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Upcoming
Conference:
September 20-22, 2006
Making Voices Count for Kids: 2006 Joint
Conference
FEATURING
United
Kingdom War on Poverty
The
United Kingdom has committed to ending poverty for children
in the next 25 years. What can we learn from their efforts
about effective policies, messages, and building public
will?
Opportunity
in America: Economic and Social Mobility
This
Fall, Princeton University and the Brookings Institute
will publish an issue of "The Future of Children
Journal" that will cover intergenerational mobility,
social mobility with women and minorities, and early
education impact on mobility.
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All
featured publications can be found in the KIDS COUNT
Network Issues Library. To check out other publications
in the Library, click
here!
Evaluating
Accuracy of the American Community Survey:
In
2005, the U.S. Census Bureau launched its new American
Community Survey (ACS) in 3 million households nationwide.
The ACS will replace the traditional long form sent
to a sample of homes during the decennial census. More>
North
Dakota KIDS Count 2006 Data Book now available:
New
2006 resources are available from North Dakota KIDS
COUNT. The publications include the North Dakota Fact
Book and Data Book.
More>
Kids
in the City: Indicators of Child Well-Being in Large
Cities from 2004 American Community Survey:
The
Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institution
along with the Population Reference Bureau just released
a new publication surveying the well-being of child
in large American cities.
More>
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to the KIDS COUNT Newsletter!