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 g0GKRh014011; Wed, 16 Jan 2002 15:27:53 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 15:27:53 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <p0500191bb86b905df59c@[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:386] HandsNet resources X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Status: O Content-Length: 4157 Lines: 82 The following information is crossposted 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. ************************************ JANUARY 11, 2002 PUBLIC OPINION ON POVERTY, INCOME INEQUALITY AND PUBLIC POLICY - Demos analyzes public opinion between 1996-2001 on issues related to poverty, income insecurity and public policy solutions -- drawing on close to two dozen surveys by non-profit organizations, media outlets and foundations. The report finds roughly half of Americans believe that a person being poor is due to a lack of individual effort, while the other half attribute poverty to external circumstances beyond individual control. Americans agree that work should be a cornerstone of anti-poverty efforts. But they also feel that individual effort alone is not enough to empower families and erase economic insecurity and they support policies that would both enable work and supplement earnings. http://www.demos-usa.org/Pubs/POReport/ STATE OF THE STATES 2001 - Stateline.org catalogs significant state-level developments on such key issues as healthcare, education, tax and budget policy, and more. For a free printed copy of "State of the States 2001," email your POSTAL mailing address to managingeditor@stateline.org FACES OF CHANGE: Personal Experiences of Welfare Reform in America - A "must read" for policy makers, advocates, human service professionals and those interested in the human dimensions of welfare reform. Alliance for Children and Families seeks an Advocacy Coordinator to lead a national advocacy effort to give saliency to the research results in Congress and the media and to provide information on the impact of welfare reform and the Alliance position on the re-authorization of TANF. http://www.alliance1.org/Membership/Careeropportunities.htm For more on the FACES OF CHANGE research project, see: http://www.alliance1.org/Research/fr_Research.asp?np=Facesofchange.asp SUPPORTS FOR WORKING POOR FAMILIES: A New Approach - Mathematica presents innovative policy options for improving access to state and federal work support programs, such as food stamps, Medicaid, child care, SCHIP, and the EITC, to help families leave poverty when they leave welfare for work. The authors argue that a new approach should be based on the principle of "do no harm," should include simple application procedures and eligibility determinations, and should be divorced from the welfare program and its stigma. The report proposes several options, including providing a nutrition tax credit in conjunction with the EITC, offering express food stamps, and marketing work supports through one stops and employers. http://www.mathematica-mpr.com/PDFs/redirect.asp?strSite=supportpoor.pdf IDENTITY, WORK AND PARENTING: Implications for Welfare Reform - Institute for Policy Research examines which parents are best able to cope and thrive under the new welfare rules and which are most likely to flounder. http://www.northwestern.edu/IPR/research/identity.pdf Center for Law and Social Policy has summarized and analyzed the HHS data and generated a set of state-by-state charts showing how each state used its TANF and MOE funds in FY 2000. CLASP reports most states spent less than half their TANF and MOE funds on Basic Assistance. The share of funds directed toward Education and Training is very low - less than one percent overall. http://www.clasp.org/pubs/TANF/FY00/Introduction.htm -- Barb Van Horn (M.Ed., Reading) Co-Director, Institute for the Study of Adult Literacy Co-Director, Goodling Institute for Research in Family Literacy College of Education, Penn State University 102 Rackley Building, University Park, PA 16802-3202 BLV1@PSU.EDU (e-mail) 814-865-5876 (phone) 814-863-6108 (fax) "Moving adult literacy from the Margins to the Mainstream"
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