Return-Path: <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost.nifl.gov [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.8.7/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA27601; Thu, 20 Nov 1997 10:46:53 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 20 Nov 1997 10:46:53 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199711201548.KAA17276@sable.cc.vt.edu> Errors-To: lmann@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: "Judith H. Snoke" <eslsnoke@vt.edu> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-ESL:1522] Re: New Website on Welfare Reform & Immigrants X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.2 Status: RO Content-Length: 2223 Lines: 51 If you have time, this website should be linked to our homepage. Thanks, Judy At 10:04 AM 11/20/97 -0500, you wrote: > http://www.StateServ.hpts.org provides current and exclusive state >legislative information on welfare reform & immigrants. The 1996 >welfare law rewrote the rules for immigrants, originally cutting $24 >billion in cash, medical, and food stamp benefits. Although $12 >billion in SSI benefits were restored in 1997, states are still >challenged by the cost shifts from federal to state and local safety >net programs, and are determining whether and how to serve >particularly vulnerable immigrant populations. State legislation is >summarized by cash assistance, medical assistance, nutritional >assistance, and naturalization. > Also available on-line are the Project's popular new series of >issue briefs "Welfare Reform & Immigrants." Currently posted are >briefs on: > State Trends, > Nutritional Assistance, and > TANF. > The website was launched by the Health Policy Tracking Service at >NCSL. StateServ also provides information on state policies and >legislation in the areas of > adolescent health, > HIV/AIDS, and > youth access to alcohol. > The website is supported with grants from the Robert Wood Johnson >Foundation, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and >the Ford Foundation. > For more information on StateServ, call The Health Policy Tracking >Service at 202-624-3567 or e-mail them at: info@hpts.org. > For more information on Welfare Reform & Immigrants, contact Ann >Morse, Immigrant Policy Project, at ann.morse@ncsl.org or Jeremy >Meadows at jeremy.meadows@ncsl.org. We welcome your comments. > > > > > > >********************************************************************** > The IMMIGRANT-NEWS-L distribution list is a service of NCSLnet, >the Electronic Information Network for State Legislatures. National > Conference of State Legislatures. For information on NCSLnet services > send a blank e-mail message to: NCSLnet-Info@ncsl.org > > Judith H. Snoke, Director, English Language Institute of Virginia Tech E-mail: eslsnoke@vt.edu --- http://www.vt.edu:10021/E/eslsnoke/homepage.html
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