This multidisciplinary course will draw from research in sociology, psychology, demography, and economics to examine the conditions shaping America’s working families and the public policies that can help to improve the quality of child and adolescent development in working families. Among other topics, we will examine the growing population of working mothers with young children, the use and effects of non-parental child care, welfare reform and the low-wage labor market, the emergence of a 24/7 economy, job loss and underemployment, the effectiveness of job training programs, and the availability and utilization of paid family leave and other public policies to support working parents.
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