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State workforce board backs staff plan to pilot benefits‑cliff tools after Atlanta Fed briefing; Martha O’Brien pilot shows income gains
Summary
After a Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta briefing on benefits cliffs and a presentation from Martha O’Brien Center, the State Workforce Board asked staff to develop a pilot that uses benefits‑cliff modeling and coaching tools; the board discussed scaling Martha O’Brien’s Our Chance Tennessee pilot and requested further data.
The State Workforce Board voted to ask staff to develop a pilot to deploy benefits‑cliff modeling tools and coaching within the board’s existing delivery network after a briefing from the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and presentations about a local demonstration pilot.
Britney Birkin, director and principal adviser at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta’s Center for Workforce and Economic Opportunity, told the board that benefits cliffs occur when modest wage increases cause a household to lose eligibility for public assistance, leaving families financially worse off.
Birkin described the Atlanta Fed’s tools for mapping “net financial resources” (income after taxes plus public assistance minus basic household expenses and taxes), and demonstrated a county‑level dashboard that…
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