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 g1JJxKu12034; Tue, 19 Feb 2002 14:59:20 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 14:59:20 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <p05001912b8985d66bf0b@[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:417] HandsNet resources X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Status: O Content-Length: 4212 Lines: 80 HandsNet WebClipper Digest 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 15, 2002 COVERING THE UNINSURED LAUNCHES NATIONAL CAMPAIGN - 13 major organizations representing business, labor, doctors, nurses, hospitals, health care consumers and other Americans are sponsoring a $10 million national advertising campaign and new web site to raise awareness of the challenges facing the 39 million Americans with no health insurance and to seek solutions. A report from Families USA finds estimates two million Americans lost health insurance in 2001, the largest one-year increase in nearly a decade. According to the Center for Studying Health System Change, health care spending rose 7.2% in 2000, the largest jump in a decade. http://www.coveringtheuninsured.org/ HOUSE STALLS EXTENSION OF UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS AS 80,000 UNEMPLOYED WORKERS EXHAUST THEIR BENEFITS EACH WEEK - Center on Budget and Policy Priorities reports data for every state on the growing number of long-term jobless workers who have exhausted their benefits. http://www.cbpp.org/2-14-02ui.htm. SLOW GROWTH WON'T STOP RISING UNEMPLOYMENT - For working families to begin to recover from the current downturn, the economy must grow by at least 3.0% to 3.5% to prevent unemployment from rising, writes Economic Policy Institute. Estimates of a spring 2002 recovery are quite consistent with unemployment rising to 6.5% by late 2002. If, as we suspect, growth will be slow in 2003, then the unemployment rate will likely stay at 6.0% and above, which is well above the low levels of unemployment achieved at the end of the last recovery. http://www.epinet.org/briefingpapers/bp121.html CONGRESSIONAL TESTIMONY ON WORKING POOR: One in Five Fulltime Low-wage Workers Can't Afford Basic Necessities - Among the families that went from welfare to full-time, full-year employment in 1997, 29% suffered hardships; in 1999, the hardship rate for welfare-to-work families reached 45%, EPI economist Heather Boushey told a U.S. Senate committee in testimony on the needs of the working poor. Basic family budgets vary by geographic region across the U.S., ranging from $21,989 per year in Hattiesburg, MI to $48,606 in New York's Nassau and Suffolk counties for a one-parent working family with two children under twelve. http://www.epinet.org/webfeatures/viewpoints/boushey_testimony_20020214.html HHS 2002 POVERTY GUIDELINES ANNOUNCED - Used in determining financial eligibility for certain federal programs. For a family of three in the 48 contiguous states and D.C., the 2002 HHS Poverty Guideline is $15,020 (add $3,080 for each additional person). http://aspe.hhs.gov/poverty/02poverty.htm WELFARE REFORM: Families, Children, and the Hard-to-Employ - The Joint Center for Poverty Research hosts a congressional briefing Feb 27, 8:45-11:00 a.m., Rayburn Building, room B318, Washington, DC. LaDonna Pavetti, Mathematica Policy Research, will present current work on hard-to-employ families. Kathryn Edin, Northwestern University, will present findings from the Urban Change project. Pamela Morris, MDRC, will summarize evidence on the effects of welfare programs on children and adolescents. Seating is limited. Please RSVP by Feb 22 either online or contact Matthew Mohlenkamp 773-702-0472, jcpr@uchicago.edu. http://www.jcpr.org/conf_event.html STATES CONTINUE TO MEET WELFARE REFORM'S WORK PARTICIPATION RULES - HHS reports that for the fourth consecutive year all states continue to meet the federal welfare reform law's overall work participation rates. Since 1992, there has been a fivefold increase in the percentage of welfare recipients who are working. Nationally, the percentage of working welfare recipients reached 33% in 2000. http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2002pres/20020214.html
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