ARC's Senior Researcher Seth Wessler will be speaking on the experts panel at the House and Senate briefings on TANF reauthorization.

Ending Poverty, Not Welfare
A Grassroots Congressional Briefing on TANF Reauthorization
Thursday, Feb. 25, 2010
Washington, D.C.

10am-11:30am  House Rayburn Gold Room, 2nd floor
and
2-3:30pm  Senate Dirksen G11

In the coming year, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), the legislation that created welfare reform, will be reauthorized. Hbear from the most important stakeholders in this process – low-income mothers and their children - about how we can strengthen our nation’s safety net, while creating pathways out of poverty for low-income women and their families.

Also hear from Elizabeth Lower-Basch from the Center for Law and Social Policy, Lisalyn Jacobs from Legal Momentum, Avis Jones-DeWeever , Ph.D. from the National Council of Negro Women and Seth Wessler from the Applied Research Center as they share the newest research on the impact of welfare reform on low-income women and their families.

Hosted by Women for Economic Justice (WEJ)
A national network of grassroots, low-income women-led organizations
working to end poverty under TANF reauthorization and to achieve
economic justice for low-income women, their families, and communities.

Women for Economic Justice
Community Voices Heard (NY)
Georgia Citizens’ Coalition on Hunger
LIFETIME: Low-Income Families’ Empowerment through Education (CA)
9to5 National Association for Working Women (WI/CA/CO)
Ohio Empowerment Coalition / Contact Center
POWER: Parents Organizing for Welfare and Economic Rights (WA)
WEEL: Working for Equality and Economic Liberation (MT)

Sponsors
The Honorable Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY)
The Honorable Jim McDermott (D-WA)
The Honorable Barbara Lee (D-CA)
The Honorable Pete Stark (D-CA)
The Honorable Judy Chu (D-CA)
The Honorable Gwen Moore (D-WI)
The Honorable Edolphus Town (D-NY)
American Association of University Women
Applied Research Center
Center for Community Change
Center for Law and Social Policy
Coalition on Human Needs
Insight Center for Community Economic Development
Institute for Women’s Policy Research
Legal Momentum
National Council of Negro Women
*Both sessions will cover the same topics. WEJ is hosting two briefings to give
interested parties more opportunities to attend.  For more information contact Diana Spatz,
Executive Director of LIFETIME at dspatz@geds-to-phds.org or 510.352.5160.