Article: Citizens of the affluent society?(The Battle for Welfare Rights: Politics and Poverty in America; Life after Welfare: Reform and the Persistence of Poverty)(Book review)

Article: Welfare Rights Initiative
The Hunter Envoy;  November 16, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... welfare reform in New York State. The halls ... are home to the Welfare Rights Initiative (WRI ... a task which the New York City department ... The same year that New York City created WEP, the Welfare Rights Initiative began ...

Article: Brutal Need: Lawyers and the Welfare Rights ...
The Nation;  March 7, 1994 ;     700+ words ... ... their connection to a welfare rights movement. This analysis ... lawyering was driven by the welfare rights movement, which reached ... of poverty came the New York City project Mobilization ... that of the National Welfare Rights Organization (N ...

Article: On the Road Again: The Kensington Welfare Rights ...
Philadelphia Weekly;  December 11, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... the Kensington Welfare Rights Union's (KWRU ... Tour pulled into New York City--the final ... members testified in New York before the Economic ... week, the trip to New York was just the tip ... The Kensington Welfare Rights Union recently ...

Article: Negotiating the System: Welfare Rights Initiative ...
The Hunter Envoy;  September 4, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... you can start work in New York City's Work Experience ... welfare benefits. The Welfare Rights Initiative, Room HE ... individual cases against New York City's WEP requirements ... Bill, passed by the New York State legislature on ...

Article: Hunter Activists Rally for Welfare Rights at City ...
The Hunter Envoy;  March 24, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... other policy changes to New York's welfare programs ... who were led by the Welfare Rights Initiative (WRI) of ... Hunger Action Network of New York held up t-shirts strewn ... shirts off the backs of New York's poor by cutting welfare ...

Article: WELFARE RIGHTS ACTIVIST CHIDES SOCIAL ...
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  August 24, 1989 ;     700+ words ... ... nationwide. Last year in New York, approximately 50 of ... at City University of New York - and for many an icon ... work for social and welfare rights activists. She has ... forming the National Welfare Rights Organization in the ...

Article: Welfare Rights Initiative: A Community Struggle
The Hunter Envoy;  March 26, 2008 ;     700+ words ...This year, Welfare Rights Initiative celebrates ... political power by altering New York City's workfare requirements ... otherwise known as the City of New York. Despite enormous successes ... directly with various New York State assemblymen and ...