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Fairfax, Virginia 22035
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Community Action Programs serve approximately 9.3 million individuals a year, or about one of every three of the 34.5 million Americans living in poverty. In FY 2002 the Fairfax County Community Action Program served 21,342 individuals. In general, clients:

  • Are very poor;
  • Live in families with children;
  • Are working at the time they seek help or have recently been in the workforce;
  • Represent the ethnic makeup of the US poverty population;
  • Have few tangible assets; and
  • Lack education and employable skills.