For additional information please refer to the following links.  NOTE -- this list is updated frequently, so please check back often:

GOVERNMENT SOCIAL/WELFARE PROGRAMS: 

Understand how these programs ALREADY work...and you will easily be able to understand how the WUF's PLAN can work. (NOTE all links will open in a new browser window)

Food Stamp Program/WIC

• US Department of Agriculture - Food & Nutrition Dept.

• Getting Food Stamps - it's your right.

• Food Stamp Program - Wikipedia

• Women, Infants and Children (WIC)

• WIC at a Glance

Section 8 Housing

• Housing Choice Vouchers - HUD

• National Housing Law Project - Section 8

• Section_8_(housing) - Wikipedia

Medicaid/CHIP

• Medicaid - Wikipedia

• Department of Health & Human Services - Medicaid General Info.

• CHIP Overview

Clothing Distribution

• see any local Salvation Army, Goodwill, or "industries" organization in your area.

MISC. ARTICLES - NEWS STORIES - EVENTS  (DISCLAIMER:  the views, stories and/or opinions in the following links are not necessarily those of the WUF - nor is any author, person or event mentioned therein associated with the WUF.  These are independent articles for your information only.)

• NEW - U.S. economy leaving record numbers in severe poverty

• NEW -  Poverty levels hit records

• The Real Cost of Hunger

• Modernizing Social Services

• Nobel Peace Prize Links Poverty Reduction to Peace

• UN Report - "Greatest Humanitarian Crisis Today..."

 

If you know of an article or story that should be included here please contact us.

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