Economic Justice Content Topic Results
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July 2021
Prioritizing Financial Security in the Movement to End IPV: A Roadmap
Publisher(s): This report from FreeFrom examines stories, challenges, and solutions from over 50 service providers working in the IPV movement and provides a roadmap for what integrating financial work into the movement to end IPV could look like.
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June 2021
5 Things Every Woman Should Know About Social Security
Publisher(s):This document reviews key entitlements and qualifications for receiving social security benefits, including in the context of divorce or loss.
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May 2021
Living and Working with Disabilities: Tax Benefits and Credits
Publisher(s):This brochure outlines the various tax deduction, tax credit, and income inclusion programs available to people with disabilities. Information is also included for people with dependents who have disabilities and for employers accommodating employees with disabilities.
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April 2021
Domestic Violence and Economic Well-being Study: Service Provider Report
Publisher(s): Between October 2018 and July 2019, 627 survivors participated in a National Domestic Violence & Economic Well-being Study. This Service Provider Report shares first-cut key findings about study participants and their experiences of abuse, economic well-being, and financial help-seeking.
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- NRCDV Publications
March 2021
What is the role of TANF programs in preventing and addressing IPV and how can TANF workers best support survivors?
Publisher(s): Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) and poverty are mutually reinforcing and correlated. The March 2021 TA Question of the Month explores how Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) helps survivors afford the basics and rebuild their lives after violence.
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March 2021
Trust Survivors: Building an Effective and Inclusive Cash Assistance Program
Publisher(s): In this report, FreeFrom shares lessons learned from 1,000 survivors who received a Safety Fund grant in 2020 about how to build an effective and inclusive cash assistance program that will work for them. Overwhelmingly, survivors expressed that they need a program steeped in flexibility and trust.
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January 2021
Will getting the EITC or CTC lower government benefits?
Publisher(s):This page explains why claiming the EITC and CTC does not generally reduce eligibility for government benefits.
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January 2021
EITC and CTC Comparison Chart
Publisher(s):This chart compares EITC and CTC qualifications based on income, taxpayer ID number, filing status, age requirement, and child qualifications.
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- NRCDV Publications
- Training Tools
November 2020
NRCDV Radio Episode 38: Policy & Advocacy in Action: Survivors Know Best
Publisher(s): In the latest episode of Policy & Advocacy in Action, Marium Durrani, NRCDV's Director of Policy and Tannia Ventura, FreeFrom's Director of Service Provider Engagement & Education, discuss FreeFrom's report entitled: Survivors Know Best: How to Disrupt Intimate Partner Violence During COVID-19 and Beyond.
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- NRCDV Publications
- Training Tools
September 2020
National Prevention Town Hall 2020 Breakout Session 2C: Addressing Wage Equity & Economic Justice at All Levels of Our Movement
Publisher(s): In September 2020, the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence held its first National Prevention Town Hall. In this breakout session, presenters Merkeb Yohannes and Layla Elabed from the Michigan Coalition to End Domestic & Sexual Violence (MCEDSV) share lessons learned from MCEDSV's efforts to center economic justice and wage equity at all levels of their work, both internally and externally.
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- NRCDV Publications
August 2020
How can economic justice efforts lead to the prevention of sexual and domestic violence?
Publisher(s): Efforts to promote economic justice are critical to preventing domestic violence and supporting survivors. The August 2020 TA Question of the Month explores 3 key strategies for furthering the prevention of sexual and domestic violence through economic justice.
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August 2020
Survivors Know Best: How to Disrupt Intimate Partner Violence During COVID-19 and Beyond
Publisher(s):Through their Safety Fund launched in April 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, FreeFrom collected data from 1,300 survivors in 36 states and Puerto Rico on their financial health, the financial cost of experiencing abuse, what their needs are right now, and how our society can best support them through the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. This report details these findings and serves as a call to action for greater investment in and support for the long-term financial security and safety of survivors everywhere.