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- Welfare to Work: a Good Idea? - Earn money by arguing on TheFence.com, the Internet's debate destination. Everything from politics to pop culture. We even rank you in six debate stats. Which side of The Fence are you on?
- How The Welfare State Works! - A conservative commentary on the socially disastrous consequences of the modern welfare state.
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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).
- 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.
- Almanac of Policy Issues: Welfare
- Comprehensive background information and links on the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program and U.S. federal welfare policy generally.
- Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP): Federal TANF Page
- Summaries and analysis of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program.
- Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP): State TANF Implementation and Waivers Page
- Summaries and analysis of state welfare programs and waivers.
- Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
- Liberal/progressive organization that tracks welfare and other low-income issues from a budget perspective.
- 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.
- 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).
- 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.
- Heritage Foundation: Welfare
- Research and related welfare information from the Heritage Foundation, a well-known conservative policy think tank.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- National Association of Counties: Welfare Reform Clearinghouse
- Publications and other information on welfare reform from the National Association of Counties (NACO).
- 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.
- 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.
- UPM against Poverty SA
- Un(der)employed people's site in Australia with info, links, newsletter and events, to give a voice to groups on low income, social security recipients
- Urban Institute
- Policy think tank that tracks welfare, Social Security, Medicare, and other domestic policy issues.
- Welfare Information Network (WIN)
- A clearinghouse for information, policy analysis and technical assistance on welfare reform.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Welfare Rights Advocacy Pages
- Addresses the failures of the social service system and offers advice for struggling clients.
- Welfare Rights Organizing Coalition
- Coalition of families who currently receive Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF).
- 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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Last update: 19:17 PT, Thursday, January 25, 2001
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