Mortar and Muscle Building Community and Assets Through Self-Help Housing This brief looks at the experiences of families working together to build their own homes through self-help housing programs. Read More
Katrina's Window Confronting Concentrated Poverty Across America Hurricane Katrina’s assault on New Orleans’ most vulnerable residents and neighborhoods reinvigorated a dialogue on race and class in America. This paper argues that the conversation should focus special attention on alleviating this outdated concentrated urban poverty—the segregation of poor families into extremely distressed neighborhoods. Read More
A Jobs Initiative Research Brief Approaches to Measuring and Tracking Career Advancement This research brief explores the findings and challenges of data collected over an eight-year period on thousands of individuals who were placed in jobs through the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s Jobs Initiative. Read More
City Profiles of Child Well-Being Results From the American Community Survey This report looks at five indicators of child well-being for the 50-largest U.S. cities. Explore the data now. Read More
Business Leaders' Perceptions of KIDS COUNT This report summarizes data showing how business leaders in Fortune 1000 companies perceive and use the KIDS COUNT Data Books. Read More
Flipping the Script: White Privilege and Community Building This report defines and explores the issues of white privilege and racism across the United States in community building work. Read More
Educating English Language Learners: Understanding and Using Assessment This guide, originally for charter schools, prepares schools to better assess the effectiveness of their English Language Learners (ELL) program and increase educators’ awareness of tools, instruments and relevant resources. Read More
A House of Cards: Refinancing the American Dream Borrowing to Make Ends Meet Due to ever-increasing financial pressures, families often depend on high-cost credit as a way to bridge the gap between stagnant or decreasing incomes and rising costs. This third brief in the Borrowing to Make Ends Meet series examines rising debt and debt burdens, as well as the consequences of leveraging equity. Read More
A Work in Progress Case Studies in Changing Local Workforce Development Systems This report evaluates the Jobs Initiative, Casey's six-city, eight-year effort to engage local institutions and stakeholders while identifying ways to improve workforce development services for disadvantaged job seekers. The ultimate goal was to find improved workforce development approaches and create large-scale, system-wide change. Read More
The High Cost of Being Poor Issue Brief #7 Child Care Subsidies This brief explores one topic: child care subsidies in Virginia. It examines who’s eligible and how the state can do better to make child care and school more affordable for working parents in need. It is both a product of the Casey Foundation’s “The High Cost of Being Poor” forums and the seventh installment in a series that shares strategies on advocating for low-income families across America. Read More
