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What's a Poverty Commission to Do about a Recession?

Friday, September 19, 2008 from 2 to 3pm ET

Click here to listen to this audio conference in streaming audio.

This audio conference offers concrete ideas for immediate actions states can take to address the high costs of food and fuel and the loss of jobs that are causing more to struggle to make ends meet and pushing more and more families towards poverty.

Guests:

	Greg Landsman, Ohio Anti Poverty Task Force
	Maurice Emsellem, National Employment Law Project
	Jim Weill, Food Research and Action Center
	Charlie Harak, National Consumer Law Center

Moderator: Jodie Levin-Epstein, Deputy Director, CLASP

Resources for Further Information:

Overview

Towards Shared Recovery: Call for Congressional Action
http://www.chn.org/pdf/2008/stimulus82208.pdf

Can We Fight Poverty during Economic Downturns?
Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality Summer 2008 Issue of Pathways:
http://www.stanford.edu/group/scspi/pdfs/pathways/summer_2008/summer_2008.pdf

Ohio Commission:

Ohio Anti-Poverty Task Force: Shorter Term Recommendations
http://governor.ohio.gov/Projects/AntiPovertyTaskForce/tabid/689/Default.aspx

Urban Institute: http://www.urban.org/UploadedPDF/411733_job_loss_summary.pdf

"States Hard Hit By Rising Unemployment and End of Federal Jobless Benefits: Nearly 800,000 Workers Left Without Assistance Soon After Congress Recesses": http://www.nelp.org/docUploads/EUCBrief.pdf1

USA Today: http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/2008-09-05-jobs_N.htm

Food:

FRAC statement on priorities in upcoming child nutrition and WIC programs reauthorization
http://www.frac.org/pdf/jwstatement_2009cnr_listensessionsep09.pdf

Most recent data, state-by-state, on food stamp participation changes over last month, year, and five year periods
http://www.frac.org/html/news/fsp/2008.06_FSP.htm

FRAC Study of food stamp participation rates in large cities
http://www.frac.org/pdf/UrbanFoodStamp07.pdf

State-by-State data on a variety of Federal Nutrition Programs
http://www.frac.org/SOS%202007%20Report.pdf

Energy:

Fact Sheet: Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program
http://www.consumerlaw.org/issues/energy_and_utility/liheap.shtml

Advocates Join Forces to Prevent Human Tragedy This Winter
http://www.clasp.org/audio/091908/Charlie HarakLIHEAP-PR-7 23 08.pdf

Energy Prices Out of Reach for Many More Massachusetts Households; Thousands of Utility Terminations Looming http://www.clasp.org/audio/091908/Charlie Harak BriefingPaperMay14-08_rev7-12-08_.pdf

Fact Sheet: Low-come Home Energy Assistance Program
http://www.clasp.org/audio/091908/Charlie HarakFactSheetMay13-08_rev8-12-08_.pdf

Principles of Energy and Water Security for All Americans
http://www.consumerlaw.org/issues/energy_utility/content/principles_energy_water.pdf

NCLC's March 2008 testimony before Congress on the fuel assistance program:
http://www.consumerlaw.org/issues/energy_and_utility/content/HouseAppropriationsFY2008.pdf

Utilities Advocacy for Low-Income Households in Massachusetts
http://www.masslegalservices.org/docs/utility-handbook-2d-ed.pdf

For more information, please contact:
Angela Parker, CLASP Audio Conference Coordinator, (202) 906-8032 or aparker@clasp.org