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HHS Websites Updated: HHS is refreshing a number of its HHS websites, including those within the Administration for Children & Families (ACF). The sites will be complete by this fall. Recently published data and reports, as well as links to useful program resources, are now being uploaded. The main ACF site may be accessed here.
Transitional Jobs Program Evaluation Released: The Social IMPACT Research Center has released its evaluation of the Chicago Neighborhood JobStart program. Using philanthropic and federal TANF emergency funds, JobStart placed low-income youth and adults from historically high-unemployment neighborhoods into temporary jobs with local employers, subsidized their wage and payroll costs, and provided supportive services to help them maintain employment. To view the report and key findings, click here.
TANF Supplemental Grants: This three page brief from First Focus examines the Supplemental Grant program. Congress allowed it to expire last year. The brief makes short-and long-term policy recommendations.
CWLA Report: Direct Service Workers' Reform Recommendations: The Public Children Services Association of Ohio alerted NACHSA to this report which outlines what direct service workers have to say about child welfare financing. CWLA conducted a series of surveys and focus groups drawing on the expertise of frontline workers and supervisors to help advise and give direction to future reform discussions. Click here to access the report. (32 pp.)
Food Hardship Documented: This report from the Food Research and Action Center (FRAC) found that nearly one in five households stated that there were times over the past 12 months in which they did not have enough money to buy food. The data were gathered as part of the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index project, which has been interviewing almost 1,000 households daily since January 2008. The report contains data for every state, congressional district, and 100 of the country's largest metropolitan areas. Nationally, 18.6 % of respondents reported food hardship in 2011, an increase from the 2010 level of 18 % and the highest annual rate in the four years that FRAC has been tracking these data.
SNAP & African Americans: The Bread for the World Institute released a three page fact sheet exploring how increasing rates of hunger and poverty are putting more African American women and children at risk of poor nutrition. These data underscore the importance of programs such as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program in protecting the health of women and children.
Child Poverty: The Annie E. Casey Foundation has published a report finding that nearly 8 million children under age 18 live in areas of concentrated poverty-communities where at least 30 percent of residents have incomes below the federal poverty level. Over the last decade, the chance that a child will live in a high-poverty area has grown significantly. The latest data available show 1.6 million more children are living in these communities, a 25 percent increase from 2000.
To learn more, read Children Living in America's High-Poverty Communities (4 pp.) A state-by-state chart may be found on page three. For additional data by state, click here.
Basic Facts About Low Income Kids: The National Center for Children in Poverty describes the demographic, socio-economic and geographic characteristics of children and their parents, particularly those that appear to distinguish low-income and poor children from their less disadvantaged counterparts. Basic Facts about Low-Income Children, 2010 suggests that a range of factors, including race and ethnicity and parents' educational attainment and employment, are associated with children's experiences of economic insecurity. (8 pp.)
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