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4'50 <br />¦ IFC serves clients that work in or have a Chapel Hill or Carrboro address. <br />¦ IFC provides services by appointments (food, financial assistance and <br />clothing vouchers) that usually take an hour once all of the information is <br />gathered. <br />¦ Staff does everything possible to consider walk-ins requesting groceries if the <br />schedule permits. <br />¦ Because of the increased demand for services, particularly among the <br />working poor, IFC expanded services to evening hours beginning in January <br />2002 in partnership with the NC Hillel Foundation. Attachment 1 represents an <br />existing Crisis Intervention Budget showing the minimum-projected costs <br />based on this arrangement. <br />¦ Attachments II and 111 are sample forms that are used by IFC staff and <br />volunteers for various requests. <br />Economic Points to Consider: <br />¦ One out of six American children lived in poverty last year when the economy <br />was flourishing <br />¦ 6.6 million North Carolinians live in poverty; and 13% of those living in poverty <br />are below the poverty level. <br />¦ In Orange County an hourly wage of $14.94 is now needed to afford a two <br />bedroom dwelling unit <br />¦ Two out of three North Carolina children living in poverty are hungry <br />¦ 203,117 households (470,000 individuals) are receiving food stamps in North <br />Carolina <br />¦ One out of eight North Carolinians and one out of five children are now <br />enrolled in Medicaid <br />¦ One in six low-income households in North Carolina and 42% of all adults on <br />Work First, the state's welfare program, do not have bank accounts <br />¦ Social Security Income (SSI) recipients receiving a monthly income of $512 <br />can afford monthly rent of no more than $154, while the fair market rent for a <br />one-bedroom unit in Orange County is now $662; the income needed for the <br />one bedroom fair market rate is now $26,480 ($12.73 per hr.) <br />¦ In North Carolina, 39% of renter households pay more than 30% of their <br />income for rent <br />¦ A full-time minimum wage job in Orange County keeps a homeless person <br />below the government's official poverty line <br />¦ Social Service dollars are decreasing at state and federal levels. We have <br />also experienced a greater number of contradictions with a number of <br />governmental programs that restrict opportunities for affordable housing, <br />universal health care, safeguarding our social security program for older <br />adults and paying living wages for all Americans. We applaud Orange <br />County for taking the lead in recommending a "Living Wage" of $9.11 per <br />hour, an economic principal that we advocate for continually in our <br />discussions with others.