Welfare-Mom Homepage

Dedicated to issues of importance to low-income families. Welfare myth-busting, original features, and resources for parents, kids, and job-seekers. Covers single-parent, working class, public policy and feminist issues.
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/1064/

HandsNet

An online community of nonprofit organizations concerned with low-income issues. Includes articles and alerts from participating organizations, some of which relate to welfare and workfare.
http://www.handsnet.org/

Welfare Law Center: Low Income Networking and Communications (LINC) Project

Where low-income organizers can come together to combat the shredding of the social safety net and have their efforts represented.
http://www.lincproject.org/

Welfare Law Center

Works with and on behalf of low-income people to ensure that adequate income support -- public funding provided on the basis of need -- is available whenever and to the extent necessary to meet basic needs and foster healthy human and family development.
http://www.welfarelaw.org/

UPM against Poverty SA

Provides information, links, newsletter, and events calendar.
http://www.webcom.com/ausisle/upm/

Administration for Children and Families Office of Family Assistance

The federal agency that administers the federal government's primary welfare program, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF).
http://www.acf.dhhs.gov/programs/ofa/

Welfare Rights Advocacy Pages

Addresses the failures of the social service system and offers advice for struggling clients.
http://www.angelfire.com/wa2/WRAP/index.html

Urban Institute

Policy think tank that tracks welfare, Social Security, Medicare, and other domestic policy issues.
http://www.urban.org/

Almanac of Policy Issues: Welfare

Background information and links on the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program and U.S. federal welfare policy generally.
http://www.policyalmanac.org/social_welfare/welfare.shtml

Joint Center for Poverty Research

A national and interdisciplinary research institute that examines what it means to be poor in America. Features academic research written for a lay audience on a variety of topics, including welfare programs, education, health, housing, employment, and cr
http://www.jcpr.org/

Welfare Rights Organizing Coalition

Seattle-based coalition of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) recipients. Includes newsletter, fact sheets, and event announcements.
http://www.wroc.org/

Heritage Foundation: Welfare

Research and related welfare information from the Heritage Foundation, a conservative policy think tank.
http://www.heritage.org/Research/Welfare/

MDRC

Multiple reports regarding welfare and welfare reform from this nonprofit, nonpartisan social policy research organization
http://www.mdrc.org/

Walk a Mile Project

Training materials, discussion board, and links for Walk a Mile, which trains local organizations to sponsor "Walk a Mile" projects that bring together policymakers with their low-income constituents to promote dialogue and understanding.
http://www.walkamile.org/

Emergency Committee to Defend Constitutional Welfare Rights

Establishes basis in U.S. Constitution and obligatory international law for right to decent relief for the involuntarily unemployed and that "workfare" as practised is prohibited involuntary servitude (forced labor).
http://www.geocities.com/welfarerights/

Social Policy: Welfare, Society and the State

Social policy is the study of the welfare state, and the range of responses to social need. This is a brief introduction to the subject.
http://www2.rgu.ac.uk/publicpolicy/introduction/index.htm

Welfare Information Network (WIN)

A clearinghouse for information, policy analysis and technical assistance on welfare reform.
http://www.financeprojectinfo.org/WIN/

Moving Ideas: Welfare

Studies and reports on USA welfare issues from a liberal perspective.
http://www.movingideas.org/content/en/issue_items/poverty_and_wealth/welfare.htm