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Determining Need for Subsidized Child Care in West L.A.

Huma Husain UP 206 Midterm February 8, 2010. Determining Need for Subsidized Child Care in West L.A. Background. Governor Schwarzenegger cut a $256 million program for subsidized child care Many remaining programs only subsidize child care for families on welfare

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Determining Need for Subsidized Child Care in West L.A.

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  1. Huma Husain UP 206 Midterm February 8, 2010 Determining Need for Subsidized Child Care in West L.A.

  2. Background • Governor Schwarzenegger cut a $256 million program for subsidized child care • Many remaining programs only subsidize child care for families on welfare • How do low-income working families get support for child care so that they can keep their jobs?

  3. Project Questions • Where are licensed child care centers in my neighborhood? • What are the levels of need for subsidies in this area? • Which tracts would benefit most from subsidy programs? • Where should we put new subsidized child care centers?

  4. Income and Poverty Median Income of Families with Children # of Families with Children Below Poverty

  5. Skills Used Slide 3: • Inset Map • GeocodingChildCare Centers • Attribute Sub-Set Selection: West LA was derived by querying CA Zips where zipcode = (90024, 90025, 90064, 90067) • Geoprocessing: Clipping CA tracts to Zipcode region Slide 4: • Geoprocessing: Clipping CA blockgroups to Zipcode region Slide 6: • Buffering Slide 7: • Creating an Index: normalized variables to scale of 0 to 100 and averaged the three scores ( Variables = Families with Children under 5 yrs old + Households with No car + Families with Children below poverty) Slide 8: • Boundary Sub-Set Selection: Selecting only the schools within zipcode region

  6. Possible Research for Final • Looking at daycares for a broader region • Determining cost and capacity of licensed child care centers • Finding out what subsidy programs currently do exist, where they are located, and how much of costs they subsidize

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