CSI & Imagine LA De-mystify the Social Safety Net for Working Families
Release Date: 10/25/2021
CSI & Imagine LA De-mystify the Social Safety Net for Working Families
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USC Senior Olivia Olson, speaks with USC Price Center for Social Innovation & Imagine LA to understand a partnership study that examined the complex social safety network for low-income working families to identify stagnation points.
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info_outlineToday, USC Senior Olivia Olson, speaks with USC Price Center for Social Innovation and Imagine LA to understand a partnership study that examined the complex social safety network for low-income working families to identify stagnation points.
The study looked at the total resources families have available and identified the threshold points where the safety net may actually become a barrier towards economic independence — a benefits cliff, where an increase in earnings leaves a family worse off, or a resource plateau, where such an increase leaves a family no better off in terms of the total resources available to them (income and benefits).
Most families receiving social benefits will experience lengthy resource plateaus, where an increase in earned income is met with the equivalent loss of some benefit. However, the ecosystem of social benefits is challenging to navigate and protects mainly families with extremely low incomes by providing childcare and housing benefits.
This partnership also created a tool for families to use to help with the complexities of the myriad benefits available to them, how these benefits overlap. Learn about the policy recommendations and demystify the complex social safety for low-income working families.
Olivia Olson, USC Dornsife Senior
Leilani Reed, Imagine LA Program Graduate and Ambassador
Jill Govan Bauman, President & CEO, Imagine LA
Brit Moore Gilmore, Director Of Business Development at Aneuvia | Social Enterprise & Small Business Consultant
Soledad De Gregorio, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Price Center for Social Innovation
Gary Painter, Professor, Chair of the Department of Public Policy, Director of the Sol Price Center for Social Innovation
Director, Homelessness Policy Research Institute