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Benefits for Working Families Tools and Resources
 Maximizing the Earned Income Tax Credit in Your Community: A Toolkit for Municipal Leaders (2004)
This Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) toolkit was created to help municipal leaders maximize the potential impact of the EITC by ensuring that eligible families have the information and assistance they need to claim these tax credits.
Based on the latest research and best practices from across the nation, this toolkit includes concrete ideas for action, city examples, roles for local elected officials, a sample timeline for activities, sample outreach campaign materials, and other national resources.
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 Action Kit on Helping Working Families
This action kit for municipal leaders focuses on outreach steps to assist low-income working families in accessing benefits such as the Child Health Insurance Program, food stamps, and the Earned Income Tax Credit.
This action kit describes steps that local elected officials can take to help working families by developing city-led outreach campaigns, including how to get started, proven outreach strategies, and background information and suggestions on places you can turn for help to start you on your way.
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 Action Kit on Helping Families Achieve Financial Stability (2008)
This action kit for municipal leaders focuses on steps that city officials can take to help families avoid debt and predatory lending, save and build assets, and achieve long-term financial stability.
The kit describes four key components of a comprehensive asset-building agenda: providing financial education; expanding access to savings and benefits; protecting family assets; and promoting and protecting homeownership. The kit also includes city examples, facts about families' financial stability and additional resources.
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 Screening Tools to Help Families Access Public Benefits (2005)
One of the most important – and least expensive – ways municipal officials can help low-income working families is through outreach and enrollment campaigns to ensure that they have access to the public benefits for which they are eligible.
This report provides municipal officials with approaches and specific technology options for using screening tools to connect eligible residents to key state and federal benefits. Highlighted in the report are several local, state, and nationally franchised electronic screening tools utilized by city governments.
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 Combating Poverty: Emerging Strategies from the Nation's Cities (2008)
This report highlights local poverty reduction strategies from 13 cities across the nation. The survey responses compiled in the report demonstrate how municipal leaders are well-positioned to lead citywide initiatives to reduce poverty.
Common themes highlighted in the report include municipal efforts to: create a coordinating entity to sustain progress over time; select specific targets for action; target vulnerable populations or neighborhoods; and push beyond traditional boundaries.
View the Combating Poverty Report »
Strengthening Families in America's Cities: Family Economic Security (2003)
Research findings published in this report are from NLC's Strengthening Families in America's Cities Survey of municipal officials, which examined issues affecting children and families in American cities and towns.
Among the findings are that homeownership incentives and transportation improvements are the strategies cities are most likely to use to improve family economic security; city leaders consider a wide range of strategies to be effective; and most officials say job training and education are effective in helping low-income families.
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Special Report on Earned Income Tax Credit Outreach (2002)
This Nation's Cities Weekly special report highlights city efforts to improve local economic development by bringing federal EITC dollars into the local economy.
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Special Report on Food Stamp Outreach (2002)
This Nation's Cities Weekly special report provides insight to food stamp outreach strategies and action steps for municipal officials.
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State and Local Support for Earned Income Tax Credit Outreach Campaigns (2006)
This report describes how state and local governments have strategically funded EITC outreach campaigns to help low-income families become more financially secure and bring additional federal dollars into local communities.
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 Nation's Cities Weekly Articles
NLC's Nation's Cities Weekly newspaper regularly features articles on how city leaders are helping families achieve financial stability.
View the Nation's Cities Weekly Archives for Articles About Family Economic Success »
Audioconference Transcripts
The YEF Institute's monthly audioconference series features talk-show style discussions between Institute staff, national experts, and city leaders to highlight best practices in a broad range of program areas. The Institute makes transcripts of these calls available for local officials who are unable to dial into the calls.
Project Homeless Connect Web Seminar
This web seminar, sponsored by the YEF Institute on Sept. 21, 2006, features Mary Ellen Hombs, deputy director of the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness; Judith Klain, director of Project Homeless Connect for the City of San Francisco; and Mike Dunthorn, project manager for the City of Knoxville, Tenn. (Note: Windows Media Player required to view this web seminar.)
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