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Reports
Moving to More Compassionate and Effective Assistance
Evaluating Challenges and Barriers In New York State’s Welfare System
A Report by the Hunger Action Network of New York State
September 2010
Funding Provided by the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation
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Making New Roads from Welfare to Work: Ramping Up Subsidized Employment
and Community Jobs Programs in New York State
By Andreas Kriefall and Mark Dunlea, Hunger Action Network of NYS
September 2010
Funding Provided by the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation
Executive Summary
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Hunger Action Network Releases Report on a Decade of Welfare Reform
Calls for Jobs to be more Central for Welfare to Work Effort
The 95 page report - Evaluating a Decade of Welfare Reform in New York State: Putting Jobs into New York’s Welfare to Work Program – includes a survey with hundreds of present and former welfare participants about their experiences with the state’s welfare to work programs. It also summarizes other reports done at the state, national and international level on workfare, education, transitional jobs and other welfare to work program.
The report outlines how New York can restructure its state welfare programs to be more effective in helping welfare participants find employment, especially at a time when a majority of participants have multiple barriers to employment. This includes several bills presently pending before the State legislature. The report also calls for the Governor to make poverty more of a focus of his Economic Security Cabinet.
At Hunger Action’s request, the State Assembly held public hearings last November on the State’s welfare to work programs. Unfortunately, New York has done a poor job with its welfare to work efforts, as has been documented in study after study. Even the federal government ranks the overall effectiveness of the state’s welfare to work effort as one of the worst in the country. Like many states, New York’s elected officials have sought to evaluate success primarily by looking at the reduction in welfare caseloads rather than reduction in poverty. Individuals who have left welfare for work in New York have not escaped poverty due to low wages and limited hours and benefits.
Executive Summary
Press Release
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- Growing
a Healthy NY: Innovative Food Projects that End Hunger and Strengthen
Communities. manual
| addendum
This manual features 24 programs that increase access to fresh
food, promote economic development, and unite people with local
farmers. Also Download
Project Interest Flyer.
- Profiles
of Model CSA Projects in NY State gives detailed stories of
nine New York CSA's that have reached out to include low-income
members.
- Reaching
Out is a report based on the results of Hunger Action's 2004
statewide survey of CSA farmers.
- "Obesity,
Poverty, and the Case for Community Supported Agriculture"
is a paper that provides an overview of obesity in our state and
nation, analyzes the link between poverty and obesity, and highlights
how CSAs help address this growing concern.
- REPORT
FINDS MORE THAN 20% INCREASE IN DEMAND FOR EMERGENCY FOOD
- 2002
Survey of Emergency Food Programs - The Hunger Action Network
of New York State conducted
a survey of Emergency Food Programs throughout the state to examine
hunger trends and programmatic changes from September of 2001
to September of 2002.
- Lack
of Skills and Education in the Empire State: Low-Income New Yorkers
Need Increased Access to School and Vocational Training Programs
Executive Summary
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- 2002-2004
County Public Assistance and Food Stamp Employment Plan
Policy Guide
Revised edition: February 2002
- Assessing
the Effectiveness of Welfare-to-Work Programs in New York State:
Recommendations for Economic Security - A Survey of the Performance
of New York State's Welfare-to-Work Programs According to Its
Participants
June 2001
- Bridging
the Gap
Transitional Benefits - what are they? An overview and survey
of 15 Counties
Includes:
Albany, Broome, Chemung, Dutchess, Erie, Greene, Monroe, Nassau,New
York City, Oneida, Saratoga, Schenectady, Suffolk, Washington,
and Westchester Counties.
Articles
Other
Information
Seven
New York Communities Received HANNYS Minigrants for Innovative Food
Projects in Spring 2003!
"RECLAIMING THE POWER TO FEED OURSELVES"
For Immediate Release 6/4/2003
For more detailed project descriptions:
Minigrants Spring 2003 Announcement
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