Press Releases
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- Results First
Fact Sheet: Results First
The choices states make today about how to invest their limited resources will dramatically shape our nation’s future. more
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- Economic Mobility Project
Pew Research Uses Housing Boom & Bust to Measure Housing Wealth Impact on College Enrollment and Graduation Rates
A new Pew report, Housing Wealth and Higher Education: Building a Foundation for Economic Mobility, finds that low- and middle-income students whose families experienced increases in housing wealth just before reaching college age were more likely to attend college, more likely to attend higher-quality universities, and more likely to graduate.
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- Safe Checking in the Electronic Age
Chase, North Carolina State Employees' Credit Union, and Pentagon Federal Credit Union Adopt Pew's Simple Account Terms Disclosure Form
The Safe Checking in the Electronic Age Project applauds Chase, North Carolina State Employees’ Credit Union, and Pentagon Federal Credit Union for voluntarily adopting Pew’s model checking account disclosure form. more
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- Home Visiting Campaign
Briefing Recognizes Importance of Home Visiting Programs
A congressional briefing held November 16, 2011, recognized the importance of investing in evidence-based home visitation programs. more
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- Home Visiting Campaign
Watch a Home Visit
What is home visiting? This photo and audio tour provides an intimate glimpse into voluntary parent mentoring programs. more
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- Home Visiting Campaign
Voluntary Home Visiting Gives Parents and Children a Boost, Even Before Birth
Some of our nation’s costliest social problems are rooted in early childhood. Increasingly, states are turning to proven strategies like high-quality home visitation to prevent them. Read our fact sheet to learn more. more
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- Home Visiting Campaign
Pew: Competitive Grant Awards Show States’ Commitment
Libby Doggett, director of the Pew Home Visiting Campaign, an initiative of the Pew Center on the States, released a statement in response to the first round of competitive grants awarded in the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program.
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- Pre-K Now
Pew Convenes Education Leaders to Chart Course for Pre-K-12 Future
The Pew Center on the States’ Pre-K Now campaign today brought together education leaders, advocates, business leaders, and national and state policy makers to celebrate significant accomplishments in the pre-k movement and highlight Pre-K Now’s capstone report, Transforming Public Education: Pathway to a Pre-K-12 Future.
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- Economic Mobility Project
Pew Finds Many Children Fall Out of the Middle Class As Adults
A middle-class upbringing does not guarantee the same status as an adult, according to a new report by Pew’s Economic Mobility Project, Downward Mobility from the Middle Class: Waking Up from the American Dream. more
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- Home Visiting Campaign
Pew: States Should Invest in Research-Backed Home Visiting Programs to Capitalize on New Federal Funds
States making investments in voluntary home visiting programs too rarely use evidence of effectiveness to inform their policy decisions, according to a new report by the Pew Center on the States’ Home Visiting Campaign.
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