A descriptive profile of state Child Care and Development Fund policies in states with high populations of low-income Hispanic children

Hill, Zoelene; Gennetian, Lisa A.; Smith, Joel

doi:10.1016/j.ecresq.2018.10.003

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“…The lack of clarity can deter immigrant families from applying even though their children qualify. 49 Lower Program Participation As a result of exclusionary eligibility, high administrative burden, and other disincentives to participate, immigrant families have significantly lower participation across safety-net programs. 1,15,40 The reach and exclusionary effects of immigrant restrictions are potentially large because 36 percent of children in poverty (3.5 million) live in mixed-status families.…”

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Restoring An Inclusionary Safety Net For Children In Immigrant Families: A Review Of Three Social Policies

Acevedo‐García

Joshi

Ruskin³

et al. 2021

Health Affairs

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Since the enactment of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, known as "welfare reform," in 1996, US social policy has increasingly stratified immigrants by legality, extending eligibility exclusions, benefit limitations, and administrative burdens not only to undocumented immigrants but also to lawful permanent residents and US citizens in immigrant families. This stratification is a form of structural discrimination, which is a social determinant of health. Children in immigrant families, most of whom are US citizens, have not been able to fully realize the benefits from social safety-net programs-including the 2020 Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act stimulus payments. Policy deliberations over pandemic recovery, the equity focus of the Biden administration, and proposals to address child poverty provide an opportunity to reexamine immigrant exclusions, restrictions, and administrative burdens in public programs. We discuss immigrant stratification by legal status in social policy and review how it affects citizen children in mixed-status families in three safety-net programs: the Earned Income Tax Credit, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, and Child Care and Development Block Grant. We provide eight policy recommendations to restore equity to the social safety net for children in immigrant families.

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Restoring An Inclusionary Safety Net For Children In Immigrant Families: A Review Of Three Social Policies

Acevedo‐García

Joshi

Ruskin³

et al. 2021

Health Affairs

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“…Literature on early childhood policy implementation [3] has examined the fidelity of implementation of a curriculum intervention [4][5][6], teacher professional development [7][8][9], and coaching [10,11] that tailor to content-focused instruction or improving classroom quality, in particular, teacher-child instructional interaction. Other scholars have examined the implementation, utilization, and impact of a child care Quality Rating and Improvement System (QRIS) on classroom quality [12] and federal or state early learning grants on underserved populations [13][14][15].…”

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What predicts legislative success of early care and education policies?: Applications of machine learning and Natural Language Processing in a cross-state early childhood policy analysis

Park

Hassairi

2021

PLoS ONE

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Following the pioneering efforts of a federal Head Start program, U.S. state policymakers have rapidly expanded access to Early Care and Education (ECE) programs with strong bipartisan support. Within the past decade the enrollment of 4 year-olds has roughly doubled in state-funded preschool. Despite these public investments, the content and priorities of early childhood legislation–enacted and failed–have rarely been examined. This study integrates perspectives from public policy, political science, developmental science, and machine learning in examining state ECE bills in identifying key factors associated with legislative success. Drawing from the Early Care and Education Bill Tracking Database, we employed Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA), a statistical topic identification model, to examine 2,396 ECE bills across the 50 U.S. states during the 2015-2018. First, a six-topic solution demonstrated the strongest fit theoretically and empirically suggesting two meta policy priorities: ‘ECE finance’ and ‘ECE services’. ‘ECE finance’ comprised three dimensions: (1) Revenues, (2) Expenditures, and (3) Fiscal Governance. ‘ECE services’ also included three dimensions: (1) PreK, (2) Child Care, and (3) Health and Human Services (HHS). Further, we found that bills covering a higher proportion of HHS, Fiscal Governance, or Expenditures were more likely to pass into law relative to bills focusing largely on PreK, Child Care, and Revenues. Additionally, legislative effectiveness of the bill’s primary sponsor was a strong predictor of legislative success, and further moderated the relation between bill content and passage. Highly effective legislators who had previously passed five or more bills had an extremely high probability of introducing a legislation that successfully passed regardless of topic. Legislation with expenditures as policy priorities benefitted the most from having an effective legislator. We conclude with a discussion of the empirical findings within the broader context of early childhood policy literature and suggest implications for future research and policy.

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“…Only 8 percent of eligible Latino children receive subsidies, compared to 13 percent of all eligible children and 21 percent of eligible Black children (Schmit and Walker 2016). Some work suggests barriers to subsidy applications and eligibility are significant for Latino populations and may help to explain differential participation (Hill, Gennetian, and Mendez 2019).…”

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Equitable Access to High-Quality Early Care and Education: Opportunities to Better Serve Young Hispanic Children and Their Families

Smith¹,

Crosby²,

Stephens³

2021

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Scie

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Significant investments in public early childhood care and education (ECE) have yielded higher Hispanic enrollment in preschool-age programs, but progress has been uneven and inconsistent, especially for the youngest Hispanic children and low-income families. We review how ECE has contributed to Hispanic children’s development, offering a detailed review of Hispanic children’s participation in ECE, including evidence of effectiveness from ECE programs such as Early Head Start and Head Start, and state pre-K programs. We conclude with a discussion of why Hispanic children remain underserved by ECE and what policy changes could increase participation in these programs among Hispanics. We argue for expansion of established high-quality ECE into Hispanic-dense communities, for strategies that enroll and retain Latino children in ECE in ways that are family-centered and culturally responsive, and that ECE must adapt to better serve Hispanic families and dual language learners who require culturally appropriate pedagogy.

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A descriptive profile of state Child Care and Development Fund policies in states with high populations of low-income Hispanic children

Cited by 14 publications

References 39 publications

Restoring An Inclusionary Safety Net For Children In Immigrant Families: A Review Of Three Social Policies

Restoring An Inclusionary Safety Net For Children In Immigrant Families: A Review Of Three Social Policies

What predicts legislative success of early care and education policies?: Applications of machine learning and Natural Language Processing in a cross-state early childhood policy analysis

Equitable Access to High-Quality Early Care and Education: Opportunities to Better Serve Young Hispanic Children and Their Families

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