Exclusive Commentary

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

What Will it Take? Posted February 8th, 2010

Exclusive commentary: current and former elected officials discuss TANF

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

October 13, 2009: “Criminalizing” Poverty, By Tracy Velázquez, Executive Director, Justice Policy Institute

How Public Policies Result in the Over-Incarceration of Low-Income Communities in America

October 5, 2009: Simplifying Tax Credits for Low-Income People, By Kevin A. Hassett, Senior Fellow and Director of Economic Policy Studies, and Aparna Mathur, Research Fellow, American Enterprise Institute

Reforming an Inefficient System

September 28, 2009: Civic Health in Hard Times, By Peter Levine, Director of CIRCLE, and John Bridgeland, Chair of the National Conference on Citizenship

Our Common Obligation to Give of Ourselves

September 21, 2009: New Poll Shows Americans Stepping up to Confront the Recession, By Kevin F. Walker, President and CEO, Northwest Area Foundation

They Expect the Same from Their Leaders

September 14, 2009: Investing in Human Capital, By Marlene B. Seltzer, president and CEO of Jobs for the Future

A Foundation for Lasting Prosperity

September 8, 2009: Religion and Poverty: Government’s Role in Supporting Faith-based Groups, By Stanley Carlson-Thies, founder and President of the Institutional Religious Freedom Alliance

An “All Hands on Deck” Attack on Social Problems

August 31, 2009: Bridging the Gap, By Peter S. Arno, Director of Doctoral Studies, Department of Health Policy and Management, School of Health Sciences and Practice, New York Medical College

Income Support Policies and Population Health

August 24, 2009: Owning Versus Renting, By Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research

Time for Some Clear Thinking

August 17, 2009: Religion and Poverty: Commonsense solutions to poverty, By Randall Brandt, former Senior Advisor at the U.S. Department of State and former Deputy Staff Director and Counsel for the Senate Republican Conference

Priorities We Can All Agree on

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