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Research/Evaluation Report
Texas Economic Supports for Working Families: A Product of the Bridging the Gaps Project
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Provides information on the ability of workers who are supporting families to cover their basic expenses through a combination of work and government work supports.
“This report provides key background information about Texas’ population, economic and policy environment, briefly summarizes the availability and key features of programs that are available to support Texas working families, discusses results from the simulation of resources and expenses for the hypothetical family at different earnings levels across four Texas cities, and offers conclusions to help guide further work on this topic” (p.V). (Abstractor: Author).
Major Findings and Recommendations
“The Family Resource Simulator (FRS) is an important tool for identifying how program policies could be modified to be equitable to low-income children from all types of families.
The following conclusions were drawn from this analysis:
• Complex program rules make it difficult to estimate how many low-income families are actually eligible for work supports or to quantify the number of qualified families who apply but do not receive services due to budget limitations.
• Constantly changing and contradictory eligibility standards exclude eligible families from services because of confusion about program rules.
• Existing policies even for single-parent families — the family type for which most government programs are primarily designed — do not uniformly support work effort and advancement in the Texas labor force.
• More research is needed to determine how well work support policies interact to support work effort and advancement for other common types of Texas low income families, such as two-parent families and immigrant families.
• Without action, Texas faces an impending crisis due to its changing demographics” (p.viii). (Abstractor: Author).
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- Resource Publication Date: 2007
- Author(s): Schexnayder, Deanna; Tang, Ying; Hill, Brendan; Oldmixon, Sarah Looney
- Organizational Author(s): The Ray Marshall Center for the Study of Human Resources at the University of Texas at Austin
- Funding Source: Center for Economic and Policy Research
- Resource Availability: Publicly available
- Posted by: Wesley Peterson
- Posted in: Workforce System Strategies