poverty

Minn-LInK Edition 10: Sanctions and Education Outcomes for Children in TANF Families

In an effort to better understand the impact of sanctions on children’s educational outcomes, the current study addressed the following questions: 1) What are the characteristics of the families who experience sanctions? 2) What is the relationship between sanction experiences and educational outcomes of school attendance and enrollment disruptions for children in elementary, middle and high school? 3) What is the relationship between sanction timings and negative educational outcomes?

Minn-LInK Edition 3: Child Care Assistance: A Discussion and Review of the Literature

This review of the literature examines the multiple roles of Basic Sliding Fee Child Care Assistance (CCAP) in terms of family functioning and well-being. It offers an overview of how CCAP might be viewed as just one of the complex set of factors that can influence family functioning and child well-being when young children require care.

Minn-LInK Edition 2: Child Welfare, High School Graduation and Economic Outcomes

This study is a follow-up to a previous report on the high school graduation outcomes of adolescents involved in the child protection system in Minnesota. This new analysis explores the economic outcomes of the cohort of former high school seniors, examining their wages and public assistance use two years after they left high school.