NLA Info: Reports on Food Stamps and Welfare

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[Cross-posted from the NIFL-Family electronic list]

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Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 16:19:40 -0500 (EST)
From: Barb Van Horn <blv1 at psu.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-family at literacy.nifl.gov>
Subject: [NIFL-FAMILY:3443] 2 reports on food stamps & welfare

Dear subscribers,

You may find the following reports applicable to the families you are 
serving in family literacy - information from HandsNet:

REACHING THOSE IN NEED: Estimates of State Food Stamp Participation - 
New research from Mathematica finds participation rates dropped 
significantly in every region of the country and most states between 
Sept 1994 and Sept 1998. By the end of that period, about 59% of 
eligible people in the U.S. received food stamps. For print copies 
call 609/275-2350
http://www.mathematica-mpr.com/PDFs/FNS1998rates.pdf

CRUEL AND USUAL: How Welfare "Reform" Punishes Poor People - A new 
survey from Applied Research Center uncovers disturbing trends: 
Welfare programs are less consistent than they used to be, and more 
likely to operate in a discriminatory way, creating "a crazy quilt of 
arbitrary rules." The survey reveals that welfare reforms enacted 
under the 1996 PRWORA  have led to discrimination in four areas: 
race, gender, language and national origin.
http://www.arc.org/welfare/cruel_report/news010201.html

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Barbara Van Horn
NIFL-WORKPLACE List Co-Moderator
Assistant Director
Institute for the Study of Adult 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 at PSU.EDU

"Moving adult literacy from the Margins to the Mainstream"


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