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This issue brief discusses the challenges faced by children who grow up in low income environments. It includes statistics regarding vulnerable children and solutions to prevent vulnerable children from falling behind.

In this interview, Julia Perilla presents a community psychologist’s perspective on the definition of domestic violence, describes the importance of understanding the cultural, historical and economic context in which domestic violence occurs, the many ways in which violence can be experienced, and how these forms of violence are linked.

This brief highlights the challenges of low-wage work. Sufficient income, assets, human and social capital are noted as key policy areas to meet family economic security. State-by-state policy and context profiles are available via the NCCP website.

This brief covers data and statistics on low-income children in the U.S. living in immigrant families. The brief includes an overview of federal and state policy involving immigrant access to vital services/public benefits, e.g. food stamps.

This issue profiles the vanguard efforts of the Washington State Coalition Against Domestic Violence as they respond to the economic-related needs faced by battered women and their children.

This Government Accounting Office (GAO) report on federal and state implementation of the Family Violence Option recommends that HHS identify and promote promising practices.

This NCRC survey discusses HMDA data from 15 large lending institutions. The executive summary describes chronic fair lending disparities primarily affecting communities of color, women, and low and moderate-income borrowers.

This manual is designed for Native American leaders and community members who are interested in launching an EITC awareness campaign. It begins with an overview of the EITC, explains how the EITC can benefit Native American communities, provides concrete strategies, tips and a timeline, and includes additional resources.

This issue of the BCS newsletter reviews the initial event of the Building Comprehensive Solutions to Domestic Violence Connecting to Build Comprehensive Solutions Institute.&The Connecting Institute Tampa Seminar, held November 2004, is the featured story. This main article summarizes activities, philosophy, and highlights of the Connecting Institute's kick-off gathering of 15 (fifteen) state teams.& Lessons learned are highlighted. The newsletter also includes a listing of relevant written materials.

The paper summarizes the research addressing the effects of TANF on family formation and suggests policies that would neither discourage marriage nor disadvantage children being raised in single-parent families.

This tool kit includes data on low-wage workers, fact sheets on work and child poverty, reports on public perceptions of poor people and the economy, suggested messages, descriptions of framing, and a guide for journalists on how to talk about low-wage work.

This issue profiles the community organizing and community-based organization (CBO) capacity building approach of the Community Empowerment Program (CEP) of CONNECT, Inc. of New York City.