I'm forwarding a message first posted on CD4URBAN listserv because,
although it focusses on the US situation, it may be of interest to some
CLICK4HP subscribers.  (note, by way of context: Ed Schwartz is the author
of NETACTIVISM: HOW CITIZENS USE TEH INTERNET (1996, O'Reilly Press)).

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Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 09:01:08 -0500
From: Bill McMahon <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: Welfare Reform List
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Anyone want to discuss the impact of welfare reform on low income
communities???  I do. I don't know of a mailing list so I am trying to start
one just for this very important and timely topic.

Do you want to be a Welfare Reform Mail List Charter Member?? See where it
takes us???

1. Put the following in an email message ---------> subscribe welfare Your Name

2. Send it to -----------> [log in to unmask]

Any other welfare reform lists out there?????


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Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 10:48:24 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ed Schwartz <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: Re: Welfare Reform List
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Bill (and others):

This is an excellent idea, I think, and I'll certainly subscribe.

The Institute for the Study of Civic Values web site includes
a welfare reform page that is widely accessed, given that
we include the law, the congressional debate, the Health
and Human Services "demonstration projects" page, and
policy pieces on both sides of the question.

The URL is: http://libertynet.org/~edcivic/welfref.html

I also keep the "civic-values" list abreast of what's happening
around welfare reform.

The Children's Defense Fund has focused heavily on welfare
reform in its email Alerts and on its web site.

Finally, Handsnet has an entire section devoted to welfare
reform in the Families and Youth Forums which would be
quite useful to see, and "Idea Central" run by the American
Prospect has a welfare reform page as well.

As far as I know, this would be the first list devoted to the
topic.

Ed Schwartz

Institute for the Study of Civic Values, 1218 Chestnut St.,
Rm. 702, Philadelphia, Pa. 19107 215-238-1434 [log in to unmask]

The ISCV home page can be reached at
http://libertynet.org/~edcivic/iscvhome.html
Also check out  "Neighborhoods Online" at
http://libertynet.org/community/phila/natl.html.

"Citizenship is the American ideal. There may be an army of actualities
opposed to that ideal, but there is no ideal opposed to that ideal."
                               --G.K. Chesterton



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Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 15:17:48 -0700 (PDT)
From: Stacy Harwood <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Welfare Reform List

You might want to look into a discussion group called H-STATE (History of
the Welfare State). And if that group isn't discussing welfare reform in
low-income communities, perhaps some folks on that list might want to join
a new discussion group. (I believe you send a subscribe message to
[log in to unmask]).

Stacy Harwood
USC

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