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.
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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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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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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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This article details the importance of a largely ignored sign of risk and potential lethality in domestic violence cases: intimate partner sexual abuse.
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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.
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There has been a large gender poverty gap in every year since the official poverty standard was created. In 2009, adult woman were 32 percent more likely to be poor than adult men, with a poverty rate of 13.9% compared to a 10.5% rate for adult men.
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This report, later published in Domestic Violence Report 65 (June/July 2009), explains the connection between economic and personal security for women and family assistance, and focuses on the critical role that family assistance plays in enabling poor women and families to escape abuse and overcome poverty.
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This Report details and analyzes the sharp drop in participation of eligible poor women and children following the adoption of federal welfare reform which encouraged states to cut welfare rolls.
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