Archive: Indi Dutta-Gupta
Lessons Learned from 40 Years of Subsidized Employment Programs: A Framework, Review of Models, and Recommendations for Helping Disadvantaged Workers
Subsidized employment is a promising strategy for boosting incomes and improving labor market outcomes and well-being, especially for disadvantaged workers. This report represents findings from an extensive review of evaluated or promising subsidized employment programs and models spanning four decades that target populations with serious or multiple barriers to employment in the United States.
The Tipped Minimum Wage Hasn’t Budged in 25 Years. That’s a Problem.
Originally posted on The Leadership Conference Education Fund After a quarter century, change has yet to come for tipped workers in the United States. Since 1991 – the last time the federal tipped minimum wage was increased – the first iPod was released and Google...
Opportunity, Responsibility, and Security: A Panel Discussion at the Ford Foundation
Watch Indivar Dutta-Gupta, Director of the center’s Project on Deep Poverty and Senior Fellow, speak about poverty and inequality at a convening of experts hosted by Spotlight in partnership with the Ford Foundation.
What Do the Numbers Tell Us? A Review of the Data on Economic Disparities
Panel In January, Indivar Dutta-Gupta, Director of the center’s Project on Deep Poverty, was a featured panelist in the Opening Session of the National Academy of Social Insurance’s annual conference. The panel, “What Do the Numbers Tell Us? A Review of the Data on...
What Candidates Should Say about Poverty and Opportunity at Ryan’s Forum
First published on TalkPoverty.org and cross-posted on BillMoyers.com. This Saturday, a number of Republican presidential candidates will converge in South Carolina to debate and discuss “fighting poverty and expanding opportunity in America.” We hope that they...
Raising Wages, Reducing Inequality, Sustaining Families: Why raising the minimum wage is a civil and human rights issue
In partnership with The Leadership Conference Education Fund, the center released provides an updated take on the importance of raising the minimum wage as a civil and human rights issue.
New Research Documents Growth of Extreme Poverty
Cross-posted by several other media outlets, including Billmoyers.com and Commondreams.org. A new book by two of our nation’s foremost poverty researchers, Kathryn Edin and H. Luke Shaefer, reveals the desperate circumstances that hundreds of thousands of children and...
TANF’s not all right
Why the wealthy always win
Inequalities in income, wealth, and opportunity have risen to virtually unprecedented levels. In Affluence and Influence, political scientist Martin Gilens demonstrates that in policy disagreements between the most well-off and everyone else, the wealthy consistently...