Income Tax Credit for Low-Income Individuals and Families: Information for Families

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This brief from the Office of Child Support Enforcement encourages eligible taxpayers to file for the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC). Last year across the United States, about 27 million taxpayers received more than $65 billion in EITC; despite this success, about 25% of eligible filers do not claim it. The brief includes helpful information about qualification levels, useful resources, and how to claim the EITC.
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2016-12-15T19:00:00
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City/County
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https://www.acf.hhs.gov/css/resource/income-tax-credit-for-low-income-working-i…
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2016-12-16

Making Saving Easy and Fun for Low-Income Families

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Commonwealth, an Annie E. Casey Foundation grantee, recently launched an incentive program to help Americans build savings through a program called Prize Savings. Prize Savings allows Walmart MoneyCard customers to enter monthly sweepstakes that awards cash prizes when the customers elect to save. This proven strategy that motivates positive financial behaviors can help families build savings and assets.
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2017-01-04T19:00:00
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OFA Initiatives
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City/County
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http://www.aecf.org/blog/making-saving-easy-and-fun-for-low-income-families/
Publication Date
2017-01-05

State Fact Sheets: How States Have Spent Funds Under the TANF Block Grant

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States spend only half of their combined federal and state dollars under Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) on basic assistance for families with children, child care for low-income families, and work-related activities or supports. These fact sheets from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities examine in detail how states are using their TANF funds.
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2017-01-04T19:00:00
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OFA Initiatives
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City/County
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http://www.cbpp.org/research/family-income-support/state-fact-sheets-how-states…
Publication Date
2017-01-05

Training and Employment Notice 25-16: Release and Availability of the Technical Assistance Resource, Career Pathways Toolkit: An Enhanced Guide and Workbook for System Development

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The Employment and Training Administration recently issued this Training and Employment Notice (TEN). This TEN formally announces the availability of a technical assistance resource, the Career Pathways Toolkit: An Enhanced Guide and Workbook for System Development, for states, localities, tribes, and other stakeholders developing career pathways systems.

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2016-12-21T19:00:00
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OFA Initiatives
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City/County
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https://wdr.doleta.gov/directives/corr_doc.cfm?docn=8120
Publication Date
2016-12-22

Research and Evaluation in 2016

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This blog post from the Administration for Children and Families’ Family Room Blog highlights the work of the Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation in 2016. Some notable examples of successful research and evaluation projects include: a video on using behavioral science insights to increase child support collections in Cuyahoga County, Ohio; a report that examines similarities and differences among executive functioning skills for children aged three through six; and a report on the early impacts of two approaches to subsidized employment for TANF participants in Los Angeles.
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ACF Blog Spotlight
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2016-12-28T19:00:00
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City/County
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https://www.acf.hhs.gov/blog/2016/12/acf-research-and-evaluation-in-2016
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2016-12-29

TANF Caseload and Application Data for the Fourth Quarter of FY 2016

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The Office of Family Assistance published the TANF caseload and application data for the fourth quarter of fiscal year (FY) 2016, which completes the data for FY 2016. The data include assistance through state TANF and separate state program maintenance-of-effort (SSP-MOE) programs. In FY 2016, an average of 1.52 million families received TANF and SSP-MOE cash assistance each month, representing approximately 3.9 million recipients. In comparison to FY 2015, 7.0 percent fewer families received cash assistance.
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2017-01-11T19:00:00
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City/County
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https://www.acf.hhs.gov/ofa/resource/tanf-caseload-data-2016
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2017-01-12
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Home-Grown Social Capital: How Higher Education for Formerly Incarcerated Women Facilitates Family and Community Transformation

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This study from the Aspen Institute explores how justice-involved women experience family relationships. The researchers conducted interviews and focus groups with women enrolled in College and Community Fellowship, a program that helps justice-involved women successfully complete their college education. These interviews showed the pivotal role that social capital, in the form of family support, plays in enabling these women to complete college. Furthermore, as justice-involved women complete education, they become important sources of social capital within their communities. The authors pose several recommendations to help cultivate social capital among women with convictions.
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2015-08-31T20:00:00
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City/County
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https://ascend.aspeninstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/2015093020Social20…
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2015-09-01

Personal Solutions: Personal Action, Collective Impact

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This chapter of The Shriver Report: A Woman’s Nation Pushes Back From the Brink, describes the efforts undertaken by the Aspen Institute to help low-income women attain self-sufficiency. Ascend, a program of the Aspen Institute, commissioned a series of conversations with women and girls across the country to find out what information and resources they felt they were missing. Based on these conversations, Ascend came up with three ideas to put women on the path to self-sufficiency: two-generation strategies, the economic potential of social capital, and 21st-century Life Education. The report includes several examples of social capital initiatives across the country from Family Independence Initiative, the Crittenton Women’s Union, and the University of South Florida.

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2013-12-31T19:00:00
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City/County
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http://shriverreport.org/personal-solutions-centering-personal-decisions-and-co…
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2014-01-01

Final Rule: Flexibility, Efficiency, and Modernization in Child Support Enforcement Programs

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The Flexibility, Efficiency, and Modernization in Child Support Enforcement Programs final rule makes changes to strengthen the child support enforcement program. Additionally, it updates current processes to: increase regular, timely payments to families; increase the number of noncustodial parents supporting their children; and improve program operations.
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2016-12-19T19:00:00
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Final Rule
Press Release
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2016-12-20
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Work-Based Learning in Action

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This resource from Jobs for the Future (JFF) includes case studies that highlight effective work-based learning models. JFF identified seven principles that support low-skilled youth and adults seeking to enter and excel in a career. The principles include: supporting entry and advancement in a career track; providing meaningful job tasks that build career skills and knowledge; offering compensation; identifying target skills and how gains will be validated; rewarding skill development; supporting college entry, persistence, and completion; and providing comprehensive student supports.
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2015-12-31T19:00:00
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City/County
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http://www.jff.org/publications/work-based-learning-action
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2016-01-01