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How big is your retirement package? Benefits from government retirement programs—Social Security and Medicare—vary over time, but the trend has been toward higher lifetime benefits for each successive cohort. Expansion derives mainly from increases in real annual benefits, more years of benefits through longer lifespans, and better and more expensive health care. In 1960, a couple where ...

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Introduction When there is evidence of racial and ethnic differences at any point in the service delivery spectrum—for example, in access to and take-up of human services, in the nature and quality of services received, or in the outcomes of services—it can be challenging to interpret what those differences mean. In particular, it can be challenging to understand whether and to what extent ...

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Social networks are powerful influences in the lives of low-income immigrants. Use of these naturally occurring networks to disseminate information, enroll families in services, and build trust is a successful and relatively low-cost approach to increasing immigrants’ access to health and human services.

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States make many decisions that affect working parents. This paper compiles policy data that cover four types of state decisions: job-protected family care policies, child care subsidies, early childhood education and elementary school schedules, and tax policy. The collection of policies summarizes useful information in each of the four areas. Each section of the report discusses how ...

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the Positive Action program42 (a school-based, social-emotional and character education program for students in grades K- 12) indicate that this intervention reduces school misconduct, truancy, bullying, early sexual activity, and substance use. The program also was found to have

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Housing units, July 1, 2019, (V2019) X: Owner-occupied housing unit rate, 2015-2019: 59.0%: Median value of owner-occupied housing units, 2015-2019

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Critics of the welfare system claim that the system does not provide sufficient state flexibility, does not encourage work, contributes to the breakdown of the family, and has done little to reduce poverty. This report examines the truth of these propositions and assesses the ability of a variety of proposals designed to deal with the complaints.

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As it confronts the COVID-19 pandemic, the US faces what could be its worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. A successful government response to the economic consequences of the pandemic is critical for sustaining families’ health and well-being and allowing families to remain housed as major sectors of the economy remain closed. The success of this response will partly depend on ...

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QuickFacts United States; Colorado Springs city, Colorado. QuickFacts provides statistics for all states and counties, and for cities and towns with a population of 5,000 or more.

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I The Status of Women and Girls in Colorado This report was generously funded by The Women’s Foundation of Colorado (The WFCO). The WFCO and the Institute for Women’s Policy R