{"id":7915,"date":"2022-04-11T22:29:34","date_gmt":"2022-04-11T22:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/partnersforourchildren.org\/new-uw-study-shows-anti-poverty-policies-can-reduce-reports-of-child-neglect\/"},"modified":"2022-04-11T22:29:34","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T22:29:34","slug":"new-uw-study-shows-anti-poverty-policies-can-reduce-reports-of-child-neglect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/partnersforourchildren.org\/new-uw-study-shows-anti-poverty-policies-can-reduce-reports-of-child-neglect\/","title":{"rendered":"New UW study shows anti-poverty policies can reduce reports of child neglect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Providing economic relief to struggling families can lead to fewer cases of child neglect, according to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1177\/1077559520987302?journalCode=cmxa\">new research<\/a>\u00a0by the University of Washington. A 10% increase in a common benefit for low- to moderate-income working families, the Earned Income Tax Credit, led to a 9% decrease in the annual number of reports of child neglect made to child welfare agencies over a 14-year study period. That&#8217;s a significant impact, researchers say, and can inform future social policies. Read more about the findings\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/pub_releases\/2021-01\/uow-apc012621.php?utm_medium=email&#038;utm_source=govdelivery\">here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 10% increase in the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) led to a 9% decrease in the annual number of reports of child neglect made to child welfare agencies over a 14-year study period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[115,152,122],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/partnersforourchildren.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7915"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/partnersforourchildren.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/partnersforourchildren.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partnersforourchildren.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partnersforourchildren.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/partnersforourchildren.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/partnersforourchildren.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partnersforourchildren.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partnersforourchildren.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}