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 f6NF5Rf23722; Mon, 23 Jul 2001 11:05:27 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 11:05:27 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <v04210102b780b48846e3@[130.203.162.208]> 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: Barbara Van Horn <blv1@psu.edu> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-workplace@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-WORKPLACE:249] HandsNet resources X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Status: O Content-Length: 1725 Lines: 36 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. REAL TEST OF WELFARE REFORM LIES AHEAD - In a NY Times Op/Ed, Harvard and Johns Hopkins researchers who are tracking a random sample of 2,458 families to monitor the consequences of the law, write that three-fourths of the women they spoke to in 1999 who had been off welfare for two years or less had incomes below the federal poverty line. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/13/opinion/13WILS.html WELFARE REFORM AFTER FIVE YEARS: Through the Eyes of Former Welfare Recipients & Reporters - The next Brookings Welfare Reform & Beyond public forum will be held August 2. http://www.brookings.edu/wrb JOB PERFORMANCE AND RETENTION AMONG WELFARE RECIPIENTS - A working paper from Joint Center for Poverty Research finds most welfare recipients perform as well or better than employees in comparable jobs, and that their turnover rates appear fairly low. Still, absenteeism is pervasive, and often linked to child care/transportation problems. http://www.jcpr.org/wp/WPprofile.cfm?ID=257 The August 2001 Issue of JCPR's Poverty Research News includes articles on the changing well-being of families over the last decade, how welfare reform is playing out in welfare offices, and he effectiveness of going back to school for displaced workers. http://www.jcpr.org/newsletters/vol5_no4/index.html
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