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 g0GKTm014252; Wed, 16 Jan 2002 15:29:49 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 15:29:49 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <p0500191cb86b90970356@[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:652] HandsNet resources X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Status: O Content-Length: 4072 Lines: 80 The following information is crossposted from WebClipper Digest, HandsNet's weekly overview of cross-cutting human services news from throughout the World Wide Web. For daily Headlines news, Alerts and Discussions, and to start your personal clipping service, visit WebClipper at http://www.webclipper.org. Free trial WebClipper memberships are available on our public site at http://www.handsnet.org. ************************************ JANUARY 11, 2002 2002: WHAT'S AHEAD FOR FAMILIES? - Key safety net legislation (TANF, Food Stamps, the Child Care Development Block Grant, IDEA) comes up for reauthorization in 2002. People who care about kids will need to focus on the challenges facing low and moderate-income families, says CONNECT FOR KIDS. http://www.connectforkids.org/resources3139/resources_show.htm?doc_id=96413 EARLY-CHILDHOOD EDUCATION AND CARE: QUALITY COUNTS - Education Week's annual 50-state report card on public education focuses on the states efforts in early-childhood education, finding growing investments but large gaps in quality. The report is based on the premise that when it comes to early learning, quality counts, just as it does in K-12 education. It finds that increasingly, states are getting that message. http://www.edweek.org/sreports/qc02/ EXPANDING FAMILY COVERAGE: States' Medicaid Eligibility Policies for Working Families in 2000 - While 12 states have substantially expanded low-income working parents' eligibility for Medicaid since 1997, income eligibility limits for parents in most states remain well below the poverty line, and about one-third of low-income parents remain uninsured, reports Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. http://www.cbpp.org/1-2-02health.htm RESTORING FOOD STAMP ELIGIBILITY TO IMMIGRANTS - The Bush Administration will propose restoring food stamp eligibility to those otherwise eligible legal immigrants who have lived in the country for five years or more. FRAC welcomes this endorsement of one crucial step to restoring benefits for all needy legal immigrants. Taking all the major proposals together from the President, Senator Lugar and Senator Harkin would get most legal immigrants restored. President Bush's endorsement of the five-year rule provides welcome and valuable momentum toward getting these restorations passed. http://www.frac.org/html/news/alert011002.htm FOOD STAMP PARTICIPATION: LARGEST MONTHLY INCREASE IN 10 YEARS - Participation in the Food Stamp Program jumped in October 2001 (the latest data available) by 589,306 persons from the previous month, to 18,440,198 persons, according to FRAC's analysis of preliminary data from USDA. A monthly increase this large hasn't occurred since 1992. The October number represented a growth of nearly 1.5 million persons compared to eight months earlier - February 2001. The recent trends seem to reflect both a weakening economy and growing efforts to connect eligible people with benefits. Bolstering the Food Stamp Program's reach should be a priority, says Food Research and Action Center. http://www.frac.org/html/news/fsp/01october.html HUNGER IN AMERICA DATA NOW ONLINE - Data from more than 32,000 face-to-face interviews with low-income Americans and survey responses from nearly 24,000 local emergency hunger-relief agencies are now fully searchable. Hunger in America 2001 provides a comprehensive profile of the incidence and nature of hunger and food insecurity in the U.S. as experienced by the low-income people who use America's Second Harvest (A2H) emergency feeding programs. A2H serves an estimated 23.3 million different people annually. http://www.hungerinamerica.org/ -- Barb Van Horn (M.Ed., Reading) Co-Director, Institute for the Study of Adult Literacy Co-Director, Goodling Institute for Research in Family Literacy College of Education, Penn State University 102 Rackley Building, University Park, PA 16802-3202 BLV1@PSU.EDU (e-mail) 814-865-5876 (phone) 814-863-6108 (fax) "Moving adult literacy from the Margins to the Mainstream"
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