- Welfare-Mom Homepage - http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/1064/
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.
- HandsNet - http://www.handsnet.org/
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.
- Welfare Law Center - http://www.welfarelaw.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.
- UPM against Poverty SA - http://www.webcom.com/ausisle/upm/
Provides information, links, newsletter, and events calendar.
- Welfare Rights Advocacy Pages - http://www.angelfire.com/wa2/WRAP/index.html
Addresses the failures of the social service system and offers advice for struggling clients.
- Urban Institute - http://www.urban.org/
Policy think tank that tracks welfare, Social Security, Medicare, and other domestic policy issues.
- Almanac of Policy Issues: Welfare - http://www.policyalmanac.org/social_welfare/welfare.shtml
Background information and links on the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program and U.S. federal welfare policy generally.
- Joint Center for Poverty Research - http://www.jcpr.org/
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.
- Welfare Rights Organizing Coalition - http://www.wroc.org/
Seattle-based coalition of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) recipients. Includes newsletter, fact sheets, and event announcements.
- Heritage Foundation: Welfare - http://www.heritage.org/Research/Welfare/
Research and related welfare information from the Heritage Foundation, a conservative policy think tank.
- MDRC - http://www.mdrc.org/
Multiple reports regarding welfare and welfare reform from this nonprofit, nonpartisan social policy research organization
- Walk a Mile Project - http://www.walkamile.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.
- Emergency Committee to Defend Constitutional Welfare Rights - http://www.geocities.com/welfarerights/
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).
- Social Policy: Welfare, Society and the State - http://www2.rgu.ac.uk/publicpolicy/introduction/index.htm
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.
- Welfare Information Network (WIN) - http://www.financeprojectinfo.org/WIN/
A clearinghouse for information, policy analysis and technical assistance on welfare reform.
- Moving Ideas: Welfare - http://www.movingideas.org/content/en/issue_items/poverty_and_wealth/welfare.htm
Studies and reports on USA welfare issues from a liberal perspective.
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