The Center for Public Policy Priorities sent me a link to an amazing new tool for calculating the impact of "work supports," those public program benefits designed to assist hard working, low-income people, such as child care assistance, health insurance, the Earned Income Credit, food stamps and other public resources.
The "Texas Family Resource Simulator" will allow you to find out and create customized graphs illustrating how family resources and expenses change as earnings increase, taking into account public benefits.
A project of the National Center for Children in Poverty at Columbia University, with help from the Center for Public Policy Priorities, the tool is very enlightening.
Check it out at www.nccp.org/tools/frs.
To learn more about the Center for Public Policy Priorities, visit http://www.cppp.org/.
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have you ever read this blog?
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No, I hadn't until you directed me there. Thanks!
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