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	Child Poverty in Massachusetts: A Tale of Two States Report from Mass. Citizens for Children on increasing child poverty in Massachusetts calls for a coordinated state effort to reduce child poverty.		9/17/2008
	Coming up short: High food prices outstrip food stamp benefits (C-SNAP report) `Today C-SNAP's latest report, 'Coming up short: High food costs outstrip food stamp benefits,' shows that the maximum food stamp benefit is insufficient to buy the Thrifty Food Plan (the diet upon which food stamp benefits are based) in any size food store in Boston and Philadelphia. Attached are the report and a press release about it.`		9/8/2008
	Poverty Stats: Comparative Analysis of 1990 And 2000 Census Bureau Pvty Stats For Mass. Counties John Howat at NCLC has compiled the attached data on poverty changes in Mass between 1989 and 1999. Among his interesting findings is that there was an incease of 24% in the population of people below 50% of poverty. Some of this increase is perhaps attributable to the fact that there was a decrease in the population of people between 50% and 74% of poverty, suggesting that people who lost benefits because of welfare reform fell from above 50% of FPL to below 50% of FPL.		8/28/2002
	Welfare Reform Advisory Committee 2004 Report - MLRI dissent Attached is MLRI's dissent from the DTA Welfare Reform Advisory Committee's 2004 report. The report with this dissent, comments of the Mass Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition and others is available on the DTA website (www.mass.gov/dta).		11/30/2004