportunity to fulfill their full potential. Unfortunately, over 16 million or more than 1 in 5 of our nation's children live in poverty, nearly 8 million children lack health insurance coverage, the U.S. has the 2nd worst infant mortality rate among industrialized nations, over 1 million students are homeless, over 750,000 children are abused and neglected annually, and over 1 in 5 students drop out before graduating from high school.We can and must do better. Read more...
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2012 Child Well-Being Index
The 2012 Annual Release of the CWI reports that American families’ economic decline preceded the recession, jeopardizing both middle class and low income children. Read more...
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Young Children of Black Immigrants in America: Changing Flows, Changing Faces
Young Children of Black Immigrants in America: Changing Flows, Changing FacesLISTEN TO THE EVENT AUDIO Read more...
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Filling a Gap in Knowledge
There are 1.3 million children in Black immigrant families in the United States, most with parents from Africa and the Caribbean. The Children account for 11 percent of all Black children in America and represent a rapidly growing segment of the U.S. population; yet they remain neglected by research. Read more...
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