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 g1JI4Iu04650; Tue, 19 Feb 2002 13:04:18 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 13:04:18 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <p05001919b8970e0ee8e4@[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:416] HandsNet resources X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Status: O Content-Length: 2796 Lines: 56 The following information 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. ************************************ FEBRUARY 8, 2002 SENATE APPROVES UI EXTENSION - The Senate this week shelved rival Democratic and Republican economic stimulus bills but approved -- without dissent -- a narrower proposal by Majority Leader Thomas Daschle (D-SD) to provide 13 more weeks of jobless benefits to laid-off workers who exhaust their 26 weeks of regular payments between Sept. 11, 2001, and the week of Jan. 6, 2003. Daschle noted that Congress always responds with extended benefits in a recession. About 5.6 million people would likely qualify for an estimated $10.8 billion in benefits. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35945-2002Feb6.html TWO MILLION WORKERS WILL LIKELY EXHAUST THEIR REGULAR UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BENEFITS IN FIRST HALF OF 2002 - This estimate represents a sharp increase over the number of workers who exhausted benefits in the first and second quarters of 2000, report Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. http://www.cbpp.org/2-6-02ui.htm THE WEAKENING LINK: UNEMPLOYMENT AND WELFARE CASELOADS - The first analysis of previously unreleased state welfare data shows welfare caseloads are increasing nationally but fall short of meeting the need created by the recession, providing evidence that the TANF-based safety net is not passing its first test says a new study from National Campaign for Jobs and Income Support. http://www.nationalcampaign.org/ REFORMING WELFARE: TAKE TWO - The recession is here, and we entered it with a severely weakened safety net, writes former U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services official Peter Edelman. But a wave of organizing in low-income communities over the past five years has strengthened the constituency for action. The aim in TANF reauthorization should be to transform the program nationally into what it has become in a handful of places: a ladder of opportunity for all low-income families, and a safety net for children in families who have lost jobs or have other problems that keep them from success in the job market. Welfare should be one part of a set of policies that promote a living income, grounded in the realities and limitations of low-wage jobs in America today; Edelman's in commentary for The Nation includes a list of link to groups committed to a campaign for real welfare reform. http://www.thenation.com//doc.mhtml?i=20020204&s=edelman
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