Program status name and step value available as tokens

I would like to print as a variable the name of the lead's current program status, and the number value of the step. At the moment there is no way to do this and I am finding myself having to define lengthy manual if statements where "If green, set field value to green, if red, set field value to red" - really clumsy and completely unnecessary. Perhaps we could have access to these values in the trigger "Program Status is Changed"?