Career Ladder Identifier and Financial Forecaster, or CLIFF, is a suite of interactive career and financial planning tools designed to provide information about benefits loss along a career path. Learn more about the audience and purpose of each tool.
We partner with a variety of public, private, and nonprofit entities throughout the United States to improve awareness of benefits cliffs, deploy interactive tools that empower low- and moderate-income workers to pursue career pathways that advance economic mobility and resilience, and support analysis of proposed pilots and program changes that mitigate cliffs. Learn more about the customized tools and research briefs we have created to support the specific needs of our partners.
The Policy Rules Database is publicly available and can be used for research on public assistance programs and tax policies and in modeling benefits cliffs on career pathways.
The minimum household budget, based on our partnership with United for ALICE, provides county-level estimates of the household basics necessary to live and work in the modern economy.
