Thursday, July 8, 2010

Self Sufficiency Data for Oshkosh

You may recall that some months back Patti Vickman of the Oshkosh Area School District and Sue Panek of the Oshkosh Area United Way presented information on a grassroots initiative called the Self Sufficiency Project. The group has a few different subcommittees working on tasks to further the work of the group.

One such subcommittee, the "Dashboard" team has assembled local data on "self-sufficiency" in the Oshkosh area. I thought that you might be interested in this data.

Visit the webpage at: http://www.oshkoshpubliclibrary.org/community/selfsufficiency
The introduction to the page is as follows:
"Everyday thousands of low-income children and families are struggling to become self-sufficient. They're faced with the hard realities of low-wage work, child care problems, insufficient access to health care, food insecurity, and homelessness.

The data found on this webpage presents a snapshot of the Oshkosh community, including Winneconne and Omro, on issues that impact the ability of an individual or family to be self-sufficient (i.e. employment, housing, health care, food and child care)."

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