For Child Farmworkers, Lives of Poverty and Danger, By Zama Coursen-Neff, Deputy Director, Children’s Rights Division, Human Rights Watch

Posted July 26, 2010

Extending Tax Credits for Low-Income Families, By Elaine Maag, Research Associate, Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center and Urban Institute

Posted July 19, 2010

Tackling Child Poverty: What the U.S. Can Learn from Britain, By Jane Waldfogel, Professor of Social Work and Public Affairs, Columbia University

Posted July 12, 2010

Facing Eviction: Protecting Tenants Living in Foreclosed Properties, By Geraldine Doetzer, Housing Attorney, National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty

Posted July 6, 2010

Internships: Gateway to Opportunity, or Obstacle? By Ross Eisenbrey, Vice President and Kathryn Edwards, Research Assistant, Economic Policy Institute

Posted June 28, 2010

Low-Income Families on the Frontlines of the State Fiscal Crisis, By Nicholas Johnson, Director and Erica Williams, Research Analyst, State Fiscal Project, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

Posted June 21, 2010

Three Ways to Improve the Proposed Supplemental Poverty Measure, By Shawn Fremstad, Director of the Inclusive and Sustainable Economy Initiative, Center for Economic and Policy Research

Posted June 18, 2010

How the Affordable Care Act of 2010 Will Help Low and Moderate Income Families, By Sara R. Collins, Ph.D., Vice President of Affordable Health Insurance, The Commonwealth Fund

Posted June 14, 2010

Institutional Failures Damaging At Risk Youth in Greater New Orleans, By James Bernazzani, President, Youth Rescue Initiative

Posted June 7, 2010

You Think Income Poverty is Bad? Take a Look at Asset Poverty in the U.S., By Andrea Levere, President, Corporation for Enterprise Development

Posted June 2, 2010

Helping Disabled Americans Overcome Poverty, By Seth Weisbord, Executive Director, Economic Security for Disabled Americans

Posted June 1, 2010

The Intersection of Abuse and Neglect and Poverty, By Rutledge Q. Hutson, Director of Child Welfare Policy, Center for Law and Social Policy

Posted May 26, 2010

Social Security Is an Anti-Poverty Program, By Ben Veghte, Income Security Research Associate, and Virginia P. Reno, Vice President for Income Security, National Academy of Social Insurance (NASI)

Posted May 24, 2010

A Better Poverty Measure Is a Step Forward, But Economic Security is the True Goal, By Joan A. Kuriansky, Executive Director, and Shawn McMahon, Manager of Research and Innovation, Wider Opportunities for Women

Posted May 17, 2010

Our Nation Must Aim Higher to Address the Barriers Confronting Low-Income Women, By Shelley A. Davis, vice president of programs and advocacy, Chicago Foundation for Women, and Surina Khan, vice president of programs, the Women's Foundation of California

Posted May 10, 2010

Closing the Addiction Treatment Gap: A Priority for Health Care Reform, By Victor Capoccia, Open Society Institute, Dennis McCarty, Oregon Health & Science University, and Laura Schmidt, University of California, San Francisco

Posted May 3, 2010

On-the-Ground Lessons from a Landmark Anti-Poverty Initiative in New York City, By Barbara Dwyer Gunn, President and CEO, Seedco

Posted on April 28, 2010

The Effects of Race, Poverty & Equal Opportunity in America, By Eric J. Cooper, president, the National Urban Alliance for Effective Education

Posted April 26, 2010

Promise of a Job: Reducing Poverty and Enhancing Children’s Future Opportunity, By Anthony J. Mallon, Virginia Commonwealth University, and Guy V.G. Stevens, Former Senior Economist, Federal Reserve Board

Posted April 19, 2010

The Labor Market Impacts of the Great Recession of 2007-2009 on Workers Across Income Groups, By Andrew Sum, Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for Labor Market Studies, Northeastern University

Posted April 12, 2010

What We Know about School Integration, College Attendance, and the Reduction of Poverty, By Philip Tegeler, Executive Director, Poverty & Race Research Action Council, and Roslyn Arlin Mickelson and Martha Bottia, UNC Charlotte

Posted April 5, 2010

Protecting the Poor while Fighting Global Warming, By Chad Stone, Chief Economist, and Hannah Shaw, Research Assistant, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

Posted March 29, 2010

Social Innovation for Low-Income Communities: Turning Risk into Reward, By Stephen Goldsmith, Daniel Paul Professor of Government, Harvard Kennedy School

Posted March 22, 2010

The Decennial Census as a Key to Fighting Poverty, By William P. O’Hare, Senior Consultant, the Annie E. Casey Foundation

Posted March 16, 2010

Exclusive commentary: current and former elected officials discuss TANF

Posted March 10, 2010

 

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