Sacramento Head Start Alumni Association

Children and Welfare Reform

Jan 26, 2002

LOW-WAGE FAMILIES ?– WHERE THE CHILDREN ARE

**Children and Welfare Reform ?– Heads Up
Children constitute the majority of those dependent on welfare
benefits.
?“Children and Welfare Reform,?” the next issue in the Packard Foundation
Future of Children series, will be released February 20. The issue will
examine welfare reform?’s impacts on child development, child care
options
for low-income families, fertility and father involvement and family
economic resources, along with analysis and recommendations regarding
reauthorization of the welfare reform legislation and commentaries by
leading experts. http://www.futureofchildren.org