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johnkramlich/federal-poverty-level
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A PHP library for working with data associated with the United States Federal Poverty Level (FPL). Household income, as a percentage of FPL is often used to determine eligibility for government assistance programs such as Medicaid.

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federalPovertyLevel
===================

[](#federalpovertylevel)

A PHP library for working with data associated with the United States Federal Poverty Level (FPL). Household income, as a percentage of FPL is often used to determine eligibility for government assistance programs such as Medicaid.

More information about the Federal Poverty Limit can be found [here](http://aspe.hhs.gov/poverty/index.cfm).

```
$fpl = new FederalPovertyLevel();

$fpl->setYear(2014)
    ->setState('MO')
    ->setPersonsInHousehold(2)
    ->setHouseholdIncome(15000);

// Get Household's percentage of Federal Poverty Level
$percentageOfFpl = $fpl->getPovertyGuidelineAsPercentage(); // e.g. 50

// Get Household's percentage of Federal Poverty Level as decimal
$percentageOfFpl = $fpl->getPovertyGuidelineAsDecimal(); // e.g. 0.5
```

\## Installation ### Via Composer

[](#via-composer)

1. federalPovertyLevel is available on [Packagist](https://packagist.org).
2. It can be installed as a dependency of your project by running

    ```
     $ composer require-dev johnkramlich/federal-poverty-level

    ```

\## Author John Kramlich -  -

If you use this library please send me an email / tweet and let me know. I always like to know when my code is useful to others.

\## License federalPovertyLevel is licensed under the MIT License - see the `LICENSE` file for details

###  Health Score

19

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LowBetter than 10% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity3

Limited adoption so far

Community7

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity41

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

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### Community

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