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 f61GOLf03710; Sun, 1 Jul 2001 12:24:21 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2001 12:24:21 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <p05001903b764fe72d19b@[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:229] HandsNet resources X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Status: O Content-Length: 2325 Lines: 51 The information below 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. ************************************ JUNE 29, 2001 ISSUE GUIDE ON POVERTY MEASUREMENT AND BASIC FAMILY BUDGETS - A new online resource from Economic Policy Institute includes data, charts, fact sheets, links and more. http://www.epinet.org/Issueguides/poverty/poverty.html WASHINGTON WORKFIRST FAMILIES SEE LITTLE WAGE GROWTH - While Washington State's WorkFirst program relies on a philosophy that welfare recipients' best chance of moving up the wage ladder is to get job experience, a new state report found that Workfirst participants had much less wage growth than similar low-paid workers in the retail, service and health-care industries. 55% of those who left welfare in 1997 were still living below poverty at the end of 2000. http://seattlep-i.nwsource.com/local/29067_welfare27.shtml KENTUCKY WELFARE-TO-WORK INSTITUTE REACHES FAMILIES WITH SEVERE BARRIERS TO SELF-SUFFICIENCY - A University of Kentucky based project works with women whose battles with domestic violence, substance abuse, earning problems and mental health interfere with their ability to get and keep jobs. http://www.kentuckyconnect.com/heraldleader/news/062701/statedocs/27Welfare.htm SAN JOSE ACADEMIES TRAIN HOMELESS AND POOR FOR HIGH-TECH JOBS - An experiment to grow technology workers near Silicon Valley has taken root in one of the city's poorest neighborhoods and the area's largest homeless shelter. http://www0.mercurycenter.com:80/premium/local/docs/techgrads24a.htm -- ****************** 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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