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After-School Programs and Students’ Academic Behavior in New Jersey: Current Situation and Future Development

2023-09-18T09:52:23-04:00

By Xiao Liang After-school programs in the United States can be traced back to the late 19th century, developed from historical changes in children’s participation in the labor force market, the introduction of formal schooling [...]

After-School Programs and Students’ Academic Behavior in New Jersey: Current Situation and Future Development2023-09-18T09:52:23-04:00

Report Release: Analyzing Child-Care Provider Subsidies in New Jersey: Issues, Impacts, and Options

2023-08-07T08:41:35-04:00

By Andrea Hetling. Public child-care subsidies are designed to reduce the financial burdens of child care for households that meet certain income thresholds in order to improve employment and/or educational opportunities for parents and other legal guardians. In New Jersey, child-care subsidy payments [...]

Report Release: Analyzing Child-Care Provider Subsidies in New Jersey: Issues, Impacts, and Options2023-08-07T08:41:35-04:00

Report Release: Youth Mental Health in New Jersey: Current Status and Opportunities for Improved Services

2023-08-07T12:21:24-04:00

By Karen Lowrie and Brooke Schwartzman. Teens of today have faced major shifts in societal, environmental, community, familial, and individual spheres, heightened by racial and school-based violence and the COVID-19 pandemic, creating challenges [...]

Report Release: Youth Mental Health in New Jersey: Current Status and Opportunities for Improved Services2023-08-07T12:21:24-04:00

Report Release: The Status of New Jersey’s Childcare Infrastructure

2023-08-07T12:20:43-04:00

By Jocelyn Fischer and Debra Lancaster. While children, parents, and employers have felt the sting of childcare market failures for several decades, deficiencies in the market were made more apparent and were more deeply felt as a result of pandemic-related closures and labor shifts [...]

Report Release: The Status of New Jersey’s Childcare Infrastructure2023-08-07T12:20:43-04:00

Youth Mental Health in New Jersey: Current Status and Opportunities for Support Service Improvement

2023-01-26T08:49:15-05:00

By Karen Lowrie and Brooke Schwartzman. Childhood, particularly adolescence, has always been marked by challenges, as youth learn to navigate the world. But times are changing; youth of today have faced major shifts in societal, environmental, community, familial, and individual spheres [...]

Youth Mental Health in New Jersey: Current Status and Opportunities for Support Service Improvement2023-01-26T08:49:15-05:00

Literature Review & Policy Menu: How Can the Government Improve New Jersey Families’ Access to Childcare?

2023-01-19T10:08:21-05:00

By Jocelyn Fischer and Debra Lancaster. Childcare is unaffordable for many families.  The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services deems affordable childcare costs as those that are no more than 7 percent of families’ incomes [...]

Literature Review & Policy Menu: How Can the Government Improve New Jersey Families’ Access to Childcare?2023-01-19T10:08:21-05:00

It’s Time to Disaggregate Data for Asian Americans: Subgroup Differences Among Asian Women

2022-12-19T08:16:06-05:00

By Amanda Hinton In a follow-up to my previous blog post about the dangers of data aggregation for Asian Americans in research, I would like to dive deeper into examining disparities among women. Asian American women experience distinct health outcomes compared to men and like overall Asian aggregated data, when we look more closely at [...]

It’s Time to Disaggregate Data for Asian Americans: Subgroup Differences Among Asian Women2022-12-19T08:16:06-05:00

Data Brief Release: A Supply-Demand Model Informs Childcare Market Deficits in New Jersey: Estimates Point to Need for More Data

2023-08-07T11:38:24-04:00

By Sarah F. Small and Debra Lancaster. Failing childcare markets have been detrimental to the US economy in recent years.[1] We have examined the childcare crisis in New Jersey from both the supply side and the demand side [...]

Data Brief Release: A Supply-Demand Model Informs Childcare Market Deficits in New Jersey: Estimates Point to Need for More Data2023-08-07T11:38:24-04:00
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