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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.
Hunger Action 2009 State Legislative Agenda The State Legislature is scheduled to adjourn on June 22nd, though it may go a few days longer. Below is an update of various pieces of state legislation that Hunger Action is working on. This includes single payer health care; food stamps; access to education; Food Policy Council; Farmworker Rights; IDA reform; sustainable wage jobs; Green Jobs Green Homes; and EPIC. As always, contact is needed with your individual State Senators and Assemblymembers (especially those in the Majority) and Speaker Silver and Senate Majority leader Smith. Switchboard for the Assembly is 518 455-4100; For Senate 518 455-2800. Mailing addresses: State Assembly, LOB, Albany NY 12248; State Senate, LOB, Albany NY 12247. Governor: 518 474-8390, State Capitol, Albany NY 12224. Legislators in their local offices only on Friday.
Universal Health Care Advocates Call on President Obama to be Truthful with the American People about Health Care Reform and Single Payer Several of his spokespeople, including Robert Gibbs, stated yesterday that President Obama would not be considering a single payer program, the one plan that cuts costs the most, provides health care for all and has the strongest support among the public, doctors and nurses. While taking single payer off the table, President Obama and his staff however have repeatedly acknowledged that single payer would do the best job in providing health care to America. Even yesterday President Obama's spokespeople said that single payer was the plan that Obama would support if "he was starting from scratch."
Single Payer Healthcare Advocates to Rally at Capitol on May 27th Politicians Need to Protect the People, Not Health Insurance Companies Supporters of a single payer Medicare for All universal health care program will rally at the State Capitol on Wednesday May 27th at noon. This is a part of a national week of action around single payer health care.
Testimony of the Hunger Action Network of New York State on the NYS Health Department Budget Monday, Feb. 2, 2009
Testimony of the Hunger Action Network
Universal Health Care Advocates Urge President-elect Obama to Adopt the Single Payer Model (Albany) Single Payer New York, a coalition of doctors, nurses, labor, faith, and community groups, called today upon President-elect Barack Obama to propose a single payer universal health care system for the U.S. Obama has asked Americans to hold house meetings on health care during the last two weeks of December. The groups urged Obama to reject a Massachusetts style plan that mandates that individuals purchase health insurance. “America is at a crossroads and the people elected you to be an agent of change. You possess the power to make health care a right in America. Americans deserve the health benefits offered to the people of every other country in the industrialized world—all medically necessary care and freedom from the fear of economic ruin due to illness. The bottom line is that single payer is the one proposal that guarantees quality, affordable health care to every American. This would also be a great benefit to our economy in our time of crisis, helping to control costs for taxpayers, consumers and employers,” said Mike Keenan, President of the Troy Area Labor Council and health care advocate for the Capital District Area Labor Federation. more >
Healthy Community Harvest The Hunger Action Network has started a food processing business to help provide nutritional products to low-income families, provide job training and employment opportunities, and increase local markets for farmers. Below is some information about how you can order some jams and bread spreads for the holiday season. more >
Hunger Action Network has 2 office workspaces (11’ x 6’) available for immediate sublet at W. 36 Street @ 8 Ave. in Manhattan, includes use of small meeting room. $1,000/month plus half of utilities, carting and fees. Click for pictures. (212) 741-8192 ext 1#.
FACES OF HUNGER ACTION NETWORK:
Rick Worboys and his wife Victoria live in Rochester. Rick is active in EMPOWER,
a local welfare welfare rights
group. This is a story about one person’s
life on welfare, written by Bob Ingram
of EMPOWER. read >
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To email a letter to your NYS representative, click here >> __________ Hunger Action NYC 75 Varick St #1500 __________ Sign up to receive free Hunger Alert emails which are sent out every couple of months so you can keep informed about important issues affecting hungry and low-income New Yorkers.
You will need to have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your computer to read these documents. Acrobat Reader is FREE! Click HERE to download! Spitzer advances Food Stamp Initiative – Spitzer seeks to extend benefits to 100,000 families Hunger Alert – November 2008 We have postcards to send to state leaders on HPNAP, welfare grant Tuesday Jan. 6th is the annual People’s State of the State rally Children’s Art Poster Project for Hunger Awareness Day, Thursday March 19th Urge President Obama and Senator Kennedy to support single payer universal health care for all Last call to sign on to letter to Governor Paterson to raise the welfare grant. Demand for emergency food is on the rise. Make a special holiday contribution to Hunger Action Network Prayer Vigil Wed. Dec. 10 Noon Capitol outside of the Governor’s Office NYC Public Advocate Finds Problems with HRA Job Centers
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