Welfare-Mom Homepage Dedicated to issues of importance to low-income families. Welfare myth-busting, original features, and resources for parents, kids, and job-seekers. Covers single-parent, working class, public policy and feminist issues. http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/1064/

Social Policy Action Network (SPAN) SPAN develops effective social policy for low income children and their families. SPAN is a project of the Tides Foundation. http://www.span-online.org/

HandsNet An online community of nonprofit organizations concerned with low-income issues. Includes articles and alerts from participating organizations, some of which relate to welfare and workfare. http://www.handsnet.org/

Coalition on Human Needs: Welfare Background information, legislative analyses, status reports on pending bills, and links on welfare issues from the Coalition on Human Needs, a coalition of major U.S. anti-poverty organizations. http://www.chn.org/welfare/

Welfare Law Center: Low Income Networking and Communications (LINC) Project Where low-income organizers can come together to combat the shredding of the social safety net and have their efforts represented. http://www.lincproject.org/

Welfare Law Center Works with and on behalf of low-income people to ensure that adequate income support -- public funding provided on the basis of need -- is available whenever and to the extent necessary to meet basic needs and foster healthy human and family development. http://www.welfarelaw.org/

Welfare Made a Difference Campaign Seeks to reshape public perception about and public policy relating to welfare by sharing stories of people who have received welfare and struggled out of poverty. http://www.wmadcampaign.org/

UPM against Poverty SA Provides information, links, newsletter, and events calendar. http://www.webcom.com/ausisle/upm/

Administration for Children and Families Office of Family Assistance The federal agency that administers the federal government's primary welfare program, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF). http://www.acf.dhhs.gov/programs/ofa/

Welfare Rights Advocacy Pages Addresses the failures of the social service system and offers advice for struggling clients. http://www.angelfire.com/wa2/WRAP/index.html

Urban Institute Policy think tank that tracks welfare, Social Security, Medicare, and other domestic policy issues. http://www.urban.org/

Almanac of Policy Issues: Welfare Background information and links on the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program and U.S. federal welfare policy generally. http://www.policyalmanac.org/social_welfare/welfare.shtml

Hudson Institute's Welfare Reform Policy Center Hudson Institute's Welfare Reform Policy Center researches welfare reform activity around the nation, conducts research, evaluates the effectiveness of work-based reforms and improves them, and facilitates policy meetings and project developments. http://www.welfarereformer.org/

Joint Center for Poverty Research A national and interdisciplinary research institute that examines what it means to be poor in America. Features academic research written for a lay audience on a variety of topics, including welfare programs, education, health, housing, employment, and crime. http://www.jcpr.org/

Welfare Rights Organizing Coalition Seattle-based coalition of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) recipients. Includes newsletter, fact sheets, and event announcements. http://www.wroc.org/

Heritage Foundation: Welfare Research and related welfare information from the Heritage Foundation, a conservative policy think tank. http://www.heritage.org/Research/Welfare/

MDRC Multiple reports regarding welfare and welfare reform from this nonprofit, nonpartisan social policy research organization http://www.mdrc.org/

Walk a Mile Project Training materials, discussion board, and links for Walk a Mile, which trains local organizations to sponsor "Walk a Mile" projects that bring together policymakers with their low-income constituents to promote dialogue and understanding. http://www.walkamile.org/

Emergency Committee to Defend Constitutional Welfare Rights Establishes basis in U.S. Constitution and obligatory international law for right to decent relief for the involuntarily unemployed and that "workfare" as practised is prohibited involuntary servitude (forced labor). http://www.geocities.com/welfarerights/

Social Policy: Welfare, Society and the State Social policy is the study of the welfare state, and the range of responses to social need. This is a brief introduction to the subject. http://www2.rgu.ac.uk/publicpolicy/introduction/index.htm