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Census: People with Disabilities More Likely to be Unemployed, Poorly Paid
New data from the Census Bureau shows a wage gap that persists even within particular occupations. more
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Governors Promote Employment for People With Disabilities
A yearlong initiative at the National Governors Association examines the roles that states and businesses can play in finding jobs for people with disabilities. more
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Disability Prevalence Among Income-Based Government Assistance Recipients
What share of Americans on income-based government assistance are disabled in each state? The U.S. average is just over 30 percent. more
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Competing Globally: Governors Give, Get Ideas
Politicians in hyper-partisan Washington may shun any proposal from across the aisle, but some governors aren’t shy about stealing a neighboring state’s idea and giving credit, regardless of their counterpart’s political party. more
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Infographic: Poverty Up, Incomes Cown in Most States
Data released Thursday (September 22) by the U.S. Census Bureau show that 20 states saw a 20 percent or higher increase in the poverty rate from 2007 to 2010. Over the same time, median incomes fell by more than 7 percent in 16 states. more
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Georgia Work$ Jobs Program Holds Lessons for Obama
President Obama next week is expected to propose a national version of Georgia Work$, an eight-year-old state program that places Georgia residents receiving unemployment checks into unpaid training positions in an effort to get them full-time jobs. The program is popular on both sides of the aisle, including with congressional Republicans, but it comes with its own set of challenges.more -
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Georgia Work$ Expands
A nationally recognized re-employment program called Georgia Work$ is expanding to include all jobless workers, whether they're receiving unemployment benefits or not. New Hampshire and Missouri have copied the successful on-the-job training program that already has given thousands of job seekers a chance at a new career. more
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Kansas to Aspiring Journalists: No More State Money
TODAY'S TAKE: Several states have reduced the financial assistance they provide to journalists as part of broader cuts to publicly funded broadcasting. But Kansas is putting a new twist on the trend. The state is eliminating funding for high school journalism studies, saying the profession is no longer viable going forward. more
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Summary of the New Hampshire State of the State Address
New Hampshire Gov. John Lynch (D) has asked lawmakers to change the state's unemployment benefits so they could pay for on-the-job training for new workers, give unemployment benefits to employees whose hours are reduced and help job applicants evaluate their skills. more
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Ga. Work Program Grows, Attracts Followers
As states struggle to help legions of jobless workers find employment, some are seeking advice from Georgia, where a growing number of people are landing jobs as a result of free tryouts sponsored by the state unemployment system. Georgia plans to expand the proven program in hopes of spurring private-sector hiring.more -
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Prolonged Job Losses Strain State Agencies
With more people collecting unemployment checks than at any time in U.S. history, states are struggling to keep up with demand. At least four unemployed workers are available for every job opening; as a result, a quarter of jobless workers have been unable to find work for six months or more.more -
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States Urged to Help More Jobless Workers
The Obama administration wants Congress to give states federal money to provide a safety net for a half million low-wage workers who are left out of the unemployment insurance system. In most states, part-time and temporary workers can't get benefits when they lose their jobs.more -
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Experts Debate Merits of Bush's Block Grant Plan
President Bush has proposed turning at least six existing federal programs into block grants Medicaid, housing for the poor, workforce development, child protection, transportation and Head Start. more
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Welfare-To-Work Can Benefit Kids, Study Finds
A new report on an experimental welfare-to-work program released Tuesday (June 10) suggests that putting poor mothers to work can have a positive effect on the well-being of their children as long as their family receives adequate work supports and their income rises above the poverty level. more
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House Adopts Stricter Work Rules for Poor
The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a Republican welfare bill that would require states to impose stricter work requirements on poor parents, offer new money for marriage strengthening programs and freeze federal funding for cash assistance at 1996 levels. more
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Extra Support Helps Welfare-to-Work Program Succeed
Michigan has reduced its welfare rolls by nearly 70 percent in the last six years by helping people on public assistance find jobs and by providing services like childcare to make sure they stay employed. In the second installment of a two-part profile of one of the states most successful welfare-to-work initiatives, Stateline.org looks at how a plastics company helped one welfare recipient become self-sufficient. more
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Academic-Business Coalition Unveils Test Of Computer Savvy
Next month, liberal arts students at universities in 23 states who want to pursue a career in the high tech industry will be able to take an exam that will test their computer and problem solving skills. Those who pass will certified by the Virginia Foundation For Independent Colleges (VFIC), a bragging right likely to impress would-be employers. more
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Charitable Choice: Welfare Money and the First Amendment
As Texas Gov. George W. Bush travels the country on his quest for the White House, he preaches the power of faith and invites religious organizations to double their efforts against poverty. He says the government will help foot the bill. In Texas, the purse strings have begun to loosen, but the groups Bush praises in his speeches are among the most reluctant to join forces with the state. In this second story in a series of three, stateline.org looks at some of the obstacles in the path of compassionate conservatism. more
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States Coach Welfare Recipients In How To Keep Their Jobs
As welfare to work programs become more deeply rooted, states are trying to assure that people who used to be on public assistance are able to keep earning a paycheck. The state of Washington is a pioneer in tracking the success of former welfare recipients, but a number of other states also have follow-up programs. For more information, click on more
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Welfare Recipients Need Schooling, Job Aid, Study Shows
To prepare welfare recipients for 21st century careers, states need to expand their welfare-to-work services beyond transportation and child care to include education, careful job placement and subsidized training, a new study by the Educational Testing Service has found. Without additional education and skills training, women moving from welfare to work will continue to struggle in jobs paying poverty-level wages, the report says. ETS, the corporation that directs the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) for college admissions, unveiled details of Getting Down to Business: Matching Welfare Recipients' Skills to Jobs That Train at a Washington, D.C. news conference Wednesday. more