States

Strengthening State Policies for Working Families

This report by the Working Poor Families Project discusses improving state policies to benefit working families with expanding education and training opportunities, focusing economic development to benefit low-income workers, improving the conditions of employment and strengthening preformance standards and accountability.

State Policy Assessment Reports

This interactive fact sheet by the Working Poor Families Project provides data on the conditions of low-income working families in each state. Click on any state on the interactive map for state-based information.

Child Care and Early Education State-by-State Data.

This set of state-by-state data includes analysis of 2005 child care spending from Child Care Development Block Grant and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families funds and of 2005 Head Start Program Information Report data, along with data on states’ use of community-based child care to provide pre-kindergarten. It also links to profiles of state infant and toddler initiatives highlighted in CLASP’s Starting Off Right report.

State-by-State Family Economic Security Profiles by The National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP)

This document outlines why state policymakers need to pay more attention to low-wage work, its effects on families and children, and what it takes for low-wage workers to make their families economically secure. It also describes a set of State Family Economic Security Profiles that the National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) designed to highlight policy options available to state policymakers, the choices each state has made, and how families are doing economically in all 50 states and the District of Columbia .