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 f6AKoCf21034; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 16:50:12 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 16:50:12 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <p05001907b7711a5ba225@[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:241] HandsNet's WebClipper Digest 7/6/2001 X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Status: O Content-Length: 2246 Lines: 48 HandsNet WebClipper Digest The following information 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. ************************************ JULY 6, 2001 AFTER WELFARE REFORM: Trends in Poverty and Emergency Service Use in Massachusetts - Researchers from UMass-Boston find average family income for the bottom 40% is no higher than it was in the beginning years of the economic recovery; poverty rates for families have dropped only slightly; child poverty rates and the percentage of families who are very poor have increased; and the use of emergency housing and food services has grown. Growth in earnings has been almost completely offset by the loss of public support, which in turn has strained the private sector emergency support system. http://www.mccormack.umb.edu/publications/index.htm RESHAPING WELFARE IN NEW JERSEY: Lessons from the Implementation of Work First New Jersey - Mathematica examines how local agencies have adapted WFNJ/TANF to their own counties, finding that integration between the welfare and workforce systems could be improved and that services for the hard to employ are not offered consistently. http://www.mathematica-mpr.com/PDFs/redirect.asp?strSite=wfnjprogram.pdf CLASP 2001 AUDIO CONFERENCE JULY 13 - Low Wages in the New Economy: Implications for Families - The July 13 call is on Job Instability: How Does the Income See-Saw Play Out for Children? http://www.clasp.org/audioconference/brochure.html#instability -- ****************** 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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