Cradle to Kindergarten: A New Plan to Combat Inequality
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...The Obama Legacy: Place-Based Poverty
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.
Evicted: Housing, Poverty, and Policy
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...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.