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Title: Supporting Infants and Toddlers Through Federal Relief and the American Rescue Plan
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Publication Year: 2022
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Abstract: Today’s infants and toddlers have lived virtually their entire lives during a pandemic, shaping every aspect of their growth and wellbeing. The pandemic has impacted them directly, through individual experiences such as delayed screenings for developmental issues and reduced social interactions, and because they live in families that have faced increased hunger and housing insecurity.1 These young children have also been indirectly affected through the circumstances of other members of their households, including increased parental stress, illness, and job loss.2 Simply put, COVID has remade their entire world during a critical, formative period. Moreover, the long-overdue racial reckoning we faced in 2020—which exacerbated the pervasive, systemic racism that has plagued our nation for centuries—has only heightened the harms for infants and toddlers of color and their families. Two years into the pandemic and one year after the passage of the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA),3 this brief examines how decision makers implementing ARPA have used COVID relief funding and policy opportunities to lay the groundwork for longer-term, transformative change by equitably supporting infants, toddlers, and their families in a range of ways. We also offer guidance for how decision makers can leverage ARPA across myriad programs to support these children and families now and into the future.
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Authors: Ferrette, Tiffany; Fortner, Alyssa; Johnson-Staub, Christine; Robbins, Katherine Gallagher
Publisher: The Center for Law and Social Policy
Data Collections: IPUMS USA, IPUMS CPS
Topics: Work, Family, and Time
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