In the News

MASSCAP monitors and reports on issues of importance for low-income communities in Massachusetts—whether developments are occurring in the state or on the national level. Look here for news updates from the policy and legislative front as well as for feature stories on CAA programs.

• Headline News
• CAA Feature Stories
• News Archive

Headline News

• MASSCAP Offers Policy Recommendations to New Governor (PDF).
• MASSCAP Recognizes Individuals for Supporting Self-Sufficiency Programs
• Head Start Works: But Bush's Changes Would Limit Its Effectiveness
• Massachusetts Community Action Agencies Work to Meet the Crisis
• MASSCAP Co-Sponsors Groundbreaking Workforce Development Conference
• Self-Sufficiency Standard Updated
• New Grant Will Advance Massachusetts Community Action Agencies’ Efforts to Assist Low-Income People Gain Digital Age Skills
• The MASSCAP IT Project: Current News & Background
• MASSCAP’s IT Project: Highlights from 2002
• MASSCAP Advancing Two Joe Kennedy Programs to Help Low-Income People

CAA Feature Stories

• IT Access and Education Projects at Massachusetts CAAs: Profiles
• Citizens for Citizens’ Senior Cyber Café in Fall River: The Newest IT Access and Education Project at a Massachusetts CAA
• PACE Celebrates 20 Years of Service to Greater New Bedford
• Citizens for Citizens: Bringing Seniors and Kids Together
• Action's FFIT Program: Displaced Fishermen, Families Gain New Job Skills in Gloucester
• Montachusett Opportunity Council: Families First
• ABCD's Urban College of Boston
• Community Team Work: Head Start Program

News Archive

General

• State Cutbacks That Hit Kids, Elders, and the Poor Just Deepen the Crisis (Winter 2002)
• MASSCAP Presents 2001 Awards, Elects New Leadership (Winter 2002)
• MASSCAP and member CAAs Join in Project to Distribute 45,600 Coats to Needy Families (Winter 2002)

Legislative/Public Policy News

• FY 2000 Massachusetts Budget: How Issues of Interest to MASSCAP Fared (11/99)
• FY 2001 Massachusetts Budget Fails to Include CAPS to Verify Client Eligibility for Low-Income Utility Discounts

See also the Public Policy and Publications sections of this Web site.

Information Technology News

• MASSCAP Convenes Conference on "The Digital Age" and Its New Challanges (April 2002)
• New Federal and State Grants Help Projects at CAAs in Efforts to Close the Digital Divide (Winter 2002)
• IT Access & Education Projects at Massachusetts CAAs (April 2001)

See also the Special Topics area of this Web site for IT information and resources.