Return-Path: <nifl-povracelit@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id j88GviG10412; Thu, 8 Sep 2005 12:57:44 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 12:57:44 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20050908124827.0118caa0@pop.utk.edu> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-povracelit@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-povracelit@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-povracelit@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: Donna Brian <djgbrian@utk.edu> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-povracelit@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-POVRACELIT:1531] Fwd: New from MDRC X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Status: O Content-Length: 2884 Lines: 86 Posted at the request of John Hutchins, Publications Director of MDRC. MDRC is a nonprofit, nonpartisan social policy research organization with headquarters in New York City and a regional office in Oakland, California. >Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 16:28:55 -0400 >From: John Hutchins <john.hutchins@mdrc.org> > >Please feel free to post this material to the appropriate NIFL >discussion lists.... > >Thanks! > >John > > >John Hutchins >Publications Director >MDRC >16 E. 34th Street >New York, NY 10016-4326 >(212) 340-8604 direct >(212) 684-0832 fax >www.mdrc.org > >-----Original Message----- >From: updates@mdrc.org [mailto:updates@mdrc.org] >Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2005 1:53 PM >To: John Hutchins >Subject: New from MDRC > >MDRC is pleased to announce new material on its web site at >http://www.mdrc.org. > > >NEW PUBLICATIONS > >Welfare Reform in Los Angeles: >Implementation, Effects, and Experiences of Poor Families and >Neighborhoods > >http://www.mdrc.org/sps/go.cgi?c=PxjBqv_eC9GxdaUUDF_R > >Welfare caseloads fell, employment increased, and neighborhood >conditions improved in Los Angeles during a period of economic growth >and welfare reform. However, most welfare recipients still remained >poor, the concentration of poverty increased, and those who worked were >usually in low-wage jobs without benefits. Overall, MDRC's Urban Change >project found no evidence that welfare reform caused widespread hardship >in the cities it examined - Los Angeles, Cleveland, Miami, and >Philadelphia. Yet, families were not substantially better off >financially, even though many parents went to work. > >Does Making Work Pay Still Pay?: >An Update on the Effects of Four Earnings Supplement Programs on >Employment, Earnings, and Income > >http://www.mdrc.org/sps/go.cgi?c=xblfu1lIQMN3JKliznCb > >Four programs that supplemented the earnings of low-income adults >increased employment, earnings, and income - particularly for long-term >welfare recipients and those with less education and work experience. >While the effects generally faded after the programs ended, these >earnings supplement programs achieved their goals of increasing both >work and income, and their effects on income and poverty would likely >have been sustained if the supplements had been offered for a longer >period. > > >MDRC NEWS > >Report on Minnesota Family Investment Program Featured in Minneapolis >Star-Tribune Editorial > >http://www.mdrc.org/sps/go.cgi?c=wVvhC6vQ_oCGZloNrhBd > > >Thank you for your interest in MDRC and our research. Please feel free >to forward this announcement to others. >------------------------------------------------ > >You may remove yourself from our mailing lists, modify your contact >information, or sign up to receive announcements about new MDRC releases >on particular subjects on our E-mail updates page at >http://www.mdrc.org/sps/visitor.cgi.
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