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The Yoshiyama Young Entrepreneurs Program: Spurring Business Ingenuity to Create Sustainable Solutions, By Barbara Dyer, President & CEO, The Hitachi Foundation

Investing in Young Entrepreneurs Addressing Poverty in America. Posted March 9, 2010

Hunger a Problem in Every Pocket of America, By Jim Weill, President, Food Research and Action Center

New Data Show Troubling Rates of Food Hardship. Posted March 8, 2010

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Posted March 3, 2010

Poor Measurement: To Address Poverty, We Should Add Assets to the Equation, By Reid Cramer, Director, Asset Building Program, the New America Foundation

Posted March 1, 2010

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Posted February 24, 2010

Members of State Task Forces Call for a New Poverty Measure, By John Kefalas, Member, Colorado House of Representatives

Now Is the Time for Federal Action. Posted February 23, 2010

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Posted February 17, 2010

Short-Term Labor Solutions Can Help Persistent Poverty among Minorities in the Long Term, By Christian Weller, Senior Fellow, and Luke Reidenbach, Research Assistant, Center for American Progress

Posted February 16th, 2010

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Posted February 10, 2010

Ending Poverty through Education, By Michelle Rhee, Chancellor, District of Columbia Public Schools

What Will it Take? Posted February 8th, 2010

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Posted February 3, 2010

Improving Access to Benefits, By Michelle Henry, Vice President for Asset Building, Seedco

A New Focus for Nonprofits and Government. Posted February 1st, 2010

Religion and Poverty: God and the Poor, By Michael Kinnamon, General Secretary, National Council of Churches

Posted January 25, 2010

The Indianapolis Private Industry Council’s Cash Voucher Program for Disadvantaged Youth, By Andrew Hahn, Professor, Brandeis University, Center for Youth and Communities, Heller School for Social Policy and Management

Cash Matters When Fighting Poverty. Posted January 18, 2010

Three Policy Priorities for Improving Success Beyond High School, By Hilary Pennington and Greg Shaw, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Posted January 11, 2010

Poverty and Education Reform, By Vicki E. Murray, Education Studies Associate Director, and Evelyn B. Stacey, Education Studies Policy Fellow, Pacific Research Institute

The Obama Administration and the DC Student Voucher Program. Posted January 5, 2010

2009: Poverty and the Great Recession, By Tom Freedman, former Senior Advisor to President Clinton, and John Bridgeland, former Director of the Domestic Policy Council for President George W. Bush

Posted December 15, 2009

December 7, 2009: Job Training in a Jobless Recovery, By Maureen Conway, Director, Workforce Strategies Initiative, the Aspen Institute, and Robert P. Giloth, Vice President, Annie E. Casey Foundation

Giving Workers the Right Skills

November 30, 2009: Community Colleges as a Pathway out of Poverty, By David Jason Fischer, Project Director, Workforce Development and Social Policy, Center for an Urban Future

Programs Show How to Increase Persistence and Help Students Graduate

November 23, 2009: A Response to Mathur and Hassett’s Commentary on Taxes, By Robert Cherry, Broeklundian Professor of Economics, Brooklyn College

Changes in Tax Policies to Aid Working Mothers

November 16, 2009: Poor Measurement: Building Economic Security and Reducing Poverty, By Annette Case, Consultant, Strategies to Eliminate Poverty

Measuring up to Our Goals

November 9, 2009: The Two-Generation Approach, By Frank Farrow, Director, Center for the Study of Social Policy

Helping Low-Income Families Survive the Recession

November 2, 2009: Child Prostitution in Impoverished Communities, By Kayrita M. Anderson, CEO of the Harold & Kayrita Anderson Family Foundation

An Overlooked Consequence of an Absence of Opportunity

October 26, 2009: Green Jobs Can Provide a Pathway Out of Poverty for Millions of Women, By Ruby Bright, Chris Grumm and Jennifer Lockwood-Shabat, founding members of the Women’s Economic Security Campaign

Proper Training and Support Are Critical

October 19, 2009: The Suburbanization of American Poverty, By Elizabeth Kneebone, Senior Research Analyst with the Metropolitan Policy Program at Brookings

The Recession Shows a Changing Landscape

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