[NIFL-WORKPLACE:3223] xpsot- Thursday Notes, 1/6/00

From: Heidi Watson (haw6@psu.edu)
Date: Wed Jan 05 2000 - 18:44:11 EST


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This message is a crosspost of the Thursday notes.

>  From the Desk of Ronald S. Pugsley, Director, DAEL
 Office of Vocational and Adult Education
> Editor: Sarah Newcomb
> Production: Rose Tilghman
> 
> January 6, 2000
> ___________________________________
> 
> WtW Changes Help Adult Ed
> 
> New regulations concerning eligibility for the Welfare to Work program
> being implemented by the Department of Labor may free up more funding for
> adult education. Regulations for the 1999 WtW Amendments remove several
> eligibility tests required for the 70% contained in the Labor-HHS-ED FY 00
> Appropriations bill. They make TANF recipients eligible if they have
> received assistance for at least 30 months (consecutive or not), are
> within 12 months of reaching their TANF time limit, or have exhausted
> their receipt of TANF. The amendments also add several categories of
> eligibility under the 30% provision, including: 1) TANF recipients who
> have significant barriers to self-sufficiency under criteria established
> by the PIC; 2) youth 18-25 who have "aged out" of foster care; and 3)
> custodial parents with incomes below the poverty line. For more, go to
> http://www.doleta.gov
> 
> Corrections Funding Down, Inmates Up
> 
> Corrections programs take note. While WIA reduces the share of adult
> education funding that can go to support programs for institutionalized
> persons, as of New Year's Day there are almost two million adults in US
> prisons and jails, Newsday reports. That figure is nearly 725 inmates for
> every 100,000 Americans. Data from the new study by the Justice Policy
> Institute here, quoted in Newsday, show the prison population will be well
> over the 2 million mark by the end of this century's first year. The
> study, The Punishing Decade: Prison and Jail estimates at the Millennium
> also says that the cost of housing inmates will soon exceed $40 billion.
> Check this out at http://www.cjcj.org
> 
> ____________________________________________________________
> 
> A Fact Sheet from the Division of Adult Education and Literacy
> Office of Vocational and Adult Education
> OVAE Homepage http://www.ed.gov/offices/OVAE/
Heidi Watson 
Nifl Workplace-Co moderator
>  

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