All Posts Tagged With: "Head Start"
Children’s Real Enemy
John Hood is president of the John Locke Foundation, a state policy think tank based in Raleigh, North Carolina, and one of the authors of a new report on children and public policy from the Pacific Research Institute. “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure,” or so the old saying goes. For [...]
1Jun1999 | John Hood | 2 comments | ContinuedThe Professionalization of Parenthood
Susan Orr is director of the Reason Public Policy Institute’s Center for Social Policy in Washington, D.C. What do the following things have in common? The child-care initiative, foster care, Head Start, and the child-abuse prevention effort “Healthy Families.” All are programs for children and all receive government funding, most at the federal level. They [...]
1Jun1999 | Susan Orr | 0 comments | ContinuedWhy the War on Poverty Failed
Well, it’s now official: the war on poverty was a costly, tragic mistake. Ordinary people have suspected that for decades, of course, but we had to wait for the New York Times to decide this news was fit to print—which it finally did on February 9, 1998. In a front-page story on poverty in rural [...]
1Jan1999 | James L. Payne | 9 comments | Continued-
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