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Subsidized Jobs for People Experiencing or At-Risk of Homelessness
May 27, 2021This advocacy resource makes the case for why Congress must enact an equity-centered national subsidized employment program as a part of COVID-19 economic recovery legislation, with a special focus on how subsidized employment strategies can benefit jobseekers experiencing or at-risk of homelessness. This resource was produced in partnership among Heartland Alliance, the Center for Law & Social Policy (CLASP), and the National Youth Employment Coalition. Subsidized employment advocates can use this resource to inform visits with elected officials about why subsidized employment must be a part of building back a better, stronger, and more inclusive and equitable economy in the wake of the COVID-19 recession.
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Subsidized Employment: A Proven Strategy for Supporting Rapid Economic Recovery
May 13, 2021This advocacy resource makes the case for why Congress must enact an equity-centered national subsidized employment programas a part of COVID-19 economic recovery legislation, as called for in the White House's proposed American Jobs Plan. This resource was produced in partnership among Heartland Alliance, the Center for Law & Social Policy (CLASP), and the National Youth Employment Coalition. Subsidized employment advocates can use this resource to inform visits with elected officials about why subsidized employment must be a part of building back a better, stronger, and more inclusive and equitable economy in the wake of the COVID-19 recession.
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Letter to Congress to Include an Equity-Centered National Subsidized Employment Program in the American Jobs Act
May 6, 2021Heartland Alliance joined the Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP), the National Youth Employment Coalition, and nearly 100 national and local organizations calling on Congress to include an equity-centered national subsidized employment program as a part of the forthcoming recovery package as recommended by President Biden in his American Jobs Plan. Through large-scale federal demonstrations and Heartland Alliance's experience running subsidized employment programs, we know that subsidized employment is an effective strategy for getting people who would not otherwise be working rapidly connected to jobs and earning income. This includes workers who have been displaced due to economic downturns as well as those who face chronic unemployment even when the economy is growing.
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Framework for an Equity-Centered National Subsidized Employment Program
January 12, 2021Developed in partnership with 16 national organizations, this framework lays out an equity-centered national subsidized employment program that can support an inclusive COVID-19 economic recovery. This framework describes a national subsidized employment program designed to quickly and efficiently get people working when it is safe to do so as well as ensure that people who have been left out of and left behind by our labor market have access to economic opportunity. This framework explicitly centers racial and gender equity.
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Systems Work Better Together: Strengthening Public Workforce & Homeless Service Systems Collaboration
March 30, 2018Drawing from in-depth interviews with public workforce and homeless service systems leaders and the work of our five Connections Project sites, this paper identifies common barriers to public workforce and homeless service systems collaboration and recommends how to address these barriers in order to help ensure that homeless and unstably housed jobseekers can access economic opportunity and stabilize in housing.
Preventing & Ending Homelessness Through Employment: Lessons Learned & Pathways Forward - 2017 National Summit
October 18, 2017Preventing & Ending Homelessness through Employment: Lessons Learned & Pathways Forward A national summit in collaboration with Heartland Alliance, the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness, and Funders Together to End Homelessness along with the support of the Melville Charitable Trust and the Oak Foundation.
Comments on New Federal Strategic Plan to End Homelessness
November 30, 2021These comments were provided in response to the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness' request for feedback on the revised Federal Strategic Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness. In crafting our response, staff from Heartland Alliance's Impact Division gathered input from 17 staff members across the Alliance's companies, including staff with lived experience of homelessness, staff working directly with adults and youth experiencing or at risk of homelessness, and staff working on policy and systems-level solutions to prevent and end homelessness.
Feedback on the Revised Federal Strategic Plan to Prevent & End Homelessness
July 10, 2020These comments were provided in response to the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness' request for feedback on the revised Federal Strategic Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness. This feedback reflects input from experts across Heartland Alliance, including Heartland Alliance Health, Hearltand Human Care Services, and Heartland Housing, among others.
SNAP ET Proposed Rule Letter
June 17, 2020Comments in response to Notice of Proposed Rulemaking: Employment andTraining Opportunities in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program RIN 0584-AE68
Comments in Opposition to Proposed Rulemaking: Revision of Categorical Eligibility in the SNAP Program
September 23, 2019This is a response in opposition to proposed rulemaking that would make eligibility changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). The proposed changes would cause serious harm to Heartland Alliance participants, Illinoisans experiencing hunger and poverty—including hundreds of thousands of working Illinoisans who are not earning enough to make ends meet—and millions of people across the country. In addition to taking away food assistance from millions of individuals, this proposed rule would make it more difficult for low-income individuals to save for the future, inequitably harm people of color and especially women of color, and greatly increase administrative burdens on agencies already operating at capacity. For these reasons, we believe the proposed rule should be withdrawn.
2019 National TANF State Directors’ Meeting Partnering to Build a Stronger Society
September 18, 2019These slides were presented at the 2019 National TANF State Directors' Meeting. The presentation gives an overview of one of the resources from our forthcoming TANF and WIOA Coordination and Collaboration Toolkit. The presentation gives a framework for systems coordination and collaboration, and provides choices that both the TANF and WIOA systems can make in order to deepen their efforts to work together and advance employment and economic opportunity for jobseekers receiving TANF.
Let's Go to Work: Connecting Clients to Jobs
July 24, 2019These slides were presented at the 2019 National Alliance to End Homelessness Conference in Washington, DC. The slides provide action-oriented steps that homeless service providers in communities can take to connect jobseekers experiencing homelessness to employment.
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