Transcript Tracking Poverty in Utah

Tracking Poverty in Utah
Utah Community Action
Partnership Association
Two Publications
Purpose
• Education
• Media Exposure
• Advocacy
Goals
• Provide good reliable data
• Provide information that easily
understood and accessed by the
public
• Inform legislators about solutions
to poverty
• Media event
UCAPA Annual Report
• Published by UCAPA
• Funded by State Community
Services Office
• Used to educate local officials and
legislators about CAAs
UCAPA Report
• Poverty Data
• Data about Individual CAAs
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Poverty in Utah
• Annual Report published by Utah
Issues
• Media Event
• Funded by State with CSBG
Discretionary dollars
Poverty in Utah
• Executive Summary
– Use for media
– Talking points
– Includes all main points
Poverty in Utah
• Definitions of Poverty
– Poverty thresholds/guidelines
– Demographics
– Limits of Poverty Measures
• Functional Poverty
• Self-Sufficiency Standard
• 200% of Poverty
• Shelter Poverty
Poverty in Utah
• Causes of Poverty
– Access to Employment
– Access to Sufficient Wages
– Access to Health Care
– Income Inequality
– Asset Poverty
Poverty in Utah
• Issue Sections
– Health
– Housing
– Hunger
– Taxes
– Training & Education
– Welfare
Poverty in Utah
• Each issue section includes three
subsections:
– PROBLEM
– CURRENT RESPONSES
– LONG-TERM SOLUTIONS
Poverty in Utah
• State & County Level Data
• Charts, Graphs & Photos
For more information…
• UCAPA
– www.utahcap.org
– [email protected]
• Utah Issues
– www.utahissues.org
– [email protected]