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InfographicSequestration in the States
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InteractiveElections Performance Index
Recent RESEARCH & ANALYSIS
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May 10, 2010
States Buying Smarter
This May 2010 report and issue brief explored the purchasing and contracting practices in Minnesota and Virginia.
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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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- Pre-K Now
Formula for Success
This report discussed the benefits and challenges integrating early education into states’ general education funding structures and explored the different models for employing such a strategy. more
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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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- Economic Mobility Project
Welfare Reform and Intergenerational Mobility
This 2010 report reviewed research on the impact of the 1996 welfare reform law on the economic mobility of TANF recipients and their children. The review found that research investigating the impact of welfare reform on the economic outcomes of children was limited, but the research that did exist showed no evidence that children had seen large benefits or harm as a result of the legislation.
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- Election Initiatives
Assessing Electoral Performance in New Mexico
This April 2010 study provided an in-depth, systematic examination of New Mexico’s election ecosystem. Additionally, it offered administrative and legislative recommendations for New Mexico that would inform any state looking to improve the efficiency of its entire election process.
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- Fiscal Federalism Initiative
A Year or More
The challenge of long-term unemployment has persisted over the last year, even as the overall unemployment rate has improved somewhat. A Year or More: The High Cost of Long-Term Unemployment, a report released by the Pew Fiscal Analysis Initiative in April 2010, found that in December 2009, 23 percent of the 14.7 million unemployed had been out of work for a year or longer.
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- Election Initiatives
Non-Precinct Place Voting
In 2008, Make Voting Work released a Request for Proposals for research that would examine alternatives to precinct-based election day voting, including early in-person and absentee voting and vote by mail systems.
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- Election Initiatives
Online Voter Registration
This March 2010 report provided a comprehensive examination of the implementation, operation, public confidence and usage of online voter registration in Arizona and Washington.
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- Pre-K Now
The Case for Pre-K in Education Reform
This brief from Pre-K Now highlighted findings from evaluations of state-funded pre-k programs that continue to document gains in key measures of student learning, including early literacy, math and vocabulary; reduced need for special and remedial education; and significantly lower incidences of grade retention. more