by GCPI | May 13, 2025 | Press Release
Georgetown Center on Poverty & Inequality (GCPI) welcomes a new Faculty Advisor and seven new staff and fellows who bring deep expertise across labor, tax, cash, housing, care, and digital equity. As economic insecurity grows and key protections come under threat, this expanded team will advance bold, evidence-based solutions that support working families and promote racial and gender equity. GCPI is growing to meet the moment—delivering actionable ideas to ensure people can meet their needs, care for their families, and live with dignity.
by GCPI | Jul 25, 2024 | Press Release
New report sheds light on racial equity implications of additional credential requirements for educators of color.
by GCPI | Jan 11, 2024 | Press Release
The Georgetown Center on Poverty and Inequality announced that Lelaine Bigelow—a changemaker and advocate for racial, gender, and economic justice—will serve as the next Executive Director.
by GCPI | Mar 21, 2023 | Press Release
For nearly ten years, the Center on Poverty & Inequality has housed two initiatives: the Initiative on Gender Justice & Opportunity and the Economic Security & Opportunity Initiative. Given the unique focus of each initiative, the respective efforts have restructured as standalone Centers, enabling future growth of their work
by GCPI | Mar 21, 2022 | Press Release
After nearly eight years with GCPI, including five as the founding leader of GCPI’s Economic Security and Opportunity Initiative, Indivar Dutta-Gupta (Indi) will step down to lead the Center for Law and Social Policy.
by GCPI | Jul 22, 2020 | Press Release
Emergency benefits are critical lifeline for families and are keeping economy afloat; Cutting benefits would be “attack on black and brown workers” Progressives: Extend the full $600 with no cuts, tie to unemployment rate so support continues until crisis ends ...
by GCPI | Apr 9, 2020 | Press Release
Washington, DC – Today, leaders of progressive research, policy, and advocacy groups released the following statement calling on Congress to move quickly to pass a robust legislative package that meets the scale of this crisis. The leaders laid out four specific...
by GCPI | Nov 13, 2019 | Press Release
The tax code in America was largely written by and for a small number of powerful and wealthy white men. These laws comprise a set of hidden rules that help shape our economy in ways that exacerbate or mitigate gender and racial equality. Three new reports by the National Women’s Law Center—in partnership with the Groundwork Collaborative, the Roosevelt Institute, and the Georgetown Center on Poverty and Inequality—investigate the many ways that our outmoded tax laws reflect the elite’s worldview, experiences, and biases at the expense of women, people of color, and low-income families and offer solutions to harness the tax code as a tool for equity.
by GCPI | Jul 30, 2019 | Press Release
The report introduces a whole-family, whole-community behavioral health approach: a vision of a society that adequately supports mental health, physical health, and social and financial well-being. The report offers leaders in the health care, criminal justice, child welfare, workforce, and other systems a united policy agenda to ultimately improve health and economic opportunity.
by GCPI | Mar 28, 2019 | Press Release
The Youth Opportunity Guarantee: A Framework for Success, highlights the urgent need to establish a Youth Opportunity Guarantee for education, training, and employment. GCPI’s proposal is the first of its kind in the United States, developed after years of extensive research and consultation with well over 100 experts and stakeholders.
