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The OFA PeerTA Archive captures historical information from the peerta.acf.hhs.gov website for reference and record-keeping purposes. The PeerTA site contains information posted within the past three years. You can search for any prior information below.
Child poverty rates are increasing in Michigan, and since 2000, the child poverty rate rose from 14 percent to 17 percent. In Detroit, 72 percent of children live in families that are low-income. For a two parent family with two children, the…
This document shows that outdated minimum wages and the Federal Earned Income Tax Credit alone do not suffice in the struggle to help low-income families build assets. Instead, it is important for states to set a state minimum wage and establish…
While the Earned Income Tax Credit has traditionally been viewed as an anti-poverty policy, Alan Berube, from the Brookings Institution, offers insight into how the EITC can have significant effects on local and regional economies. In San Antonio…
From the Welfare Policy Research Project, this research article reviews a study in California on the effects of the 60-month TANF time limit. As a result of 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act, all adults receiving welfare are…
This research brief, from the Families and Work Institute, provides information on how employers can engage low-wage workers to increase job retention. Utilizing a sample of 3,504 workers, researchers found that workers who feel supported and…
From the Urban Institute, this article reviews State tax policy in times of recession. Often times, tax increases carries a higher tax burden for low-income working families. However, low-income families can be protected from increases through…
A representative from the Green Hills Community Action Agency would like to know if other rural Community Action Partnership workers deal with the daily check-in for job search activity clients that have transportation limitations, no phone, no email, and a one day a week caseworker in their location?
A representative from the Arkansas Division of Public Assistance would like to know what states currently, or plan to, consider TANF participants in a countable work activity if they are providing childcare for the child of another TANF participant engaged in unpaid work activities?
A representative from Washington State would like to know which cities/states are utilizing contracted Doctors to provide medical statements to screen participants into suitable employment when possible? Seattle, Washington is struggling with the types of medicals received from the client's own Doctors which tend to say the client is unable to perform any type of work.
Since the inception of the Federal EITC, a rising number of States have provided their own State EITCs for working families. States that enact EITCs can reduce child poverty, increase effective wages, and cut taxes for low-income working families…
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