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Rx Kids, the nation’s first community-wide prenatal and infant cash program, has improved infant health, reduced evictions, and achieved a high return on investment. Now, with new state commitments, it will reach about one-third of all births statewi...

Ford School professor and director of Poverty Solutions, Luke Shaefer coauthored an article for the US News and World Report with Mona Hanna about how to end child poverty. They say the solution to the housing and childcare affordability crises "alre...

Natasha Pilkauskas, Ford School professor talked with the New York Times about the child tax credit helping some mothers leave unwanted partners. She said, "It’s a positive outcome if you don’t have to live together after you’ve broken up,” and the t...

The pandemic has forced many working mothers to leave the workforce and instead care for their children at home. The issue as the world opens back up: how can those women return to the workforce. "Returnships", or programs that offer training, experi...

"The drop in female labor-force participation was quite dismal and not surprising with the return back to school not happening,” said Stevenson. “Sacrificing market skills to help your family comes at a really big cost... and potentially causes tensi...

In his latest New York Times Upshot editorial, Justin Wolfers took aim at a recent study on parenting time by mothers that has garnered widespread national media coverage. The study, “Does the Amount of Time Mothers Spend With Children or Adolescents...