Presentations

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PRESENTATION: From Poverty to Prosperity: Investing in low wage workers (9.25.08)
Presented on September 25, 2008 to the Newport Chamber of Commerce

PRESENTATION: Rhode Island's Shrinking Safety Net (9.17.08)
Presented at the Women Ending Hunger conference on September 17, 2008

PRESENTATION: Changes to The Family Independence Program (6.08)
Powerpoint presentation from The Poverty Institute's June informational sessions on changes to The Family Independence Program.

PRESENTATION: Budget Rhode Map (1.10.08)
Powerpoint presentations from The Poverty Institute's Budget Rhode Map Conference, January 10, 2008.

PRESENTATION: General Overview of public benefits: 
The Poverty Institute and the URI Feinstein Center for a Hunger Free America recently presented information about public benefit programs in Rhode Island. 

PERSENTATION: Public Benefits Training
Between November and December, The Poverty Institute trained more than 500 social service providers and health care professionals on changes to public benefit programs including The Family Independence Program, RIte Care, and Child Care Assistance. 

PRESENTATION: RIte Care State Law Changes  (9.06)
The Poverty Institute's presentation illustrating the changes made to the RIte Care Program.

PRESENTATION: Citizenship Verification (9.06)
The Poverty Institute's powerpoint about the new Medical Assistance Citizenship Documentation Rule .

PRESENTATION: Tax Expenditure Limits:  A Bad Idea for Rhode Island (6.15.06)
The Poverty Institute's powerpoint about the problems with tax expenditure limits presented to the Central RI Chamber of Commerce.

PRESENTATION: The Family Independence Program (4.27.06)
The Poverty Institute's presentation which provides an overview of Rhode Island's Family Independence Program (FIP).

PRESENTATION: TANF Reauthorization: What does it mean for families and states? (4.27.06)
A presentation by Liz Schott from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.

PRESENTATION: RI Taxes and Economic Development: Presentation to the Joint Committee on Economic Development (4.5.06)
Ellen Frank's presentation:  RI Taxes and Economic Development.

PRESENTATION: The importance of welfare, child care and health care to female headed households.