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NEW SITES ADDED

FutureWork - Report from the Department of Labor
http://www.dol.gov/dol/asp/public/futurework/report.htm

ARTICLES

Ancillary Services to Support Welfare to Work
http://aspe.os.dhhs.gov/hsp/isp/ancillary/front.htm

Beyond Job Search or Basic Education: Executive Summary
http://www.clasp.org/pubs/jobseducation/beyondexec.htm
or download full report in PDF

Building an Employment Focused Welfare System
http://www.urban.org/welfare/workfirs.htm

Business Partnerships: How to Involve Employers in Welfare Reform
http://www.mdrc.org/Reports/business.htm

CDF, New Studies Look at Status of Former Welfare Recipients
http://www.childrensdefense.org/fairstart_status.html

Does Work Pay? An Analysis of Work Incentives Under TANF
http://newfederalism.urban.org/html/occa9.html

Developing Employability Skills
http://www.nwrel.org/scpd/sirs/8/c015.html

Example of Employability Skills Portfolio (PDF only)
http://www.mhc.ab.ca/programs/techprep/portfolio.pdf

Helping Families Achieve Self-Sufficiency
http://www.acf.dhhs.gov/programs/ofa/funds2.htm

Job Prospects for Welfare Recipients: Employers Speak Out
http://newfederalism.urban.org/html/occ10.htm

National Service and Microenterprise Development as a Welfare to Work Strategy
http://www.cns.gov/98_jarmon/

NETGain Vocational Newsletter
http://vocserve.berkeley.edu/NetGain/

Reality of Welfare-to-Work: Employment Opportunities for Women Affected by Welfare Time Limits in Texas
http://www.utexas.edu/research/cshr/lolawson/

Rethinking Income Support for the Working Poor
http://www.nga.org/CBP/Center.asp

Rosa Lee's Story - Poverty and Survival
Pulitzer Prize indepth reporting from Washington Post
http://www.pulitzer.org/year/1995/explanatory-journalism/works/index.html

Share-Holders in Relief: The Political Culture of the Public Sector http://tap.epn.org/sage/gordon.html

TANF: First Annual Report to Congress
http://www.acf.dhhs.gov/news/welfare/congress/index.htm

Texas Families in Transition Study (PDF only) - DHS December 1998
http://www.dhs.state.tx.us/DHS/whatnew.htm

Welfare Graduates: College and Financial Independence
http://www.levy.org/docs/pn98-1.html

What Welfare Recipients and the Fathers of their Children are Saying about Welfare Reform (PDF only)
http://www.jhu.edu/~welfare/welfare.pdf

Where Are They Now?
What States’ Studies of People Who Left Welfare Tell Us
http://newfederalism.urban.org/html/anf_32.html

Working Out of Poverty: Employment Retention and Career Advancement for Welfare Recipients
http://www.nga.org/Welfare/EmploymentRetention.htm

EDUCATION

Engines for Education
http://www.ils.nwu.edu/~e_for_e/

ERIC Adult, Career and Vocational Education
http://ericacve.org/

ERIC Information & Technology
http://ericir.syr.edu/ithome/

George Lucas Educational Foundation
http://www.glef.org

Milken Exchange on Education Technology
http://www.milkenexchange.org/

Vocational Training Technology Resource Center
http://www.ttrc.doleta.gov/

FEDERAL

America's One-Stop Career Center System
http://www.ttrc.doleta.gov/onestop/

National School-to-Work Learning Center
http://www.stw.ed.gov/

Technology Administration - Department of Commerce
http://www.ta.doc.gov/

U.S. Department of Labor: Employment & Training Administration
http://www.doleta.gov

U.S. Department of Labor: Welfare to Work
http://wtw.doleta.gov

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services: Administration for Children & Families
http://www.acf.dhhs.gov

Workforce Investment Act
http://www.usworkforce.org/act.htm

LABOR MARKET INFORMATION

Beyond the Numbers: LMI Research and Writings
http://www.soicc.state.tx.us/writings/index.htm l

Emerging & Evolving Occupations
http://www.soicc.state.tx.us/emerging/index.html

Texas Labor Market Information
http://www.twc.state.tx.us/lmi/lfs/lfshome.html

Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
http://www.upjohninst.org

MODEL PROGRAMS

Austin/Travis County Welfare to Work Task Force Report
http://caction.org/wtwtfhome.html

The Center for What Works
http://www.whatworks.org/

go for IT!
http://www.ta.doc.gov/go4it/

GAIN
http://www.mdrc.org/Reports/LA%20GAIN/LA%20Working%20Paper.html

PUBLIC POLICY

Center for Community Change
http://communitychange.org/

Center for Public Policy Priorities - Texas
http://www.cppp.org

National Governors' Association
http://www.nga.org/core.htm

Urban Institute
http://www.urban.org

Welfare Information Network
http://www.welfareinfo.org

Welfare Reform Watch
http://www.igc.apc.org/handsnet2/welfare.reform/index.html

Welfare Reform Resource Project
http://www.welfarereform.org/

Welfare to Work Partnership
http://www.welfaretowork.org

SKILLS STANDARDS

Business Education Standards
http://www.nbea.org/curfbes.html

National Skills Standards Board
http://www.nssb.org/

O*Net
http://www.doleta.gov/programs/onet/

Skillsnet
http://www.skillsnet.org

Standards: Making Them Useful and Workable for the Education Enterprise
http://www.ed.gov/pubs/Standards/

Texas Technology Skills Summit
http://texas-technologies.tamu.edu/

Work Keys
http://www.act.org/workkeys/index.html

SPECIAL ISSUES

Welfare to Work Coalition of Austin/Travis County
http://www.io.com/~haca2/wtw.htm

Work and Family Forum
http://www.workfamily.com/wfcforum/default.htm

Childcare
http://www.aecf.org/aecpub/child/afford.htm

Guidance on Transportation
http://www.ctaa.org/welfare

HandsNet
http://www.handsnet.org

Welfare Watch
http://welfarewatch.org/

TEXAS STATE

Texas Science and Technology Council
http://www.dalsemi.com/tx_stc/

State of Technology (report from Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts)
http://www.window.texas.gov/comptrol/fnotes/fn9808/fn.html

Texas Workforce Commission
http://www.twc.state.tx.us

Texas Department of Human Services
http://www.dhs.state.tx.us