Anti-Poverty Proposals
Homeless Shelter Deduction Can Provide Much-Needed Help for Homeless Individuals and Families
Ty Jones, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, December 2011
Rebalancing Act: Updating U.S. Food and Farm Policies
Bread for the World Institute, November 2011
Facing Up to the Retirement Savings Deficit: From 401(k)s to Universal and Automatic Accounts
Michael Calabrese, New America Foundation, October 2011
Creating Pathways to Opportunity
The White House, October 2011
State Tax Codes as Poverty Fighting Tools
Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, September 2011
At the Forefront: Poverty Impact Projections
Jodie Levin-Esptein and Milla Sanes, Center for Law and Social Policy, August 2011
Breaking the Low-Pay, No-Pay Cycle: Final Evidence from the UK Employment Retention and Advancement (ERA) Demonstration
Richard Hendra, James A. Riccio, Richard Dorsett, David H. Greenberg, Genevieve Knight, Joan Phillips, Philip K. Robins, Sandra Vegeris, and Johanna Walter with Aaron Hill, Kathryn Ray and Jared Smith, MDRC, August 2011
Enterprise Programs: Freeing Entrepreneurs to Provide Essential Services for the Poor
National Center for Policy Analysis, August 2011
Section 8 Rental Assistance Programs are Not Growing as Share of HUD Budget
Douglas Rice, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, July 2011
Taking Asset Building and Earnings Incentives to Scale in HUD-Assisted Rental Housing
Jeffrey Lubell and Reid Cramer, Center for Housing Policy and the New America Foundation,
July 2011
Audio Conference with Rep. Jan Schakowsky: Remarks on the Effects of Budgets Cuts on Low-Income Families
May 2011
Energy Assistance Programs Benefitted 48 Percent More Households During Recession: Proposed Cuts Threaten Vulnerable Families
Jessica A. Bean, Carsey Institute at the University of New Hampshire, April 2011
America’s Rental Housing: Meeting Challenges, Building on Opportunities
Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University, April 2011
A Unique Opportunity to Improve School Meals Applications
Zoë Neuberger and Abby Lane, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, April 2011
Reforming Tax Expenditures Can Reduce Deficits While Making the Tax Code More Efficient and Equitable
Chuck Marr and Brian Highsmith, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, April 2011
Tax Simplification: Clarifying Work, Child, and Education Incentives Elaine Maag, Urban Institute, March 2011
Doing What Works Annual Report 2011 Center for American Progress, February 2011
The Case for State Food Action Plans: Laboratories of Food Democracy Joel Berg and Joy Moses, Center for American Progress, February 2011
Social Impact Bonds: A Promising New Financing Model to Accelerate Social Innovation and Improve Government Performance Jeffrey B. Liebman, Center for American Progress, February 2011
Gaining Perspective: Lessons Learned From One Foundation’s Exploratory Decade Northwest Area Foundation, January 2011
The Saver’s Bonus: A Proposal to Support Savings by Working Families at Tax Time
Reid Cramer, The Asset Building Program, New America Foundation, December 2010
Building a Pathway to Dignity and Work Illinois Commission on the Elimination of Poverty, December 2010
Strategies to Combat Childhood Hunger in Four U.S. Cities The United States Conference of Mayors and Sodexo, Inc., November 2010
Arkansas Legislative Taskforce on Reducing Poverty and Promoting Economic Opportunity: Final Report 2010 Arkansas Legislative Taskforce on Reducing Poverty and Promoting Economic Opportunity,
November 2010
Obama’s Tax Hikes on High-Income Earners Will Hurt the Poor—and Everyone Else Guinevere Nell and Karen A. Campbell, The Heritage Foundation, November 2010
TANF Benefits are Low and Have Not Kept Pace with Inflation: Benefits Are Not Enough to Meet Families’ Basic Needs Liz Schott and Ife Finch, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, October 2010
TANF Benefits are Low and Have Not Kept Pace with Inflation: Benefits Are Not Enough to Meet Families’ Basic Needs Liz Schott and Ife Finch, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, October 2010
The Potential Impact of Expiring Tax Cuts on Low-Income Taxpayers Nicholas Kasprak, Tax Foundation, October 2010
Feel No Pain: Why a Deficit in Times of High Unemployment is Not a Burden Dean Baker, Center for Economic and Policy Research, September 2010
What Every American Needs to Know About Government-Entitlement Reform Andrew G. Biggs, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, September 2010
Reducing Student Poverty in the Classroom: School-Based Antipoverty Strategies the Federal Government Can Learn From and Act On Saba Bireda and Joy Moses, Center for American Progress, September 2010
Credit Where Credit is (Over) Due: Four State Tax Policies Could Lessen the Effect that State Tax Systems Have in Exacerbating Poverty Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP), September 2010
Down Payment on Economic Recovery: Why Temporary Payments to Social Security and Supplemental Security Income Recipients Are Effective Stimulus Josh Bivens and Kathryn Ann Edwards, Economic Policy Institute, September 2010
Money Well Spent: How Positive Social Investments Will Reduce Incarceration Rates, Improve Public Safety, and Promote the Well-Being of Communities Justice Policy Institute, September 2010
Promising Antipoverty Strategies for Families Maria Cancian, Daniel R. Meyer, Deborah Reed, Fast Focus, Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Number 6, August 2010
Putting Public Debt in Context—Historical and International Comparisons Josh Bivens and Anna Turner, Economic Policy Institute, August 2010
