Welfare Radio Collaborative

A joint project of the National Radio Project's
Women's Desk and the Women of Color Resource Center (Collaborative was 2003 to 2006)

The Welfare Radio Collaborative was a training, radio production and empowerment project. Our purpose was to voice the issues, circumstances and effects of low-income women in the welfare system from all aspects of life - personal, political, social and economic.

We promoted in-depth reporting on issues related to women and welfare, and challenged media misrepresentation and racial stereotypes of women on welfare. This project was grounded in the research of journalists, welfare advocates, and women directly affected by welfare policies.

The Welfare Radio Collaborative:

• Trained and emploed women affected by welfare to produce radio documentaries about the welfare system.
• Provided political education on state and national welfare policies.
• Created news segments on welfare issues for Free Speech Radio News.
• Distributed to over 195 international and local radio stations as part of National Radio Project's weekly series, Making Contact.

The Welfare Radio Collaborative was funded in part by generous individuals, the Race, Gender and Human Rights Donor Circle at the Women's Foundation of California, and the Community Technology Foundation of California (CTFC), which helps underserved communities secure social justice, access and equity through the application of information and communications technologies.

For more information about the Welfare Radio Collaborative, please contact .

Programs by the Welfare Radio Collaborative - click through to descriptions for guest contact information and audio files.

18-05 Children Denied: Family Cap and Foster Care

43-04 Regulating Love
(featuring a Welfare Radio Collaborative segment)

07-04 A Poor System: Welfare Punishing Women

Other programs on economic justice from the Women's Desk and NationalRadio Project:

40-06 The Color of Wealth

20-06 Katrina Uncovers: Poverty in a Land of Plenty

45-05 Katrina Uncovers: Structural Injustice

39-05 Katrina Uncovers: Activism, Racism and Environmental Justice

42-02 House of Cards: The Affordable Housing Crisis

17-02 Going Hungry in a Land of Plenty

08-02 Temp Work: Full-Time Insecurity

02-02 Regulating Motherhood: Race, Class and Policy

51-01 War: An Enemy of the Poor

45-01 More for Our Buck? U.S. Tax Policy and Economic Inequality

29-01 House Hunt: Affordable Housing in the United States

12-01 Women and Welfare: Organizing for Survival

02-00 Hidden Truths: The Mass Media and Poverty

49-00 Share the Wealth! Organizing for Economic Justice

44-00 Shrinking Supply: Low-Income Housing in the U.S.

41-00 U.N. 2000: Representing the Poor or the Powerful?

50-99 Surplus Population or Marginalized and Poor?

44-99 The Debt Treadmill: Cyclical Poverty in the Third World

43-99 20 Year Low? Poverty in the U.S.

12-99 No More Wastelands: Environmental Justice (Part II)

11-99 No More Wastelands: Environmental Justice (Part I)

44-98 U.S. Poverty: Realities and Possibilities

35-98 Making Rent: The Struggle for Affordable Housing

34-98 Narrowing the Gap: Wealth and Economic Justice

31-98 Joblessness in the Inner-City

07-98 Poverty and Resistance: Welfare Reform