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HELP WITH WELFARE PROBLEMS

• In Greater Boston: Greater Boston Legal Services
• Outside the Greater Boston area: http://www.masslegalservices.org/

POLICY ADVOCACY ON WELFARE AND RELATED ISSUES

      Massachusetts

• Greater Boston Legal Services http://www.gbls.org/welfare/index.htm

• Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center http://massbudget.org/

• Massachusetts Law Reform Institute http://www.mlri.org/

• University of Massachusetts Boston – John W. McCormack Graduate School of Policy Studies http://www.mccormack.umb.edu/index.jsp

      National

• Center on Budget and Policy Priorities http://www.cbpp.org/

• Center for Law and Social Policy http://www.clasp.org/

• National Center for Law and Economic Justice http://www.nclej.org/

Organizations working on social justice issues affecting welfare recipients and other low income workers

• ACORN http://acorn.org

• Coalition Against Poverty http://www.caporganize.org/

• Coalition on Human Needs http://www.chn.org/

• Legal Momentum Advancing Women's Rights http://www.legalmomentum.org/ 

• Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition http://www.miracoalition.org/

• Neighbor to Neighbor http://www.n2nma.org/

• Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law http://www.povertylaw.org/

• The Power to End Hunger – RESULTS http://www.results.org/website/article.asp?id=19

• United for a Fair Economy http://www.faireconomy.org

• Wellstone Action! http://www.wellstone.org/

Faith based organizations working on issues of social justice

• American Friends Service Committee http://www.afsc.org/

• Episcopal City Mission http://www.diomass.org/ECM/

• Greater Boston Interfaith Organization http://www.gbio.org/

• Jewish Community Action – Organizing for Justice http://jewishcommunityaction.org/index.htm

• NETWORK, a National Catholic Social Justice Lobby http://www.networklobby.org/

• Sourjourners http://www.sojo.net/index.cfm

• Unitarian Universalist Service Committee http://www.uusc.org/

RESEARCH INSTITUTES

• Institute for Women's Policy Research http://www.iwpr.org/

• Joint Center for Poverty Research http://www.jcpr.org/

• Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation http://www.mdrc.org

• Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. http://www.mathematica-mpr.com/

• McCormack Institute http://www.mccormack.umb.edu/index.html

• Urban Institute www.urban.org

UNIONS

• Massachusetts AFL-CIO http://www.massaflcio.org/

• SEIU Local 509 http://www.seiu509.org/

WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT ADVOCACY ORGANIZATIONS

• Boston Job Training Alliance (no web site)

• Boston Private Industry Council http://www.bostonpic.org/

• Boston Workforce Development Coalition http://www.bostonworkforce.org/

• Massachusetts Workforce Alliance http://peer.mwapolicy.org/

• The Workforce Alliance http://www.workforcealliance.org/

GOVERNMENT SITES

      Commonwealth of Massachusetts

• Department of Transitional Assistance http://www.state.ma.us/dta/
• Finding your state legislators www.wheredoivotema.com
• Links to state budgets, proposed bills, committees, and more http://www.state.ma.us/legis/
• Department of Early Education and Care http://www.eec.state.ma.us/
  

      United States Government

• Finding your congresspersons and senators http://www.congress.org/
• Finding and tracking proposed bills http://thomas.loc.gov/
• U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services http://www.acf.dhhs.gov/
• U.S. Dept. of Justice, Civil Rights Division http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/crt-home.html
• U.S. Dept. of Labor, Employment & Training Administration  http://www.doleta.gov/etainfo/

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