[The Network] Fwd: CPIN: RESOURCE--The Self-Sufficiency Standard for Colorado 2015

 

 

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From: CPIN Director <director@cpinetwork.org>
To: cpinlistserv@googlegroups.com
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2015 15:06:15 -0600
Subject: CPIN: RESOURCE--The Self-Sufficiency Standard for Colorado 2015
 

Dear Service Providers,

 

Please see the email below as well as the attachment regarding the Self-Sufficiency Standard for Colorado 2015 from the Colorado Center on Law and Policy.

 

 

Meg K. Allen

Director
Colorado Providers for Integration Network

director@cpinetwork.org
(720) 663-0205
 

Check out our website for immigrant integration resources!
http://cpinetwork.org

 

Immigrant integration is a dynamic, two-way process in which newcomers and the receiving society work together to build secure, vibrant, and cohesive communities. As an intentional effort, integration engages and transforms all community members, reaping shared benefits and creating a new whole that is greater than the sum of its parts (Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees ).

 

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http://cclponline.org/pub_library/self-sufficiency-standard-for-colorado-2015/

 

The Colorado Center on Law and Policy is publishing The Self-Sufficiency Standard for Colorado 2015 in an effort to ensure the best data and analyses are available to enable Colorado’s families and individuals to make progress toward real economic security. The result is a comprehensive, credible, and user-friendly tool. At the heart of this report is the Self-Sufficiency Standard itself. This measure describes how much income families of various sizes and compositions need to make ends meet without public or private assistance in each county in Colorado.

The Self-Sufficiency Standard is a measure of income adequacy that is based on the costs of basic needs for working families: housing, child care, food, health care, transportation, and miscellaneous items, as well as the cost of taxes and the impact of tax credits. In addition, this report provides for each family type, in each place, the amount of emergency savings required to meet needs during a period of unemployment or other emergency.

The Standard presented here is a tool that can be used in a variety of ways—by clients of workforce and training programs seeking paths to self-sufficiency, by program managers to evaluate program effectiveness, and by policymakers and legislators seeking to create programs and pathways that lead to self sufficiency for working families.

 

 

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