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Moving on up: More than relocation as a path out of child poverty
['Bernice Mpere Gyekye', 'Festus Buetey Longmatey', 'Charles Yaw Aheto-Tsegah', 'Kezia Dedoo', 'Lawrencia Owusu', 'Kathy Hirsh-Pasek', 'Andres S. Bustamante', 'Roberta Michnick Golinkoff', 'Virginia Rauh', 'Pius Senanu Kwame Dzinyela']
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Even if all children were enrolled in high-quality, early care education programs, they often return to home and neighborhood environments that are under-resourced and demanding in ways that counterbalance or even undo the benefits of high-quality care and education. The Seattle study shows that when parents are guided with information and offered financial resources, they are responsive to opportunities to move to better housing and better neighborhoods, aspects of children’s environments that predict their future outcomes. How unconditional cash can affect families during the most sensitive years of their children’s early development is currently being tested in the U.S.