Selected Publications (PDF)
National
- The Effects of State EITC Expansion on Children’s Health (Baughman, Issue Brief No. 48)
- Lack of Protections for Home Care Workers: Overtime Pay and Minimum Wage (Smith, Issue Brief No. 43)
- Rates of Public Health Insurance Coverage for Children Rise as Rates of Private Coverage Decline (Staley, Bean, and Ulrich, 2011, Issue Brief No. 41)
- Reliance on Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Continued to Rise Post-Recession (Bean, 2011, Issue Brief No. 39)
- More Poor Kids in More Poor Places: Children Increasingly Live Where Poverty Persists (Mattingly, Johnson, and Schaefer, 2011, Issue Brief No. 38)
- One Million Additional Children in Poverty Since 2009: 2010 Data Reveal Nearly One in Four Southern Children Now Live in Poverty (Mattingly, Bean, and Schaefer, 2011, Issue Brief No. 37)
- TANF in Rural America: Informing Re-authorization (Jensen, Mattingly, and Bean, 2011, Policy Brief No. 19)
- Southeastern Kentuckians Remain Optimistic Through Great Recession: Growing Concerns about Sprawl, Housing, and Recreational Opportunities (Ulrich, 2011, New England Issue Brief No. 36)
- Unemployment in the Great Recession: Single Parents and Men Hit Hard (Mattingly, Smith, and Bean, Issue Brief No. 35)
- Total Children Covered by Health Insurance Increased in 2009 (Bean and Staley, Issue Brief No. 34)
- Rural and Central City Residents with Multiple Children Likely to Be Hardest Hit by Proposed WIC Cuts (Bean, Issue Brief No. 33)
- Rural Workers Have Less Access to Paid Sick Days (Smith and Schaefer, Issue Brief No. 32)
- Long-Term Foster Care—Different Needs, Different Outcomes (Mattingly and Walsh, Issue Brief No. 31)
- Natural Decrease in America: More Coffins than Cradles (Johnson, Issue Brief No. 30)
- Reading Levels of Rural and Urban Third Graders Lag Behind Their Suburban Peers (Graham and Teague, Issue Brief No. 28)
- Household Reports of Energy Assistance Receipt Increased 48 Percent During Recession: Proposed Cuts Threaten Vulnerable Families (Bean, Issue Brief No. 27)
- Education in Chronically Poor Rural Areas Lags Across Generations (Ulrich, Issue Brief No. 24)
- Civil Protective Orders Effective in Stopping or Reducing Partner Violence: Challenges Remain in Rural Areas with Access and Enforcement (Logan and Walker, Policy Brief No. 18)
- More Than One in Ten American Households Relies on Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Benefits
(Bean and Mattingly, Issue No. Brief 20) - Hard Times Made Harder: Struggling Caregivers and Child Neglect (Walsh, Issue Brief No. 19)
- The Unequal Distribution of Child Poverty: Highest Rates among Young Blacks and Children of Single Mothers in Rural America (Mattingly and Bean, Issue Brief No. 18)
- Wives as Breadwinners: Wives' Share of Family Earnings Hits Historic High during the Second Year of the Great Recession (Smith, Fact Sheet No. 20)
- Young Child Poverty in 2009: Rural Poverty Rate Jumps to Nearly 29 Percent in Second Year of Recession (Mattingly and Stransky, Issue Brief No. 17)
- Older Americans Working More, Retiring Less (Shattuck, 2010, Issue Brief No. 16)
- Understanding Very High Rates of Young Child Poverty in the South (Mattingly and Turcotte-Seabury, 2010, Issue Brief No. 15)
- Over 3 Million Low-Income Children In Rural Areas Face Cut In Child Tax Credit If Recovery Act Improvement Expires (Sherman and Mattingly, 2010, co-publication with the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities)
- The Changing Faces of America's Children and Youth (Johnson, 2010, Issue Brief No. 15)
New England
- Coös County Teens’ Family Relationships (Tucker and Wiesen-Martin, 2012, Fact Sheet No. 5)
- Teen Stress and Substance Use Problems in Coös: Survey Shows Strong Community Attachment Can Offset Risk (Van Gundy and Mills, 2011, New England Issue Brief No. 29)
- Coös Teens’ View of Family Economic Stress Is Tied to Quality of Relationships at Home (Tucker and Cox, 2011, Issue Brief No. 28)
- How Far Would You Drive for Fresh Food? How Some Rural New Hampshire Residents Navigate a Dismal Food Landscape (Jennifer J. Esala, Issue Brief No. 25)
- No Place Like Home: Place and Community Identity Among North Country Youth (Cox and Tucker, 2011, New England Issue Brief No. 24)
- Teachers Matter: Feelings of School Connectedness and Positive Youth Development among Coos County Youth (Stracuzzi and Mills, 2010, New England Issue Brief No. 23)
- What's for Dinner? Finding and Affording Healthy Foods in New Hampshire Communities (Stracuzzi and Ward, 2010, Issue Brief No. 21)
- Working Parents and Workplace Flexibility in New Hampshire (Smith and Smith, 2010, co-publication with the University of New Hampshire Cooperative Extension)
- Indicators of New Hampshire Youth Well-Being (Wauchope, 2010, co-publication with the Children's Alliance of New Hampshire)