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 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. |
 Heritage Foundation: Welfare - http://www.heritage.org/Research/Welfare/ Research and related welfare information from the Heritage Foundation, a conservative policy think tank. |
 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. |
 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. |
 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. |
 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. |
 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. |
 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. |
 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). |
 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. |
 Administration for Children and Families Office of Family Assistance - http://www.acf.dhhs.gov/programs/ofa/ The federal agency that administers the federal government's primary welfare program, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF). |
 Welfare Law Center: Low Income Networking and Communications (LINC) Project - http://www.lincproject.org/ Where low-income organizers can come together to combat the shredding of the social safety net and have their efforts represented. |