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Solving Social Ills Through Early Childhood Home Visiting
The Pew Home Visiting Campaign presents 12 studies highlighting gains in education, health and future livelihoods at less cost to taxpayers through home visiting. more
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- Home Visiting Campaign
Home Visiting: A Closer Look
Extra support from voluntary, high-quality home visiting services can lead to improved family health and substantial savings for taxpayers. more
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December 13, 2010
Dental Care Remains Largest Unmet Health Need
Hiring new types of providers can be a win-win for private dental practices, allowing them to serve more low-income children while maintaining their financial bottom line. more
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- Children's Dental Campaign
It Takes A Team
This 2010 report was the first to examine the impact that hiring new types of dental providers—dental therapists and hygienists-therapists—could have on both the productivity and profits of a private dental practice, where more than 90 percent of the nation’s dentists work.
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States and the New Federal Home Visiting Initiative
In 2010, the Pew Center on the States surveyed state agency leaders in an effort to inventory state home visiting programs in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
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September 28, 2010
Collateral Costs
Collateral Costs: Incarceration’s Effect on Economic Mobility was a collaborative effort between the Pew Charitable Trusts' Economic Mobility Project and its Public Safety Performance Project (PSPP). The 2010 report examined the impact of incarceration on the economic opportunity and mobility of former inmates and their families. more
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- Children's Dental Campaign
Expanding Children's Access to Dental Care: The Minnesota Story
This 2010 brief explained how advocates campaigned successfully for a law licensing new dental providers, and the lessons this campaign offers to policy makers who want to expand dental coverage to underserved children in their state. more
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How Utah Came to Own a Half-Built City in the Desert
When the recession drove a Western developer out of the real estate business, an obscure state land agency was left with a choice: Either buy out the developer or let someone else do it. The agency's decision will take years to pay off.Part two in a series.more -
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- Children's Dental Campaign
Washington's ABCD Program
This 2010 Pew Center on the States report looked at how dental care remains the greatest unmet need for health services among children.
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- Home Visiting Campaign
The Case for Home Visiting
This 2010 report examined how voluntary home visiting programs match parents with trained professionals to provide information and assistance during pregnancy and throughout their child's first three years. The report found that this support not only helps families thrive, but saves states money on costly social problems.
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- Economic Mobility Project
Family Structure and the Economic Mobility of Children
This report explores the relationship between parental marital status and intergenerational economic mobility. It finds that, across the income distribution, divorce is particularly harmful for children's economic mobility in both absolute and relative terms.
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