2016 Human Services Issue Paper

This human services issue paper is a supplement to the 2016 Fairfax County Legislative Program. Fairfax County has long recognized that investments in critical human services programs can and do save public funds by minimizing the need for more costly services. This is not the time to abandon those essential investments. Though 2009 is credited as being the end of the Great Recession, its impact has continued to take a toll on the County’s most vulnerable residents, as evidenced by the continued growth in Medicaid and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) caseloads. In 2014, the poverty rate in Fairfax County was 6.6 percent, which equates to 74,210 people in Fairfax County living in poverty, compared to 64,851 people in 2013. Additionally, the number of people living in deep poverty in Fairfax County – with an income less than about $12,125 for a family of four – jumped to 33,838 in 2014. Since the start of the economic downturn, an additional 7,792 children have slipped into poverty, bringing the total number to over 23,000, or 8.7 percent, of Fairfax’s children.

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Westfield, New Jersey, formerly known as the West Fields of Elizabeth was settled in 1720 and was incorporated as a town in 1903. The community is nearly fully-developed, with a population of 30,316 (2010 Census).

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