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 f9CKIf029891; Fri, 12 Oct 2001 16:18:41 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 16:18:41 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <p05001908b7ecff98bae6@[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:322] HandsNet resources X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Status: O Content-Length: 4078 Lines: 76 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, visit WebClipper at http://www.webclipper.org. Free trial WebClipper memberships are available on our public site at http://www.handsnet.org. ************************************ OCTOBER 12, 2001 PROFILE OF THE WORKING POOR SERVED BY AMERICA'S SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANKS - America's Second Harvest reports that 39% of the households that receive emergency food from their network have at least one adult working. In the last decade, hunger-relief agencies have found that the greatest increase in hungry Americans has been among the working poor. Nearly 15 million people in the U.S. are members of working poor families, including more that 8.5 million children in working poor families. http://www.secondharvest.org/whoshungry/working_poor.html TANF FUNDING AND STATE CHILD CARE SUBSIDY PROGRAMS - Center for Law and Social Policy describes the growing use by states of federal welfare block grant dollars to help fund child care subsidy programs and to assist low-income working families with child care needs. The report explains how states may use TANF block grant dollars for child care and includes recommendations for the reauthorization of TANF and the Child Care and Development Fund block grants in 2002. http://www.clasp.org/pubs/childcare/TANFChildCareFullReport.pdf WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT: Employment Retention and Advancement Under TANF - A Technical Paper written for the W.K. Kellogg Foundation's Devolution Initiative says a review of developments since 1996 suggests both the strengths and the limitations of the work first approach. http://www.clasp.org/pubs/jobseducation/technical%20paper.pdf WORKFORCE INVESTMENT ACT: Better Guidance Needed - Although the act's mandatory partners are making efforts, the GAO reports a continued lack of agency integration at one-stop agencies and decreased training options for job-seekers. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d0272.pdf A REPORT FROM THE FIELD: Workforce Stakeholders on the Local Impact of Federal Policies - Many of the GAO concerns were documented in a Workforce Alliance study conducted earlier this year with training providers, business leaders, and local public officials from throughout the country. Publication of that study is scheduled for this fall. If you would like a copy of the final report contact Christin Driscoll, 202/339-9339, christind@workforcealliance.org FINDINGS FROM THE ANNIE E. CASEY FOUNDATION'S JOBS INITIATIVE - The Jobs Initiative used a comprehensive workforce development approach to improve the odds for disadvantaged parents to get and keep the kind of jobs that enable them to support their families with their earnings. Some implications for future welfare policies s include making family poverty reduction an explicit welfare goal, sustaining the level of federal TANF funding to the states, and ensuring that welfare recipients have access to education and training. http://www.aecf.org/jobsinitiative/ladders.pdf LOW WAGE WORKERS IN THE NEW ECONOMY - A collection of essays edited by Jobs for the Future's Richard Kazis and Marc Miller explores how our nation can help these and all working Americans pull themselves out of poverty through work. Commissioned for a national conference organized by JFF, seventeen chapters by leading experts describe the extent and contours of the challenge facing our nation's working poor, draw lessons from practice and policy about promising approaches to helping low-wage workers advance into the economic mainstream, and recommend both principles and specific policy interventions for state and federal policymakers. Introductory chapter and table of contents can be downloaded at: http://www.jff.org/programs/cluster3/careeradvstrat.html Order online from Urban Institute Press: http://www.urban.org/pubs/low_wage/index.html
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