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 f3NL9mg15528; Mon, 23 Apr 2001 17:09:48 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 17:09:48 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <p0500190cb70a494151e3@[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:146] resources from HandsNet's WebClipper Digest X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Status: O Content-Length: 4455 Lines: 84 The WebClipper Digest is 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. IMPLEMENTING WELFARE REFORM IN RURAL COMMUNITIES - An Urban Institute paper examines how areas with sparse populations, mostly rural areas, responded to the welfare changes introduced with PRWORA. http://www.urban.org/welfare/rural-welfarereform.html DEPRESSION AND LOW-INCOME WOMEN: Challenges for TANF and Welfare-to-Work Policies and Programs - A new Research Forum publication reviews the literature on the prevalence, treatment, and consequences of depression in low-income women, especially the relationship of depression to welfare and employment. It includes consequences for children, access to treatment, screening and assessment, and implications for research and policy. http://www.researchforum.org/newsletter/Depression410.pdf EVALUATING WELFARE REFORM IN AN ERA OF TRANSITION - While numerous studies monitor the progress of families leaving welfare, research that measures the effects of specific welfare reform policies in sufficient detail to guide future policymaking is lacking, says a report from the National Research Council. http://books.nap.edu/books/0309072743/html/ SOCIAL SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS AND WELFARE REFORM - In a survey of Cleveland, Los Angeles, Miami-Dade and Philadelphia, Manpower Demonstration Research Corp. finds local social service agencies and welfare offices need more information about specific timetables and eligibility rules to help welfare families avoid sanctions and access benefits. Many food banks, soup kitchens and homeless shelters are at capacity and uncertain how they will meet increased demand due to sanctions and time limits put in place by welfare reform. http://www.mdrc.org/Reports2001/UC-SocialService/UCSocialServicesOrg&WelReform.htm FACES OF CHANGE: Personal Experiences of Welfare Reform in America - The Alliance for Children and Families identifies six areas where families continue to need support: child care, employment, health care, job training, public assistance and transportation. For a print copy of the report, email Erika Tomlinson, etomlinson@alliance1.org. UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE AND UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE: A COMPARISON - UI and UA have primary objectives that are fundamentally different. While both make payments occasioned by unemployment, UI goes to persons as a matter of right while UA is paid to only to families with unemployment whose income and assets fall below designated thresholds. An Urban Institute paper compares the two as alternative ways to protect workers against the effects of unemployment. http://www.urban.org/employment/ui_and_ua.html FAMILY SELF-SUFFICIENCY PROGRAM: HUD's Best Kept Secret for Promoting Employment and Asset Growth - Despite the many potential advantages of this employment and savings incentive program for low-income families that have Section 8 vouchers or live in public housing, it is currently underutilized says a report from The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities that offers suggestions for overcoming perceived or actual barriers to implementation or expansion of the program. http://www.cbpp.org/4-12-01hous.htm WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT FOR THE UNEMPLOYED AND LOW-WAGE WORKER: The Role of Postsecondary Education - A new working paper by Julie Strawn of Center for Law and Social Policy describes key policy issues in access to postsecondary education for low income workers and the unemployed and background on why these issues have taken on new urgency in light of recent developments in federal welfare and workforce development policy. http://www.clasp.org/pubs/jobseducation/low%20wage%20workers%20and%20postsecondary%20draft.PDF -- ****************** 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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