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 g12L1vu19696; Sat, 2 Feb 2002 16:01:57 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2002 16:01:57 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <v04210102b88201cd85f5@[130.203.164.168]> 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:400] HandsNet resources X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Status: O Content-Length: 3785 Lines: 71 The following information is cross-posted 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. ************************************ FEBRUARY 1, 2002 UNEMPLOYMENT, THE UNINSURED AND MEDICAID - Two new fact sheets from Kaiser Family Foundation's Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured: *Rising Unemployment and the Uninsured - presents analysis showing that, for every percentage point increase in the unemployment rate, 1.2 million people will become uninsured. http://www.kff.org/content/2001/6011/6011.pdf * Medicaid Coverage During Times of Rising Unemployment - discusses how much an increase in unemployment would be likely to increase Medicaid enrollment and state Medicaid spending. http://www.kff.org/content/2001/4026/4026.pdf STATE OF THE STATES 2002 - National Priorities Project provides a quick-and-easy tool to compare the national rhetoric regarding federal spending priorities with the local reality, including a 2-page Grassroots Factsheet for all 50 states showing state needs in the context of federal spending priorities. The release also provides a media kit with sample press release, op-ed and letter-to-the-editor. http://www.nationalpriorities.org/sos2002/sos2002.html NUMBER OF WORKERS EXHAUSTING UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BENEFITS SETS RECORD LEVEL FOR A DECEMBER - In recent months, the number of unemployed workers who have exhausted their regular unemployment insurance benefits has climbed sharply, reports Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. In the fourth quarter of 2001, nearly 860,000 unemployed workers exhausted their regular unemployment benefits. None of them qualified for additional unemployment aid. http://www.cbpp.org/1-30-02ui.htm TANF REAUTHORIZATION BILL INTRODUCED IN HOUSE - Repr. Ben Cardin's (D-MD) "The Next Step in Reforming Welfare Act" (H.R. 3625) would reauthorize and improve TANF by increasing resources for job placement and advancement and by enhancing the program's focus on poverty reduction. It would increase the annual TANF block grant to states by more than 15%t to account for inflation increases, and would continue the current performance bonus given to states for promoting work, job retention, and employment advancement. States that reduce the number of children in poverty and the child poverty gap would receive new performance bonuses, emphasizing the shift toward poverty reduction as a major goal of the program. http://www.house.gov/cardin/Press_Releases_2002/summary_tanf_01242002.htm SCOPE AND IMPACT OF WELFARE REFORM'S IMMIGRANT PROVISIONS - For immigrants, welfare reform went well beyond conditioning access to cash benefits on work, setting out a comprehensive scheme for determining immigrant eligibility for a wide range of social benefits that are provided by governments at all levels. Reform represented a major departure from prior policy by making citizenship more central to the receipt of benefits, by granting the states rather than the federal government the power to determine immigrant eligibility for benefits, and by drawing a sharp distinction between immigrants arriving before and after PRWORA's enactment on August 22, 1996. A report from The Urban Institute discusses the changes introduced by this far-reaching law, the post-enactment responses of the Congress, the states, and the courts, and impacts the law has had on benefit use among immigrants. http://newfederalism.urban.org/html/discussion02-03.html
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