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 g1JK7Ou13417; Tue, 19 Feb 2002 15:07:24 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 15:07:24 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <p05001914b8985e5ef95a@[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:773] HandsNet resources X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Status: O Content-Length: 2143 Lines: 43 The following information 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. ************************************ FEBRUARY 15, 2002 LACK OF APPROPRIATE RESEARCH LEADS TO GAPS IN KNOWLEDGE ABOUT CHILDREN IN IMMIGRANT FAMILIES - The Research Forum on Children, Families, and the New Federalism highlights trends in the population that are of extraordinary importance to our nation. http://www.researchforum.org/ CONGRESSIONAL TESTIMONY ON WORKING POOR: One in Five Fulltime Low-wage Workers Can't Afford Basic Necessities - Among the families that went from welfare to full-time, full-year employment in 1997, 29% suffered hardships; in 1999, the hardship rate for welfare-to-work families reached 45%, EPI economist Heather Boushey told a U.S. Senate committee in testimony on the needs of the working poor. Basic family budgets vary by geographic region across the U.S., ranging from $21,989 per year in Hattiesburg, MI to $48,606 in New York's Nassau and Suffolk counties for a one-parent working family with two children under twelve. http://www.epinet.org/webfeatures/viewpoints/boushey_testimony_20020214.html HHS 2002 POVERTY GUIDELINES ANNOUNCED - Used in determining financial eligibility for certain federal programs. For a family of three in the 48 contiguous states and D.C., the 2002 HHS Poverty Guideline is $15,020 (add $3,080 for each additional person). http://aspe.hhs.gov/poverty/02poverty.htm THE HAVES AND HAVE-NOTS IN AMERICA: Chasing the Red, White, and Blue - National Center for Children in Poverty announces an exciting new book by David Cohen that examines growing income inequality and its implications for the American Dream. Read the Introduction online now, later chapters will be posted in upcoming months. http://cpmcnet.columbia.edu/dept/nccp/chasing/index.html
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