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Education, Employment, Housing, & Welfare
This section lists websites dealing with such topics as Education, Employment, Housing and Urban Policy, and Welfare and Poverty.
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Education Law and Policy:
New York University Institute for Education and Social Policy
http://www.nyu.edu/iesp
The Institute for Education and Social Policy is based in the Steinhardt School of Education at New York University. The Institute conducts studies and makes recommendations for improving school systems in urban and low-income areas. This website includes full-text articles on general and special education in New York City and privatization of public schools.
U.S. Department of Education
The U.S. Dept. of Education, a federal governmental entity, seeks to “ensure equal access to education and to promote educational excellence throughout the nation.†The website includes Annual Plans and Agendas, Performance and Accountability Reports, and the Strategic Plan for 2002-2007. The budget and proposed budgets are included with implications for individual states. The website includes a site index to search for specific topics.
National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)
The NCES, part of the Institute of Education Sciences, provides data pertaining to educational facilities, dropout rates, crime in the school systems, and projections of education statistics. The website includes three “booksâ€: Digest of Education, NCES Quarterly, and Condition of Education which can be accessed on the Home Page. These “books†compile statistical information and summaries regarding publications.
Families and Advocates Partnerships for Education (FAPE)
http://www.fape.org/index.htm
FAPE seeks to improve the educational outcomes for children with disabilities. It links families, advocates, and self-advocates to information about the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). It includes links to the IDEA and its regulations, explanations for how to work with IDEA, and rulings of cases.
National Head Start Association (NHSA)
The National Head Start Association is a private not-for-profit membership organization dedicated exclusively to meeting the needs of Head Start children and their families. It represents more than 1 million children, 200,000 staff and 2,600 Head Start programs in the United States. The Association provides support for the entire Head Start community by advocating for policies that strengthen services to Head Start children and their families; by providing extensive training and professional development to Head Start staff; and by developing and disseminating research, information, and resources that enrich Head Start program delivery. The website includes full studies on Head Start, opinion polls, resource papers, and research editorials. There is also an Advocacy page which includes their policy agenda and legislative publications.
SchoolMatch
School Match is a private company that provides school information. It claims to maintain databases on all 15,900 public school districts, all public high schools, and all 14,000 accredited private schools in the United States. The site serves as a brochure for SchoolMatch, describing the company's services and offering scenarios taken from actual cases in which it has been involved. Schoo1Match is an organization that performs school evaluations and assessments. Its experts are available to provide testimony and assistance in case preparation involving education and custody.
Employment and Labor:
U.S. Department of Labor (DOL)
The DOL administers federal labor laws. Its mission is to foster and promote the welfare of job seekers, wage earners, and retirees by improving working conditions, protecting employment benefits, helping connect workers to employers, strengthening free collective bargaining, and tracking changes in employment, prices, and other national economic measurements. This website includes the full text of the Family Medical Leave Act and its regulations; information regarding the Newborns’ and Mothers’ Health Protection Act; minimum wage and pension information; job openings; labor-related statutes, regulations and executive orders; and media releases about congressional testimony and speeches. This website has a search engine and it is updated continuously.
OSHA works under the DOL and its “mission is to assure the safety and health of America's workers by setting and enforcing standards; providing training, outreach, and education; establishing partnerships; and encouraging continual improvement in workplace safety and health.†This website includes information on the OSHA Act and its regulations; technical links to health and safety topics; compliance assistance; state and federal programs; consultation services; Federal Register notices; FAQ’s; publications; and media releases. The website includes an alphabetical site index and a search engine which is updated continuously.
Berger Institute for Work, Family, and Children
Located at Claremont McKenna College, the Berger Institute for Work, Family, and Children educates students, scholars, law-makers, and the community about a wide range of work and family issues including the effects of changing demographics and diversity on work-family balance, the business case for family-friendly workplaces, poverty issues for working families, and the relationships among stress, health, and child development. Information is available on its research projects, newsletters, articles, and other publications. A search engine is available to search the site.
Housing and Urban Policy:
Center for Urban Policy Research (CUPR)
CUPR, a research center at Rutgers University, focuses its research on topics such as affordable housing, environmental impact analysis, public finance, infrastructure assessment, development impact analysis, transportation information systems, and community economic development. The website includes general information on its projects, institutes, and activities. The site includes CUPR Reports from 1998 through 2000 and is hyperlinked to the CUPR’s Community Development Institute.
