Return-Path: <nifl-health@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id f89NlFf11379; Sun, 9 Sep 2001 19:47:15 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2001 19:47:15 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <v04210104b7c1aea14b6c@[130.203.164.56]> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-health@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-health@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-health@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: Barb Van Horn <blv1@psu.edu> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-health@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-HEALTH:3345] HandsNet resources X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Status: O Content-Length: 2184 Lines: 49 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 tailored to your needs, visit WebClipper at http://www.webclipper.org. Free trial WebClipper memberships are available on our public site at http://www.handsnet.org. ************************************ SEPTEMBER 7, 2001 WORKERS WITHOUT HEALTH INSURANCE: Who Are They and How Can Policy Reach Them? - A new report from the Urban Institute and Community Voices offers the most detailed picture yet of the uninsured working population-now numbering more than 16 million-and compares the relative merits of two key vehicles for expanding coverage: tax credits or public programs. It concludes that health insurance subsidies for low income workers are most efficient way to expand coverage. http://www.urban.org/news/pressrel/pr010829.html GROWING DISPARITIES IN HEALTH INSURANCE FOR WOMEN - Building on options that currently exist -- such as employer-sponsored insurance, CHIP, and Medicaid -- offer the greatest promise for increasing access to affordable health care for the nation's 15 million uninsured women, reports The Commonwealth Foundation. http://www.cmwf.org/ 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 tailored to your needs, visit WebClipper at http://www.webclipper.org. Free trial WebClipper memberships are available on our public site at http://www.handsnet.org. ****************** 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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