Sponsored Links
Children In Poverty
You can help. Make a difference at ChildFund International. Visit now.
www.childfund.org
GE Healthcare Research
GE's Better Healthcare Initiatives Learn More At Healthymagination.com
www.healthymagination.com
Government Cell Phone
Free government cell phone program with Free monthly minutes! SafeLink
www.safelinkwireless.com
Directory Sites
Dedicated to issues of importance to low-income families. Welfare myth-busting, original features, and resources for parents, kids, and job-seekers. Covers single-parent, working class, public policy and feminist issues.
www.geocities.com
An online community of nonprofit organizations concerned with low-income issues. Includes articles and alerts from participating organizations, some of which relate to welfare and workfare.
www.handsnet.org
Welfare Law Center: Low Income Networking and Communications (LINC) Project
Where low-income organizers can come together to combat the shredding of the social safety net and have their efforts represented.
www.lincproject.org
Works with and on behalf of low-income people to ensure that adequate income support -- public funding provided on the basis of need -- is available whenever and to the extent necessary to meet basic needs and foster healthy human and family development.
www.welfarelaw.org
Administration for Children and Families Office of Family Assistance
The federal agency that administers the federal government's primary welfare program, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF).
www.acf.dhhs.gov
Addresses the failures of the social service system and offers advice for struggling clients.
www.angelfire.com
Policy think tank that tracks welfare, Social Security, Medicare, and other domestic policy issues.
www.urban.org
Almanac of Policy Issues: Welfare
Background information and links on the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program and U.S. federal welfare policy generally.
www.policyalmanac.org
Joint Center for Poverty Research
A national and interdisciplinary research institute that examines what it means to be poor in America. Features academic research written for a lay audience on a variety of topics, including welfare programs, education, health, housing, employment, and crime.
www.jcpr.org
Welfare Rights Organizing Coalition
Seattle-based coalition of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) recipients. Includes newsletter, fact sheets, and event announcements.
www.wroc.org
Research and related welfare information from the Heritage Foundation, a conservative policy think tank.
www.heritage.org
Multiple reports regarding welfare and welfare reform from this nonprofit, nonpartisan social policy research organization
www.mdrc.org
Training materials, discussion board, and links for Walk a Mile, which trains local organizations to sponsor "Walk a Mile" projects that bring together policymakers with their low-income constituents to promote dialogue and understanding.
www.walkamile.org
Emergency Committee to Defend Constitutional Welfare Rights
Establishes basis in U.S. Constitution and obligatory international law for right to decent relief for the involuntarily unemployed and that "workfare" as practised is prohibited involuntary servitude (forced labor).
www.geocities.com
Social Policy: Welfare, Society and the State
Social policy is the study of the welfare state, and the range of responses to social need. This is a brief introduction to the subject.
www2.rgu.ac.uk