TAP’s typical client is a single mother of two, struggling to support her family with an annual income of less than $15,000. She is representative of a growing number of working poor people in the Chicago metropolitan area, considering that:

• 23% of working families in Illinois are low-income;
• Almost 950,000 households in the Chicago metropolitan region earn less than $35,000 a year ; and
• Nearly 360,000 households in the Chicago metropolitan region earn less than $15,000 a year.

Individuals who earn an annual income of less than $15,000 and families who earn an annual income of less than $40,000 are eligible for TAP’s services. TAP operates neighborhood sites throughout the city and surrounding suburbs in order to connect our programs and volunteers directly to residents of underserved communities.

TAP impacts families throughout the Chicago metropolitan region.