| Welfare-Mom Homepage - 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.
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| HandsNet - 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.
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| 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.
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| Welfare Law Center - 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.
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| UPM against Poverty SA - Provides information, links, newsletter, and events calendar.
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| 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).
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| Welfare Rights Advocacy Pages - Addresses the failures of the social service system and offers advice for struggling clients.
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| Urban Institute - An institute investigating and analysing U.S. social and economic problems and issues, including the New Federalism, welfare and welfare-to-work, Medicare, and disabilities issues.
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| 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.
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| Joint Center For Poverty Research - Located at the University of Chicago. Includes information on the official measures of, populations in, and myths of, poverty.
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| Welfare Rights Organizing Coalition - Seattle-based coalition of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) recipients. Includes newsletter, fact sheets, and event announcements.
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| Heritage Foundation: Welfare - Research and related welfare information from the Heritage Foundation, a conservative policy think tank.
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| MDRC - Multiple reports regarding welfare and welfare reform from this nonprofit, nonpartisan social policy research organization
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| Walk a Mile Project - 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.
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| 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).
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| 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.
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| The Moving Ideas Network - The virtual magazine of the Electronic Policy Network. Issues and commentary from a progressive perspective.
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| Welfare Information Network (WIN) - A clearinghouse for information, policy analysis and technical assistance on welfare reform.
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