Promoting the healthy development of young children / Greg J. Duncan and Katherine Magnuson -- When work alone is not enough / Robert Haveman -- Preventing early childbearing / Andrea Kane and Isabel V. Sawhill -- Strengthening fragile families / Irwin Garfinkel and Sara McLanahan -- Family policy and academic achievement / David J. Armor -- Providing universal preschool for four-year-olds / Barbara Wolfe and Scott Scrivner -- Improving neighborhoods for poor children / Jens Ludwig -- The Blair government and child poverty : an extra one percent for children in the United Kingdom / John Hills.
Summary
This volume argues that the life prospects of children can be improved substantially by reallocating one per cent of the gross domestic product to children's programmes. Each chapter contains a specific proposal for change, as well as information about the rationale and cost of the initiative.
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