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RELATED WEB SITES
The Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) is a national nonprofit that works to improve the lives of low-income people. CLASP’s mission is to improve the economic security, educational and workforce prospects, and family stability of low-income parents, children, and youth and to secure equal justice for all.
EPI features a Job Watch site: with monthly updates on national and state unemployment figures and how job creation fares, tracking actual job growth to what President Bush has promised in terms of new jobs.
ACORN is the nation's largest community organization of low and moderate income families, and leader in the living wage movement. While pressing Congress to raise the minimum wage, ACORN organized the 2006 ballot initiatives to raise the minimum wage in Arizona, Colorado, Michigan and Ohio, and is working on campaigns for fair wages in many cities and states around the country. In 2007, ACORN is also working on legislative and ballot initatives to provide paid sick leave for workers in many states.
The Working Poor Families Project was created in 2001 to assess state efforts to assist the working poor. This national initiative was started by the Annie E. Casey Foundation and is now supported by AECF and the Ford, Joyce and Mott Foundations.
Good Jobs First is a national policy resource center for grassroots groups and public officials, promoting corporate and government accountability in economic development and smart growth for working families.
Jobs with Justice is a national network of over 40 local coalitions of labor, community groups, students, faith communities, and individual activists united to fight for workers’ rights and economic justice. By building a base of diverse constituencies at the local level as well as providing training, coordination, and networking at the national level, Jobs with Justice is re-building the infrastructure that gives communities a sense of their own power.
The nonprofit Paraprofessional Healthcare Institute (PHI) works to strengthen the direct-care workforce within our nation’s long-term care system through developing innovative approaches to recruitment, training, and supervision; client-centered caregiving practices; and effective public policy.
The National Clearinghouse on the Direct Care Workforce is a national on-line library for people in search of solutions to the direct-care staffing crisis in long-term care.
The mission of Women Employed is to improve the economic status of women and remove barriers to economic equity.
Wider Opportunities for Women (WOW) works nationally and in its home community of Washington, D.C. to build pathways to economic independence for America's families, women, and girls.
The Center for Community Change supports and coordinates low-income community organizing nationwide. A top priority of the Center is to strengthen the power of groups that organize to meet the needs of low-wage workers and their families. This year, the Center and a number of allies have launched an innovative effort to enable community groups to offer low-wage workers a "stored value card" as a safe way to keep and use their earnings.
These workers are often excluded from traditional banking systems because of immigration status or other circumstances, making them highly vulnerable to robbery and the unscrupulous business practices of non-traditional financial institutions. The stored value cards meet a critical need of low-wage workers and provide the sponsoring organizations a new way to build their memberships.
Founded in 1998, The Women's Foundation is dedicated to making empowerment, economic security, and self-reliance a reality for low-income, women-headed families in the Washington Metropolitan Area.
The Prosperity Campaign connects low-wage workers to existing economic benefits programs available to them such as the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and Childcare Tax Credit.
The Florida Prosperity Campaign brings together community organizations, human services providers, businesses, labor unions and government agencies working to help the state’s working poor build financial stability.
Nebraska Appleseed focuses on core values held by most Nebraskans, such as fairness, opportunity, community, and responsibility, finds common ground to create practical and reasonable solutions to persistent problems, and brings equal justice home to Nebraska’s struggling communities.