Return-Path: <nifl-workplace@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id f2OJ0Mg02007; Sat, 24 Mar 2001 14:00:22 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 14:00:22 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <p05001901b6e29caa8a62@[146.186.96.31]> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-workplace@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-workplace@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-workplace@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: Barb Van Horn <blv1@psu.edu> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-workplace@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-WORKPLACE:112] WebClipper resources X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Status: O Content-Length: 1809 Lines: 44 The following information is drawn from the HandsNet WebClipper Digest, HandsNet's weekly overview of cross-cutting human services news from throughout the World Wide Web. ************************************ For information about the WebClipper Digest, contact: Sue Dormanen HandsNet Editor sdormanen@handsnet.org OMB WATCH offers free email lists to keep you up to date on the federal budget and other governmental issues affecting the nonprofit sector. http://www.ombwatch.org/forum.html STATES WAVER ON WELFARE REFORM'S NEXT STEP - Having reached their welfare-reduction targets, some states are doing little to push reform to the next level: helping the newly employed succeed in the long term. Advocates for welfare recipients cite $8 billion slated for state programs that has not been used at all because states haven't decided what to do with it. As momentum toward devolution grows, the system is likely to get a harder look, reports the Christian Science Monitor. http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/2001/03/19/p2s1.htm WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO MAKE IT IN AMERICA? - The Ford Foundation reports on a new frontier for welfare reform in the U.S.: the Self-Sufficiency Standard, which measures how much low-income working families need to make it in today's economy. http://www.fordfound.org/publications/ff_report/view_ff_report_detail.cfm?report_index=261 -- ****************** 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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