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March 2012 Issue of the Journal of Children & Poverty Now Available

3/2012

The March 2012 issue of the Journal of Children & Poverty is now available online.

Journal of Children & Poverty
Volume 18, Issue 1

Articles:

Social insurance and children: The relationship between Social Security, economic well-being, and family context among child recipients
Christopher R. Tamborini, Office of Retirement Policy, Social Security Administration, and Emily Cupito, Innovations for Poverty Action

Early childhood education and care use: Differences by race/ethnicity and age
Joy Pastan Greenberg and Jessica M. Kahn, Lehman College, City University of New York

Children's well-being, adult poverty, and jobs-of-last-resort
Anthony J. Mallon, University of Georgia, and Guy V.G. Stevens, Federal Reserve Board (ret.)

Book reviews:

Wealth and welfare states: Is America a laggard or a leader?, by Irwin Garfinekl, Lee Rainwater, and Timothy Smeeding
Reviewed by Sarah B. Garlington, Boston University

Disrupted childhoods: Children of women in prison, by Jane Siegel
Reviewed by Colin Asher, Institute for Children, Poverty, Homelessness

The war on poverty: A new grassroots history, 1964–1980, edited by Annelise Orleck and Lis Gayle Hazirjian
Reviewed by Karen M. Hawkins, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Boys in poverty: A framework for understanding dropout, by Ruby K. Payne
Reviewed by Rebecca Nordin Landis, University of Georgia

Submit manuscripts online:
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/cjcp

For more information: http://www.icphusa.org/jcp/

The Journal of Children & Poverty publishes original research in the areas of education, health, public policy, and the socioeconomic causes and effects of poverty. The Journal seeks papers that will influence policy and practice in the fields of child and family welfare. JCP targets an audience that includes policymakers, academics, and community leaders. The Taylor & Francis Group publishes the Journal biannually.