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An Urban Institute report, "Ten Myth-Busting Facts About Welfare," provides these factoids about the U.S. welfare system...

• States are able to set their own rules about who gets welfare and how much, usually reflecting the state's culture and philosophy about government's role in helping the poor.
  
  
• Not everyone who is poor gets welfare.  Cash assistance reaches less than one in three poor families nationally.
  
  
• The amount that the federal government gives states for welfare (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) has not changed since 1997.
  
  
• Since welfare began in 1997, the share of poor families receiving assistance has fallen in all states.
  
  
• Almost half of welfare cases include only children, with no financial assistance for adults.
  
  
  

What You Need to Lead an Early Childhood Program

What You Need to Lead an Early Childhood Program: Emotional Intelligence in Practice is the first and only early childhood leadership book anchored in what matters most: the art and science of building relationships. Emotional intelligence is the ability to read people as well as you read books and to know how to use that information wisely. Each chapter begins with a case study that features richly complex, everyday challenges facing early childhood program directors. Alongside case studies are theory and principles, pointers and problem-solving steps to help you practice and hone your leadership skills.

• Part I — Forming: Setting Up the Program and Yourself for Success
• Part II — Storming: Identifying, Preventing, and Addressing Resistance to Change
• Part III — Norming: Establishing Management Systems
• Part IV — Performing: Putting Principles into Practice
• Part V — Re-Forming: Renewing, Refreshing, Dreaming of What Might Be

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