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 g0LFxvn00350; Mon, 21 Jan 2002 10:59:57 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 10:59:57 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <p05001905b871eacc2816@[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:391] HandsNet resources X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Status: O Content-Length: 3210 Lines: 67 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. ************************************ JANUARY 18, 2002 SHARED WORK, VALUED CARE: New Norms for Organizing Market Work and Unpaid Care Work - More women are working now than ever before. Yet we as a society have done nothing to help families handle the mounting conflict between work and family responsibilities. Economic Policy Institute reports on what the U.S. can learn from other industrialized nations about policies that make work more family friendly: working from home, reduced hours and job sharing, greater flexibility in work schedules, paid parental leave, career-track jobs for women and on-site day care. http://www.epinet.org/press/releases/swvc010902.html HUD'S INTERIM ASSESSMENT OF THE EMPOWERMENT ZONES AND ENTERPRISE COMMUNITIES PROGRAM: A Progress Report - Results have been mixed for the first 5 years of the program; businesses in the six EZs made little use of the program's Federal tax incentives. http://www.huduser.org/publications/econdev/ezec_rpt.html NEW EMPOWERMENT ZONES - Pulaski County, Arkansas; Fresno, California; Jacksonville, Florida; Syracuse, New York; Yonkers, New York; Oklahoma City; and San Antonio will receive regulatory relief and tax breaks to help local businesses provide more jobs and promote community revitalization. The announcement brings to 30 the total number of empowerment zones in urban areas of the country. http://www.hud.gov/news/release.cfm?content=pr02-008.cfm There also are 10 rural empowerment zones, including those in Aroostook County, Maine, and in a five-county region along Texas' border with Mexico that were announced last week by USDA. http://www.usda.gov/news/releases/2002/01/0007.htm For more on HUD's Empowerment Zones, visit: http://www.hud.gov/offices/cpd/ezec/index.cfm FULL EMPLOYMENT: Don't Give It Up Without a Fight - Policy makers have tended to view the recent rise in unemployment as a "return" to a normal, sustainable rate. The cost of taking this misguided notion seriously is high, and it is a cost that falls disproportionately on the working class says a new working paper from Economic Policy Institute. At full employment the number of workers seeking jobs matches up neatly with the needs of employers; the supply of and demand for labor are in equilibrium, and the labor force is fully utilized. http://www.epinet.org/Workingpapers/full-employment.html -- ****************** 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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