Kelleen Kaye

Kelleen Kaye is an analyst and policy expert on family structure and family relationships as they relate to child, youth, and parental well-being. She has been a senior policy analyst at the Department of Health and Human Services, where she worked on efforts targeting single parenthood, teen pregnancy, healthy-marriage promotion, low-wage employment, and poverty, as well as a researcher with the Department of Labor, The Urban Institute, and The Brookings Institution. Her publications include chapters in Out-of-Wedlock: Causes and Consequences of Nonmarital Fertility and The Low-Wage Labor Market: Challenges and Opportunities for Self-Sufficiency. Ms. Kaye holds a master’s degree in public policy from the University of Michigan and a B.S. in economics and mathematics from the University of Wisconsin.

As a Fellow at the New America Foundation, Ms. Kaye develops and promotes public policy solutions to strengthen the structure of America’s families, thus improving the well-being of children and youth as well as the ability of parents to support their families through work. Through rigorous statistical analyses of detailed data, Ms. Kaye develops empirically based approaches that focus on helping families. She will translate these findings into a series of articles and policy briefs to demonstrate to the policy community the urgency of these issues and promising next steps.

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