This checklist of recommended provisions offers guidance for companies developing and implementing their own domestic violence policy, which is an important means of complying with the relevant laws and keeping your workplace safe and your employees working.
Workplace Equality and Economic Empowerment
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The USDA published the Obama Administration's "Stakeholder Guide" to end childhood hunger, which advocates for increasing the rate at which eligible children participate in Food Stamps and other child nutrition programs but fails to mention child poverty.
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Comments urging the Congress and the Obama Administration to move forward with comprehensive reauthorization legislation that will increase federal funding and raise participation rates and benefit levels in TANF.
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The Census Bureau poverty data for 2009 show the largest number of poor people in the 51 years that poverty has been measured, 43.56 million, and the highest overall poverty rate, 14.3%, since 1994. The growth in poverty in 2009 reflects the continuing impact of the great recession that began in 2007.
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A new report by Legal Momentum demonstrates the serious harm financial sanctions cause Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) recipients. These penalties are very common and many are imposed erroneously or for extremely minor violations, burdening the nation’s neediest families with even greater hardship.
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TANF's Work First policy has helped perpetuate single mother poverty and single mother employment in low wage “women’s work.” Legal Momentum urges Congress and the Administration to move forward rapidly to amend the TANF statute to embrace the Work Best approach.
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Statement to the House of Representatives about a survey and report from Legal Momentum on how TANF responds—and fails to respond—to women fleeing family violence who turn to TANF for assistance.
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Legal Momentum Statement Submitted to the Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support of the House Committee on Ways and Means to be included in the record of the Subcommittee’s March 11, 2010 Hearing on TANF’s Role in Providing Assistance to Struggling Families.
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Federal TANF policy continues to place barriers in the way of the single mothers receiving TANF who wish to go to school even though 40% of TANF recipients have not completed high school.
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According to an unprecedented new national survey of service providers, problems plague the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program, effectively stopping victims of abuse from accessing help when they need it most.
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An extensive report on how the social safety net has been failing, and how Americans need a long-term strategy to eliminate poverty.
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The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) included several provisions for modernizing state unemployment insurance systems, such as providing access to unemployment insurance benefits to various groups who were not previously covered by state laws, including victims of domestic violence.