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CT Anti-Poverty Resource Center |
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Link to reports, data, publications, & websites on poverty-related trends in Connecticut and across the country. If there are items of interest you feel need to be shared with a broader audience through our web site, please get in touch with Rhonda R. Evans 860-832-9438 or email Rhonda@Cafca.org. |
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State Budget Reports |
State Policy Issues |
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CAFCA Reports:
CT Voices for Children Reports:
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: |
CT Child Poverty Council's Final
Report: Click here Framing Public Policy Issues: "An Economy that Works for All" CT Voices for Children Reports: Welfare-to-Work & TANF Reauthorization
State Data Profiles on Town Economic and Development: |
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Federal Budget Reports |
Federal Policy Issues |
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Federal Policy and Poverty Data
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: |
Analysis of Wages and Job Creation Welfare-to-Work & TANF Reauthorization
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211 Infoline: Resources for families and Individuals |
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Links to resources for
families and individuals on the 211 Infoline database. Affordable Housing Children
Digital Divide
Early Childhood Development
Fatherhood Programs |
HHS Poverty Guidelines
US Department of Health and Human Services has released the Poverty
Guidelines for 2008.
2008 HHS Poverty Guidelines
| Persons in Family or Household |
48 Contiguous States and D.C. |
Alaska | Hawaii |
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| 1 | $10,400 | $13,000 | $11,960 |
| 2 | 14,000 | 17,500 | 16,100 |
| 3 | 17,600 | 22,000 | 20,240 |
| 4 | 21,200 | 26,500 | 24,380 |
| 5 | 24,800 | 31,000 | 28,520 |
| 6 | 28,400 | 35,500 | 32,660 |
| 7 | 32,000 | 40,000 | 36,800 |
| 8 | 35,600 | 44,500 | 40,940 |
| For each additional person, add |
3,600 | 4,500 | 4,140 |
Advocates' Corner
How to get involved at the state/local level;
features on events held across the state; resources for
community-based campaigns.
Affordable
Housing
Reports and websites dealing with housing issues
and homelessness at the national and state level.
Children
Extensive catalogue of local and national
reports, data, and publications
dealing with the well-being of children and families; website links.
Community
Action History
Reports and websites explaining in Community
Action's background.
Connecticut
Links to CT legislature and state agencies; state library
Digital
Divide
Links to programs opening access to
technology to low-income people across the country, sites helping
nonprofits get full use of technology
Early Childhood
Development
Head Start and other groups dedicated to
improving the outcomes of children at risk
Economic
Security
Reports that analyze the economic well-being nationally and statewide;
website links to agencies dealing with poverty and economic security in
CT and across the country.
Energy
Deregulation
National and statewide information and
initiatives, including Bridgeport, CT's new company ABCD Electric
Fatherhood
Programs
Groups working to increase fathers'
involvement in the lives of their children.
Healthcare
State and national facts and figures and
website links, including the HUSKY website
Hunger
Statistics on hunger in CT and the US
Juvenile
Criminal Justice
Reports on the state of juvenile justice in
the US; nationwide outcomes and statistics
Mental
Health
Links to websites and reports on mental
health care in Connecticut and across the U.S.
Research Room
Links to on-line data sets & statistics,
search engines, on-line resource centers on poverty
Technical
Assistance
Links to agencies offering
technical assistance to CAAs; includes assistance in the areas of
technology and fundraising and e-advocacy
Transportation
National and statewide initiatives
U.S.
Government
Links to U.S. government agency websites
Workforce
Investment Act
Information on WIA One-Stops
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