The evidence is clear and convincing: Investments in quality child care and full-day pre-K more than pay for themselves and are proven strategies for reversing the growing income inequality in New York State, the most extreme in the nation. New York State leaders must build opportunity and stem inequality by expanding investments in quality child…

The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) are long-standing policies that link cash assistance to low-income families to work effort. A new policy being tested in New York City adopts this "conditional cash transfer" principle and extends it to a broader set of family efforts to build their…

Katherine Magnuson's research focuses on the well-being and development of economically disadvantaged children and their families. In the first half of this brief Magnuson pulls together scholarship on the effects of poverty and inequality on children, especially from infancy to age five. Her scope goes beyond the social sciences to include new…

This report portrays various performance indicators that are intended to facilitate an assessment of the postsecondary education system in Illinois. Descriptive statistics are presented for Illinois and five other comparison states as well as the nation. Comparison states were selected according to the degree of similarity of population…

Summarizes the debate on a 1969 article arguing that California's public higher education system redistributed income from lower to upper income classes. Reanalyzes the author's study of New York's state university system, concentrating on the 35-59 age cohort, to show that lower income groups received net subsidies. (RW)

The estimated fiscal impact of four federal cost reduction options for the Guaranteed Student Loan (GSL) Program was studied. Income and other financial strength data on current New York State recipients of guaranteed loans during the 1981-82 academic year were collected in order to assess the impact of the cost reduction proposals. Two major…