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Benefits Cliffs as a Barrier to Career Advancement for Low-Income Adults: Insights from Employment Services Providers
How do employment service providers explain benefits cliffs to clients who want to advance in their careers? To answer this question, the authors conducted three focus groups with a range of employment service providers. Focus group participants report that counselors and clients struggle to manage benefits loss because of a lack of clarity on program rules and difficulty finding appropriate jobs that pay enough to outweigh the loss of benefits. When advising clients about career advancement, counselors use a range of intake processes to determine clients’ immediate needs and assess their ...
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Economic Well-Being of U.S. Households in 2024
Results from the 2024 Survey of Household Economics and Decisionmaking (SHED), which was fielded in October, indicate that people’s financial well-being was similar to the previous two years but below the high reached in 2021. Concerns about prices persisted, and labor market conditions remained solid. Inflation and prices continued to be the top financial concern. A majority of adults also said that changes in the prices they paid over the prior year had made their finances worse, but the share saying so declined from 2023. In response to higher prices, most people reported taking actions ...