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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).
www.acf.dhhs.gov/programs/ofa
- Administration for Children and Families: Welfare Reform - Welfare reform page for the Administration for Children and Families, the federal agency charged with implementing the federal welfare program.
www.acf.dhhs.gov/news/welfare/index.htm
- 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/social_welfare/welfare.shtml
- Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP): Federal TANF Page - Summaries and analysis of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program.
www.clasp.org/pubs/TANF/tanffederal.htm
- Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP): State TANF Implementation and Waivers Page - Summaries and analysis of state welfare programs and waivers.
www.clasp.org/pubs/TANFSTATE/tanfstate.htm
- Center on Budget and Policy Priorities - Liberal/progressive organization that tracks welfare and other low-income issues from a budget perspective.
www.cbpp.org
- Coalition on Human Needs: Welfare - Background information, legislative analyses, status reports on pending bills, and links on welfare issues from the Coalition on Human Needs, a coalition of major U.S. anti-poverty organizations.
www.chn.org/welfare
- 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.welfarerights.org
- HandsNet - HandsNet is an online community of (mostly liberal/progressive) nonprofit organizations concerned with low-income issues. The site includes articles and alerts from participating organizations, many of which relate to welfare and workfare.
www.handsnet.org
- Heritage Foundation: Welfare - Research and related welfare information from the Heritage Foundation, a well-known conservative policy think tank.
www.heritage.org/library/welfare.html
- Hudson Institute's Welfare Reform Policy Center - Hudson Institute's Welfare Reform Policy Center researches welfare reform activity around the nation, conducts research, evaluates the effectiveness of work-based reforms and improves them, and facilitates policy meetings and project developments.
www.welfarereformer.org
- Idea Central: Welfare and Families - Studies and reports on welfare from a liberal perspective. Idea Central is part of the Electronic Policy Network, a project of The American Prospect magazine.
epn.org/idea/welfare.html
- 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
- Making Connections Training Manual - A manual for West Virginia outreach workers helping families make the transition from welfare to work.
www.pleasantscounty.net/connections
- Mathematica Policy Research - Research and analysis of welfare and work-related programs by Mathematica Policy Research, a for-profit research organization.
www.mathematica-mpr.com/welfare.htm
- Mathematica Research: Research on Welfare and Work - Research and analysis of welfare and work-related programs by Mathematica Research, a respected for-profit research organization.
www.mathematica-mpr.com/WELFARE.HTM
- MDRC: Welfare Reform - Evaluations of welfare reform by the Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation (MDRC). Covers the entire range of welfare studies, from the nation's largest social experiments testing welfare-to-work strategies to a wide range of implementation studies and technical assistance to states and localities in adopting best practices.
www.mdrc.org/welfare_reform.htm
- Midwest Partners - Regional coalition of northern mid-western communities focusing on welfare reform; includes membership information, advocacy tools, TANF resources and conference information.
www.midwestpartners.org
- National Association of Counties: Welfare Reform Clearinghouse - Publications and other information on welfare reform from the National Association of Counties (NACO).
www.naco.org/programs/social/welfare
- Social Policy Action Network (SPAN) - SPAN develops effective social policy for low income children and their families. SPAN is a project of the Tides Foundation.
www.span-online.org
- 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.
www.dundee.ac.uk/politics/socialpolicy
- UPM against Poverty SA - Un(der)employed people's site in Australia with information, links, newsletter and events, to give a voice to groups on low income, and social security recipients.
www.webcom.com/ausisle/upm
- Urban Institute - Policy think tank that tracks welfare, Social Security, Medicare, and other domestic policy issues.
www.urban.org
- Welfare Information Network (WIN) - A clearinghouse for information, policy analysis and technical assistance on welfare reform.
www.welfareinfo.org/index.html
- 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.
www.welfarelaw.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
- Welfare Made a Difference Campaign - Seeks to reshape public perception about and public policy relating to welfare by sharing stories of people who have received welfare and struggled out of poverty.
www.wmadcampaign.org
- Welfare Rights Advocacy Pages - Addresses the failures of the social service system and offers advice for struggling clients.
www.angelfire.com/wa2/WRAP/index.html
- Welfare Rights Organizing Coalition - Coalition of families who currently receive Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF).
www.scn.org/activism/wroc
- 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.
www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/1064
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