Coloradoan: Poverty benefits in need of policy changes
Work doesn't pay for many low-income families when their income reaches the point that their public assistance drops off and they end up in worse financial shape.
The "cliff effect" of losing benefits such as food stamps, income tax credits and child care subsidies varies across Colorado, Nancy Cauthen, deputy director of the National Center for Children in Poverty, said during a lecture Thursday at the University Center for the Arts.
But the bottom line is a single mother of two working an $8-an-hour job and receiving a variety of benefits likely is to be more solvent than if she earned twice as much with sharply reduced benefits, Cauthen said. …
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