Return-Path: <nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id f2OJ1gg02227; Sat, 24 Mar 2001 14:01:42 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 14:01:42 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <p05001903b6e29e3ae866@[146.186.96.31]> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: Barb Van Horn <blv1@psu.edu> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-FAMILY:3525] WebClipper resources X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Status: O Content-Length: 2628 Lines: 61 The following information is drawn from the HandsNet WebClipper Digest, HandsNet's weekly overview of cross-cutting human services news from throughout the World Wide Web. ************************************ For information about the WebClipper Digest, contact: Sue Dormanen HandsNet Editor sdormanen@handsnet.org OMB WATCH offers free email lists to keep you up to date on the federal budget and other governmental issues affecting the nonprofit sector. http://www.ombwatch.org/forum.html HELPING WORKING FAMILIES - This National League of Cities' Institute for Youth, Education and Families action kit is available at no cost. To order call 202-626-3014 or email: rpd1@nlc.org. http://www.nlc.org/IYEF.htm TALKING WITH KIDS ABOUT TOUGH ISSUES - A new survey of kids age 8-15 finds bullying, discrimination, violence, alcohol and drugs are big problems for people their age, and parents often wait for kids to raise the tough issues. http://www.talkingwithkids.org/nickelodeon/pr-3-8-01.htm HARDSHIP AMONG CHILDREN OF IMMIGRANTS: Findings from the 1999 National Survey of America's Families - An Urban Institute study released this week found that hardship is greater for children of immigrants than for children of U.S. natives in three areas of basic need: food, housing and health care, and that concerns about affording food are common in immigrant families. Nearly one-fourth of all children of immigrants live in poor families, defined as below 100% of the federal poverty line, compared with 16% of children of U.S. natives. http://newfederalism.urban.org/html/series_b/b29/b29.html LOCAL FOOD STAMP GRIDLOCK - Food banks are speaking out about the barriers hungry people in their local communities face when applying for food stamps, reports America's Second Harvest. http://www.secondharvest.org/newsroom/hunger_news.html WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO MAKE IT IN AMERICA? - The Ford Foundation reports on a new frontier for welfare reform in the U.S.: the Self-Sufficiency Standard, which measures how much low-income working families need to make it in today's economy. http://www.fordfound.org/publications/ff_report/view_ff_report_detail.cfm?report_index=261 -- ****************** Barbara Van Horn NIFL-WORKPLACE List Co-Moderator Co-Director, Institute for the Study of Adult Literacy Co-Director, Goodling Institute for Research in Family Literacy College of Education, The Pennsylvania State University 102 Rackley Building, University Park, PA 16802-3202 Phone: 814-865-5876 Fax: 814-863-6108 E-mail: BLV1@PSU.EDU "Moving adult literacy from the Margins to the Mainstream"
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