Income
Earn It! Keep It! Save It! volunteers have helped more than 6,500 North Texas families receive over $10 million in federal tax refunds.
To break the cycle of poverty in North Texas, we have to help people help themselves. By enabling people who currently have low incomes to take charge of their lives and their finances, we help them make a better life for their families. By 2020, we can help 250,000 more people leave poverty permanently.
Last year, United Way programs helped 15,000 people on the road to financial stability, but we can do better by focusing on these United2020 key strategies:
- Increasing access to jobs — collaborating with nonprofits, employers and public sector organizations to help people in low-income neighborhoods find better jobs
- Job skills training — equipping people with the skills to earn good jobs and showing them how to keep those jobs
- Financial education — teaching people the money management skills to keep more of what they earn, and offering organized savings programs