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THE U.S. FINANCIAL CRISIS
AND ITS EFFECTS ON CHILDREN, YOUTH, FAMILIES,
SCHOOLS AND SERVICES
This is a temporary collections as long as significant changes are occurring.
Currently you will find:
Sequential annotations and links to full texts on the budget situations in 45 States, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico
Plus annotations and links to (a) situations in various schools, districts, and higher education; and (b) reports on specific impacts (e.g., food stamps/food costs, foreclosures and payday loans, health care, Medicaid, demand for free/reduced price meals,
retirement system losses).
More states are being added
Sources include governors’ offices, state legislatures, state offices of finance and budget, revenue forecasting commissions, city councils, mayors’ offices, school district offices, boards of regents, colleges and universities, federal agencies, state and national organizations, newspapers, research and policy centers.
Key points in the language of the source are quoted,
and you should use the links to see full texts.
These pages work best with Firefox or Explorer browsers.
States: Alabama to Georgia (includes DC)
States: Hawai’i to Maryland
States: Massachusetts to New Jersey
States: New Mexico to South Carolina (includes Puerto Rico)
States: South Dakota to Wyoming
Information on Selected Districts and Schools
Information on Selected Higher Ed Institutions & Reports on Higher Ed
Reports on Other Topics
Note: Since this collection began in late October 2008, several newspaper sources have gone out of business and some now charge for access. In addition, some newspapers have limited their archives of earlier articles. Therefore, a few of the links to full texts of articles in newspapers will not work. But in these cases the annotated summaries remain accurate, and so both the annotation and the link continue to be shown. You will also occasionally link to a newspaper that requests a free sign-in, simply because of the need to demonstrate consumer demographics to advertisers.
We thank the newspapers all over the country that continue to provide important print and online information on a local, regional, State, or national basis.
This information is an attempt to gather wide-ranging information in one place. Information is presented in the language of the developer, publisher, distributor, or author. The Southeast Regional Resource Center has no ownership of anything described in this collection.
Readers should review the copyright and distribution policies shown at the websites of the sources. SERRC is not the source of any document in this library, but simply conveys information to show the availability of these resources.
The opinions expressed herein do not necessarily reflect the position of policy of the U.S. Department of Education, and no endorsement of the U.S. Department of Education should be inferred. Information from sources funded by the U.S. Department of Education is likely to have been vetted by the Department; information from other sources is unlikely to have been vetted.
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