December 2000 Conference Materials

The Anti-Poverty Network of New Jersey hosted a one day conference, Poverty: Many Faces, One New Jersey, on Tuesday, December 5, 2000, at the War Memorial in Trenton. The conference consisted of a series of workshops and presentations about the many aspects of poverty in New Jersey, the links that bind them together, and the need to address them comprehensively. Papers presented at the conference are itemized below by topic area and are available to download.

Materials from the APN Annual Conference, held on December 5, 2000

Conference Papers:

• Consumer

  • An Earned Income Tax Credit for New Jersey's Working Families (Association for Children of New Jersey)

• Education

  • Education and the Abbott Decision (The Coalition for Our Children's Schools)

  • Position Statement of Early Care and Education Coalition

  • Quality Indicators for Preschool Facilities (Association for Children of New Jersey)

  • Abbott Implementation Report: Second Year of Preschool (Education Law Center)

  • Abbott Opinions Prepared by the Education Law Center: #2 ["Adequate School Facilities"], #3 ["Whole School Reform"], #4 ["Supplemental Programs"], #5 ["Planning Programs and Budgets in Abbott Schools"]

• Employment

  • Working - But Still Poor In New Jersey (Association for Children of New Jersey)

  • Employment Effects - Employment for the TANF Family (Mercer Street Friends - 21st Century Cities Community Partnership Demonstration Project)

  • Poverty's Employment Effects: The Case for Paid Family Leave in New Jersey (Legal Services of New Jersey)

• Family Effects of Poverty

  • Domestic Violence Traps Women and Children in Poverty (New Jersey Coalition for Battered Women)

  • Family Effects of Poverty (Catholic Charities)

• Health

  • Health Effects of Poverty (Legal Services of New Jersey)

• Housing

  • Why Do We Need More Affordable Housing? (Housing and Community Development Network of NJ)

  • The Low-Income Housing Crisis in New Jersey (Legal Services of New Jersey)

• Nutrition Effects of Poverty

  • Hunger: One of the Many Faces of Poverty (Mercer Street Friends)

  • Nutrition Effects of Poverty (Center for Food Action in New Jersey)

  • Nutrition Effects of Poverty: From the Perspective of Hunger Programs in Central New Jersey (Emergency Services, Catholic Charities)

  • Poverty: Many Faces, One New Jersey

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