by Peter Edelman | Jun 29, 2017 | Op-Ed
Their bellies were swollen and their fragile limbs covered with sores that would not heal. Clothed in rags, these children of the Mississippi Delta huddled in crumbling shacks with empty iceboxes, not a morsel of food to be found. It was a level of human suffering and despair that brought a New York Senator to tears. Walking, stunned, from one hovel to the next, Senator Robert F. Kennedy saw conditions that rivaled what he’d seen in third-world countries.
by Peter Edelman | Jun 2, 2017 | Event
Cradle to Kindergarten: A New Plan to Combat Inequality Congressional Briefing The Georgetown Center on Poverty and Inequality, Senate HELP, and the Senate Finance Minority, hosted a conversation about early-in-life disparities in the United States and ideas for...
by Peter Edelman | May 3, 2017 | Event
Cradle to Kindergarten: A New Plan to Combat Inequality The Georgetown Center on Poverty and Inequality, Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP), and the University of Michigan’s Poverty Solutions and School of Education, hosted a conversation about...
by Peter Edelman | Dec 14, 2016 | Blog
I have spent the last 50-plus years of my life fighting poverty. In 1967, when I worked for Senator Robert Kennedy as his legislative aide, the Senator and I traveled to Mississippi. We saw children starving—literally—with bloated bellies, open sores that wouldn’t heal. Our nation did the right thing then—we expanded the food stamp program—and that’s why you don’t see that kind of starvation here today.
But we had to fight for it. And now we are going to have to fight again.
by Peter Edelman | Jun 9, 2016 | Event
The center hosted a book signing and policy discussion, entitled “Evicted: Housing, Poverty, and Policy” with the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP). The event addressed issues highlighted in “Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City,” a new book by...
by Indi Dutta-Gupta, Kali Grant, Matthew Eckel and Peter Edelman | Apr 13, 2016 | Brief, Report
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.
by Peter Edelman | Dec 4, 2015 | Event, Symposium
Symposium “If we are going to talk about economic inequality in our country, we have to talk about it all the way to the bottom … not just go down as far as the middle class,” said Faculty Director Peter Edelman, speaking at a Georgetown Law symposium on...
by LaDonna Pavetti, Peter Edelman and Indi Dutta-Gupta | Sep 3, 2015 | Blog
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...
