Reducing Intergenerational Poverty (2024) / Chapter Skim
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. Research has not yet established whether fines and fees affect the intergenerational mobility of children growing up in low-income families, nor is the evidence regarding the impact of parental incarceration on child outcomes entirely consistent (see Appendix C: Chapter 9)
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As in other chapters, the committee highlights policies and programs for which direct evidence has established connections with correlates of intergenerational poverty in adulthood -- earnings, educational attainment, and incarceration. As discussed in Chapter 1, we characterize the evidence on some of these programs or policies as "strong" and denote them with an "*
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Providing incentives to state and local governments to reduce reliance on juvenile detention will likely lead to disproportionate mobility benefits for Black and Native American youth. It is important that any steps taken to reduce juvenile confinement be accompanied by efforts to monitor their possible effects on neighborhood crime levels.
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A reasonable approach would be to appropriate $10 million per year over 10 years for a competitive grants process targeted at the 50 cities or jurisdictions with the highest rates of violent crime. • Improve and increase federal grants to community-based organiza tions.
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To reduce such fatalities, along with exposure to crime and violence, the committee explored a menu of proven interventions: • Reduce access to guns in ways that pass constitutional review; promote child access prevention laws, restrictions on right-to-carry laws, limited guns access for domestic abusers, and sentencing add ons for violence involving firearms. Policy and Program Ideas Based on Indirect Evidence As detailed in Appendix C: Chapter 9, a number of additional interventions may be promising avenues for increasing intergenerational mobility by reducing crime and the footprint of the criminal justice system, but still lack strong evidence of their effectiveness.
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It then reviews what is known about the factors that place children at risk of maltreatment and involvement with the child welfare system. Finally, it evaluates the evidence on effective policies and programs to reduce child maltreatment and child welfare system involvement and on their potential for reducing intergenerational poverty.
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Subgroup rates have changed only in the case of Native American children and, in their cases rates have risen in the last 10 years and now exceed rates for Black children. 18 16 Black Rate per 1,000 children age 0-17 14 Native 12 American 10 All 8 White 6 Latino 4 Asian 2 0 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Black Native American Latino White Asian All FIGURE 10-1 Rates of substantiated maltreatment of children ages 0–17 by selected characteristics, 2008–2020.
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