NEW YORK, 2 December 2009 — As unemployment in the United States reaches its highest level in decades, the Ford Foundation today announced a five-year, $80 million effort to ensure Americans get the support they need to stabilize family incomes, cope with unemployment, and keep the jobs they have.
The initiative will focus on two related areas:
* Strengthening programs and policies that improve job quality for U.S. workers, especially low-wage employees
* Helping states modernize the delivery of existing public programs to ensure working Americans are able to meet basic needs when their wages are too low to support a family
FULL STORY: http://www.fordfound.org/newsroom/pressreleases/338
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