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
HUD is a federal governmental agency which seeks to increase homeownership and increase affordable housing. This site includes full text research documents; full text HUD periodicals; hyperlinks to state HUD resources and current news; Fair Housing Laws; consumer alerts; and housing assistance for veterans, low-income citizens, seniors, farm workers, Native Americans, the disabled, the homeless, and for people with HIV/AIDS.
Welfare and Poverty:
Moving Ideas Network (formerly Electronic Policy Network) is a project of The American Prospect magazine. This website is designed to be a resource for socially progressive policy information and includes a variety of topics from business and corporations to health policy to poverty and wealth. The Children and Families sections include full text reports, press releases, articles, and hyperlinks to a great variety of organizations. The Children and Families section is broken into seven subcategories including: child development/childcare, child exploitation/rights, child welfare, education, nutrition/health, poverty, and welfare issues.
HandsNet Welfare Reform Watch
HandsNet works “to make online collaboration and information sharing a reality for the human services community.†It assists organizations to integrate their work online. It includes information and articles on the latest news and legislation regarding family issues, children and youth, education, and other public interest issues.
New York State Welfare Reform Page
This website provided by the Western New York Law Center has a welfare law page which contains fact sheets and manuals, New York agency materials, and federal materials regarding welfare reform.
Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP)
CLASP, located in Washington, D.C., "is a national non-profit organization with expertise in both law and policy affecting the poor. Through education, policy research and advocacy, CLASP seeks to improve the economic security of low-income families with children and secure access for low-income persons to our civil justice system." The site's resources include FAQs about CLASP, History and Activities, State Policy, Documentation Project, Kellogg Devolution Initiative, and Project for the Future of Equal Justice Staff.
Rural Poverty Research Institute (RUPRI)
RUPRI was founded in 2002 with the awarding of a three-year grant from the US Department of Health & Human Services’ Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning & Evaluation. It is housed jointly at the University of Missouri-Columbia and Oregon State University and is part of the Rural Policy Research Institute. RUPRI’s mission is to examine both the causes and consequences of poverty in rural areas and the factors affecting the success of policies to improve the self-sufficiency and well-being of low income workers and families in rural America.
National Center on Poverty Law
The Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law champions law and policy to promote equal opportunity and support for low-income individuals, families, and communities in order to escape poverty. Resources include a poverty law library for poverty law advocates, news, and other information.
Southern Poverty Law Center
The Southern Poverty Law Center was founded in 1971 as a small civil rights law firm. Today, the Center is internationally known for its tolerance education programs, its legal victories against white supremacists, and its tracking of hate groups. The site includes information on landmark cases and news.
IRP, a university based research institute, studies the causes and consequences of poverty. The website includes IRP’s online publications, links to poverty related websites, information on IRP conferences, and IRP’s research topics.
This site represents an academic group at the University of Michigan. It is jointly managed by the Schools of Public Policy, Social Work, and Law. It promotes “interdisciplinary applied research on poverty and social welfare policy and works to translate research findings to public policy decision makers.†This site includes online papers, reports and journal articles, and fellowship information.
National Poverty Center (NPC)
The NPC, a center at the University of Michigan, promotes “multidisciplinary research on poverty and policy, mentoring and training the next generation of poverty researchers, and informing the policy and research communities.†The site includes research topics regarding families and children in poverty, publication from conferences, policy briefs and memoranda, poverty facts, and links to various poverty related resources.
NCCP, a research and policy organization at Columbia University, works “to identify and promote strategies that prevent child poverty in the United States and that improve the lives of low-income children and families.†This website includes interactive “data wizards†that compare state policies, demographics, and economic conditions; demographics for children living at the poverty level; and publications and reviews regarding public policy effecting families and poverty.
Joint Center for Poverty Research (JCPR)
JCPR conducts academic research concentrating on the causes and consequences of poverty in America and the effectiveness of policies aimed at reducing poverty. Its goal is to advance what is known about the economic, social and behavioral factors that cause poverty and to establish the actual effects of interventions designed to alleviate poverty. The Center's research agenda focuses on changing labor markets and the causes of inequality in the current labor market; family functioning and the well-being of children; the impact of concentrated urban poverty; and the effects in these domains—and others—of changing policy and new programs.
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