How the FRS Changes Policy:
Video of FRS Impact and Partners
FRS From Programming to Policy Change
Growing Pains: How Benefit Cliffs Can Derail Government Support
Addressing Benefit Cliffs with the Family Resource Simulator
FRS Impact on Policy:
The Family Resource Simulator: Two Decades of Impact
Family Resource Simulator Policy Impact Case Study
Through our Family Resource Simulator projects, NCCP works with state partners to identify state-specific solutions as well as federal reforms.
Current and Recent State Projects
Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
Funder: Pro bono through general support provided by Annie E. Casey Foundation
Partner: Allegheny County Department of Human Services
Year: 2019
Publications: (1) Modeling Family Budgets, Decision-making, and Policy Reforms Using the Family Resource Simulator, Presented at 2020 RECS Conference, (2) “Determining marginal tax rates, benefit cliffs, and impacts of policy changes using a hypothetical family approach.”, Presented at 2019 APPAM Conference
Colorado
Funder: Anonymous donor through Wellspring Philanthropic Fund
Partner: Colorado Center on Law and Policy
Publications: Three Policy Reforms to Help Low-Income Children in Colorado
Connecticut
Funder: The Alliance for Early Success
State Partner: Connecticut Association for Human Services
Year: 2019
District of Columbia
Funder: District of Columbia Department of Human Services
State Partner: District of Columbia Department of Human Services
Publications: (1) Technical Manual: The District of Columbia Family Resource Simulator, (2) Updating basic needs budgets to incorporate the impact of nontraditional work, pre-K, and after school programs, Presented at 2018 RECS Conference
Florida
Funder: Anonymous donor through Wellspring Philanthropic Fund
Partner: No official partner
Publications: The Florida Minimum Wage: How Much Can It Really Buy, and How High Should It Be?
Kentucky
Funder: Kentucky Center for Statistics (KYSTATS)
State Partner: Kentucky Center for Statistics (KYSTATS)
Year: 2020
Maine
Funder: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation
State Partner: Maine Department of Health and Human Services: Office for Family Independence
Year: 2021
New Hampshire
Funder: New Hampshire Department of Employment Security and NH Department of Health and Human Services
State Partner: EConsult Solutions, Inc., New Hampshire Department of Employment Security and NH Department of Health and Human Services
Year: 2020-2021
Publications:
(1) Constraints on New Hampshire’s Workforce Recovery: Impacts from COVID-19, Child Care and Benefit Program Design on Household Labor Market Decisions:
Presentation
Full Report
(2) Microsite report from NCCP’s partner, EConsult Solutions, which features town and county dashboards
(3) New Hampshire’s ‘Cliff Effect’ Initiative homepage
New Jersey
Funder: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
State Partner: New Jersey Policy Perspectives and New Jersey Citizen Action
Year: 2021
Publications:
(1) OpEd: Undocumented children deserve health care in N.J. and the sooner the better
(2) OpEd: NJ’s TANF program falls short in supporting families in poverty
Ohio
Funder: Anonymous donor through Wellspring Philanthropic Fund
State Partner: Policy Matters Ohio
Publications: Three Policy Reforms to Help Low-Income Children in Ohio
Wisconsin
Funder: Schmidt Futures
State Partner: Parsley
Year: 2021
National and Regional Projects
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
NCCP is currently under contract with the Atlanta Fed to support the development of a benefit rules database, which includes policy codes and policy variables for federal rules and state variations in CCDF, SNAP, Section 8, Medicaid, ACA subsidies, TANF, LIHEAP, Head Start, federally-funded meal programs, and federal, state, and local tax credits.
Year: 2020
US Department of Health and Human Services, Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE)
Study Title: A Model Effective Marginal Tax Rate Calculator for Families and Caseworkers
Contractor (or Intramural): Manhattan Strategy Group
Year: 2019
The recent Family Resource Simulator analyses have grown out of the Making Work Supports Work projects, funded by the Annie E. Casey Foundation.
Contacts
Seth Hartig, Director, Family Economic Security
hartig@nccp.org