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Closing the Opportunity Gap for Young Children (2023) / Chapter Skim
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Pages 358-363

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From page 358...
... . As discussed earlier, barriers to accessing publicly funded programs that can reduce opportunity gaps are as much a result of historical disinvestment and disenfranchisement of low-income communities and communities of color as of poorly designed or implemented policies.
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From page 359...
... Many of the factors that drive opportunity gaps in education, physical health, and social-emotional development and well-being cut across these domains; a multisectoral approach will be required to reduce, mitigate, and eliminate them. Through public–private partnerships, the public sector, philanthropic organizations, private-sector businesses, and other stakeholders can combine and sustain efforts to address opportunity gaps more efficiently.
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From page 360...
... CONCLUSIONS There is strong evidence that the social safety net reduces child poverty. Safety net programs are crucial for providing the resources needed to address the opportunity gaps discussed in this report, improving economic security, and countering structural racism.
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From page 361...
... Thus, programs can potentially help reduce racial/ethnic opportunity gaps in parents' job quality and psychological stress that influence children's development, but more research is needed to test rigorously whether these strategies reduce gaps in children's social-emotional outcomes. Taken together, results from these interventions show that proactively changing employer practices with the goal of reducing stress from work– family conflicts can be effective in improving the social-emotional and physical health of working parents, which in turn positively affects children's health.
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From page 362...
... Both state-to-state and intrastate variations in the implementation and funding of various programs and policies (e.g., Medicaid expansion, minimum wages, the EITC) lead to persistent inequities in outcomes for children.
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From page 363...
... . The effects of paid family leave in California on labor market outcomes.
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