Economic Justice Content Topic Results
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- NRCDV Publications
- General Material
April 2009
Enhancing the Safety Net for Individuals and Families: A Summary of Key Provisions in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
Publisher(s):This resource describes available public benefits included in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, including SSI, unemployment, tax credits, COBRA continuation coverage, medical assistance, housing, food assistance, and education benefits.
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- General Material
February 2009
Work Opportunity Tax Credit
Publisher(s):Under current law, businesses can claim a work opportunity tax credit (WOTC) equal to 40 percent of the first $6,000 of wages paid to employees who are members of one of nine targeted groups. Employees must work at least 400 hours to be counted for the full credit.
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- General Material
February 2009
Linking Asset Building to Public Benefits and Work Supports
Publisher(s): This webpage provides information on innovative strategies for linking asset building to public benefits and work supports. The San Antonio Coalition for Family Economic Progress is highlighted as a collaborative partnership that has successfully brought together multiple benefits and asset building work.
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- General Material
February 2009
Doubling the Damage: World Bank Climate Investment Funds Undermine Climate and Gender Justice
Publisher(s):This report discusses environmental and gender justice in regards to the World Bank Climate Investment Funds' projects that aim at producing green jobs and gender equality; concluding that these efforts fall short and have the potential of increased harm to the planet and impoverished women.
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- General Material
January 2009
Native American Asset Watch: Rethinking Asset Building in Indian Country
Publisher(s):This report explores the asset stripping purpose and effects of federal Indian law and policies, discusses existing mainstream asset-building models and then proposes a model for asset-building in Indian Country.
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- General Material
January 2009
Summary: Virginia's Plan for Primary Prevention of Intimate Partner Violence
Publisher(s):This statewide plan was based on a systematic 10-step planning process called “Getting to Outcomes.” The goal was to create and implement evidence-based strategies that prevent first-time perpetration of intimate partner violence.
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- General Material
January 2009
World Report 2009
Publisher(s):It reflects extensive investigative work undertaken in 2008 by Human Rights Watch staff, usually in close partnership with human rights activists in the country in question.
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- General Material
January 2009
Intimate Partner Violence: High Costs to Households and Communities
Publisher(s):This three-country study in Bangladesh, Morocco, and Uganda estimated the economic costs of intimate partner violence at the household and community levels.
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- General Material
January 2009
Child Development Accounts and Saving for Children's Future: Do Financial Incentives Matter?
Publisher(s):This study describes outcomes in the first large-scale CDA demonstration in the U. S. The research examines connections between savings outcomes and incentives in an asset-building program for children and highlights implications for CDA policy and design.
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- General Material
December 2008
The Future of Fair Housing: Report of the National Commission on Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity
Publisher(s):This report presents a summary of recommendations from the National Commission on Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity.
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- General Material
December 2008
Individual Development Accounts: An Asset Building Tool
Publisher(s):This document provides a comprehensive overview of IDAs, including the what, why and how, as well as an outline of state-supported IDA programs and various policy options for states and communities.
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- General Material
- Training Tools
October 2008
Helping Young Children (Birth to Five) Who Are Homeless
This presentation outlines some of the challenges facing homeless children, and explains the McKinney-Vento Act and how it can help children. The document also has information about Early Childhood Special Education and Headstart.