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The Atlanta Fed presents the CLIFF tools as part of their Advancing Careers Initiative, through which the bank seeks to understand and address benefits cliffs through four focus areas: 1. conducting research to better understand benefits cliffs; 2. engaging with local and state partners to find solutions; 3. developing information tools for low- and moderate-income populations to provide information about benefits cliffs along a career path; and 4. raising issue awareness, through hosting policy summits, writing short briefs, and developing information tools.

We have asked the Atlanta Fed for additional information and will update this report with any they provide.

Atlanta Fed Partnership With Connecticut The Atlanta Fed partnered with the state of Connecticut to create tools specific to Connecticut’s five workforce regions. These include a CLIFF Dashboard for “in-demand career pathways” in each of the state’s five local workforce development regions. The tool allows users to provide information about their household and target occupation to produce projections about income and public assistance specific to the selected career path. Project partners include Connecticut’s 2-Gen Initiative and the Governor’s Workforce Council. (For more information about benefits cliffs in Connecticut, including a 2020 informational forum held by the Human Services Committee, see OLR Report 2022-R-0259).

Additional Resource Office of Early Childhood – University of Connecticut Research Partnership, “Final Report on the Connecticut Benefit Cliff Pilot: A Final Report to the Connecticut 2 Gen Advisory Board,” June 13, 2022.

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