WAP Legislative Update: April 24, 2012
The Senate Appropriations Energy & Water (E&W) Subcommittee marked up the FY 2013 bill today to determine funding for the Weatherization Assistance Program (WAP). While we are expecting an...
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Myth: There’s No Lobbyist for Low-Income Americans
Guest Contributor: Advocates for The Other America — Advocates for The Other America (AFTOA) was pleased to see Cornel West and Tavis Smiley on The Colbert Report last night speaking out...
Read MoreData Corner: 100% 2012 CSBG IS Submissions Received!
NASCSP is happy to announce that every single State submitted their FY 2011 Community Service Block Grant (CSBG) Information System (IS) Survey data by the March 31, 2012 deadline! We know how much...
Read MorePoverty Politics: CSBG Picks Up Where Welfare Failed
Jason DeParle of the New York Times wrote last week, that despite all the rhetoric, the welfare reform of the late 1990s did nothing to “end poverty as we know it.” Despite the difficult economic...
Read MoreGoing Beyond Hunger; Food Insecurity in America
NASCSP is excited to announce the release of our latest issue brief, Going Beyond Hunger; Food Insecurity in America. This issue brief seeks to understand the role that food insecurity plays in...
Read MoreWords from our President: How Solving Poverty Will Help America Come Back
In the State of the Union Address, President Obama said, “Anyone who tells you that America is in decline or that our influence has waned doesn’t know what they’re talking about.” The...
Read More2012 NASCSP AWARDS
– By Terry Joyner – NASCSP’s membership proudly recognizes extraordinary contributions made to NASCSP and to the programs that NASCSP represents. The Marjorie J. Witherspoon NASCSP...
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NASCSP Cries Foul on Committees’ Claims against Weatherization
NASCSP came out swinging yesterday when a report released by the U.S. House of Representatives’ Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, chaired by Darrell Issa (R-CA), made outlandishly false...
Read MoreJob Skills Training in Georgia Leads to Employment
Edited by Payten Carroll Recent studies find that America is beginning to come out of the recession as unemployment numbers steadily decline. In Georgia the unemployment rate has been declining since...
Read MoreCSBG Data Corner: Data at your Fingertips
by Tabitha Beck Thank you to everyone for your efforts in submitting the FY2011 CSBG IS Survey this year! We hope you found the additional reports and comparison information in this year’s database...
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