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 g0LG2kn00743; Mon, 21 Jan 2002 11:02:46 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 11:02:46 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <p05001904b871e9e2f142@[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:665] HandsNet resources X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Status: O Content-Length: 2728 Lines: 56 The information below is 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 18, 2002 STATES ARE CUTTING LOW-INCOME PROGRAMS IN RESPONSE TO FISCAL CRISIS - Health care, job supports, and other services for low-income families are falling victim to budget cuts in many states as fiscal conditions deteriorate. Some 19 states have already made specific, identifiable cuts to low-income and human services programs. Less counter-productive options are available, writes Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. http://www.cbpp.org/1-17-02sfp-pr.htm SHARED WORK, VALUED CARE: New Norms for Organizing Market Work and Unpaid Care Work - More women are working now than ever before. Yet we as a society have done nothing to help families handle the mounting conflict between work and family responsibilities. Economic Policy Institute reports on what the U.S. can learn from other industrialized nations about policies that make work more family friendly: working from home, reduced hours and job sharing, greater flexibility in work schedules, paid parental leave, career-track jobs for women and on-site day care. http://www.epinet.org/press/releases/swvc010902.html REPORT RAISES QUESTIONS ABOUT CHILD SUPPORT DISTRIBUTION FOR FAMILIES LEAVING TANF - CLASP summarizes a recent report issued by the Office of Inspector General outlining findings and recommendations on the problems many families leaving TANF experience in collecting child support payments they are entitled to as they transition from welfare to self-sufficiency, a time when receipt of child support can be crucial. http://www.clasp.org/pubs/childenforce/OIG%20Report%20re%20Post-TANF%20Distribution.pdf NEW DIRECTIONS IN AFTERSCHOOL EVALUATION - A new set of presentations from the Harvard Family Research Project's After School Evaluation Symposium is now available and presenters will take questions online. http://www.gse.harvard.edu/hfrp/projects/afterschool/symposium/current_presentation.html -- 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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