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This report addresses the large gap in our understanding of the employment patterns of mothers and the care of their children while they work. It presents new data on forms of care used for infants, toddlers, and school-age children, as well as previously unknown national data on how parents find programs, what alternatives are available, [...]

In March, 1998, the Urban Institute, with support from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), convened a conference that involved many of the best-known researchers working on the measurement of discrimination. The goals of the conference were to explore the feasibility and merits of creating a national report card on disc [...]

Society must plan now for the requirements of the next century's elderly population. The authors use microsimulation to project the number of elderly, as well as their future incomes, living arrangements, and social service needs. They then show that the increase in demand for support services will grow drastically, even with optimistic a [...]

Immigration is changing the face of rural America, from Florida to Washington and from Maine to California. Migrants arrive, many from Mexico, to fill jobs on farms and in farm-related industries, usually at earnings below the poverty. Leaders of rural industries are adamant that a steady influx of foreign workers is necessary for economi [...]

Industrialized nations will be forced to confront new problems as their populations age and as increasing globalization reduces their power to insulate their economies and policies from the effects of other countries' actions. These problems include prior spending commitments built into major entitlement programs. The United States can ef [...]