This report to Congress, the first from Mathematica's SCHIP evaluation for ASPE, is based on information collected in 2001. It draws on case studies in six of the ten evaluation states: California, Colorado, Louisiana, Missouri, New York, and Texas. Although current state budget shortfalls...

Notes that in spring 1999, almost 60 percent of families left Iowa's TANF program voluntarily and most were able to remain off the rolls for at least a year. Eight to 12 months after they left, just over 60 percent of family heads were working, and many families still relied on Medicaid....

This study measured the prevalence and resource needs of children with special health care needs in the military health care system, finding that they compose 23 percent of the enrollees in the system who are younger than 18 years old. Most need prescription medications and medical, mental...

This issue brief, the first in a series on trends in welfare to work, examines a Pittsburgh-area program to help newly employed welfare recipients find and keep jobs. Notes that case management, the program's central feature, was valued by participants, but more concrete services, such as help...

This research brief describes instructional practices that support English language learners and presents findings on how those practices are applied in Los Angeles Universal preschool center-based classrooms and family child care programs.