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In Our Hands - The Struggle for U.S. Child Care Policy (Hardcover) Loot Price: R1,848
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In Our Hands - The Struggle for U.S. Child Care Policy (Hardcover): Elizabeth Palley, Corey S. Shdaimah

In Our Hands - The Struggle for U.S. Child Care Policy (Hardcover)

Elizabeth Palley, Corey S. Shdaimah

Series: Families, Law, and Society

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Working mothers are common in the United States. In over half of all two-parent families, both parents work, and women's paychecks on average make up 35 percent of their families' incomes. Most of these families yearn for available and affordable child care--but although most developed countries offer state-funded child care, it remains scarce in the United States. And even in prosperous times, child care is rarely a priority for U.S. policy makers.

In In Our Hands: The Struggle for U.S. Child Care Policy, Elizabeth Palley and Corey S. Shdaimah explore the reasons behind the relative paucity of U.S. child care and child care support. Why, they ask, are policy makers unable to convert widespread need into a feasible political agenda? They examine the history of child care advocacy and legislation in the United States, from the Child Care Development Act of the 1970s that was vetoed by Nixon through the Obama administration's Child Care Development Block Grant. The book includes data from interviews with 23 prominent child care and early education advocates and researchers who have spent their careers seeking expansion of child care policy and funding and an examination of the legislative debates around key child care bills of the last half-century. Palley and Shdaimah analyze the special interest and niche groups that have formed around existing policy, arguing that such groups limit the possibility for debate around U.S. child care policy. Ultimately, they conclude, we do not need to make minor changes to our existing policies. We need a revolution.

General

Imprint: New York University Press
Country of origin: United States
Series: Families, Law, and Society
Release date: June 2014
First published: 2014
Authors: Elizabeth Palley • Corey S. Shdaimah
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Trade binding
Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 978-1-4798-6265-8
Categories: Books > Law > Laws of other jurisdictions & general law > Private, property, family law > Family law
LSN: 1-4798-6265-7
Barcode: 9781479862658

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