The Sanction Epidemic in the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program Timothy Casey, Legal Momentum, August 2010
Going, Going, Almost Gone: Job-Creating TANF Emergency Fund Sent to Expire LaDonna Pavetti, Ph.D., Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, July 2010
Letting High-Income Tax Cuts Expire is Proper Response to Nation’s Short- and Long-Term Challenges Chuck Marr, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, July 2010
Staying Home: The Rights of Renters Living in Foreclosed Properties (pdf)
National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty, June 2010
Feeding Opportunity: Ending Child Hunger Furthers the Goal of Cutting U.S. Poverty in Half over the Next Decade Joel Berg, Center for American Progress and the Half in Ten Campaign, May 2010
The Benefits and Costs of the Section 8 Housing Subsidy Program: A Framework and First-Year Estimates (pdf)
Deven Carlson, Robert Haveman, Thomas Kaplan and Barbara Wolfe, Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin, May 2010
Ending Family Homelessness in Massachusetts: A New Approach for the Emergency Assistance (EA) Program (pdf)
Dennis P. Culhane and Thomas Byrne, The Paul and Phyllis Fireman Charitable Foundation, May 2010
KIDS COUNT 2010 Special Report: Early Warning! Why Reading by the End of Third Grade Matters (pdf)
Leila Fiester and Ralph Smith, The Annie E. Casey Foundation, May 2010
Poverty on the Rise in the District: The Impact of Unemployment in 2009 and 2010 DC Fiscal Policy Institute, March 2010
Strengthening State Economic Development Systems: A Framework for Change John Quinterno, Working Poor Families Project, March 2010
A New Era of Partnerships: Report of Recommendations to the President President’s Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, March 2010
Failure to Extend Improvements in Child Tax Credit Would Harm Millions of Low-Income Working Families Arloc Sherman, Avi Feller and Chuck Marr, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, February 2010
Improving Access to Public Benefits: Helping Eligible Individuals and Families Get the Income Supports They Need Shelley Waters-Booth, The Ford Foundation; Open Society Institute; Annie E. Casey Foundation, February 2010
Poverty Elimination Strategies That Work Kimberly Drew, Nadeen Israel and Tim Klein, Heartland Alliance for Human Needs & Human Rights, January 2010
Ending Childhood Hunger by 2015: The Essential Strategies for Achieving the President's Goal (pdf)
The Food Research and Action Center, July 2009
The "Great Recession" and Redistribution: Federal Antipoverty Policies (pdf)
Gary Burtless, Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin-Madison, December 2009
Roadmap to End Childhood Hunger in America by 2015 (pdf)
National Anti-Hunger Organizations, December 2009
An Expanded and Refundable Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit Would Help Make Child Care More Affordable for Millions of Families (pdf)
National Women's Law Center, November 2009
Battered by the Storm: How the Safety Net Is Failing Americans and How to Fix It Deepak Bhargava, Timothy Casey, John Cavanagh, Karen Dolan, Peter Edelman, Barbara Ehrenreich, Sarita Gupta, Dedrick Muhammad, Diana Pearce, Steve Savner and Kevin Shih, Institute for Policy Studies, December 2009
Workforce Development as an Antipoverty Strategy: What do we know? What should we do? Harry J. Holzer, Georgetown University and Institute for Research on Poverty, Focus, Fall 2009
A Just and Sustainable Recovery Bread for the World Institute, November 2009
National Service and Youth Unemployment: Strategies for Job Creation Amid Economic Recovery Melissa Boteach, Joy Moses and Shirley Sagawa, Center for American Progress, November 2009
Considerations in Efforts to Restructure Work-Based Credits Steve Holt and Elaine Maag , Tax Policy Center, November 2009
Homeless Cost Study United Way of Greater Los Angeles, October 2009
Poverty and Opportunity: State Government Task Forces Center for Law and Social Policy, September 2009
Poverty: A New Agenda Tested by Hard Times The American Prospect, September 2009
Vibrant Neighborhoods, Successful Schools: What the Federal Government Can Do to Foster Both Margery Austin Turner and Alan Berube, The Urban Institute, July 2009
Reshaping the Advocacy Direction on Poverty Reduction: Bridging Individual and Community Strategies (pdf)
Charles Bruner, Child and Family Policy Center and the Northwest Area Foundation, May 2009
Hunger Doesn’t Take a Vacation: Summer Nutrition Status Report (pdf)
Rachel Cooper, Crystal FitzSimons, Katherine Moos and Ben Hecht, Food Research and Action Center, July 2009
Safety Net Effective at Fighting Poverty But Has Weakened for the Very Poorest Arloc Sherman, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, July 2009
Measuring the "Faith Factor" in Social Service Program Outcome (pdf)
Jennifer Noyes, Institute for Research on Poverty, June 2009
Job Training That Works: Findings from the Sectoral Employment Impact Study Sheila Maguire, Joshua Freely, Carol Clymer and Maureen Conway, Public/Private Ventures, May 2009
Analysis of Child Poverty and Economic Opportunity in Delaware: Finding and Initial Recommendations (pdf)
Child Poverty Task Force, State of Delaware, April 2009
Center for Economic Opportunity: Early Achievements and Lessons Learned (pdf)
New York City Center for Economic Opportunity, April 2009
Changing Poverty and Changing Antipoverty Policies Maria Cancian and Sheldon Danziger, Institute for Research on Poverty, April 2009
Making the Link: Reducing Poverty at the State and Local Level Grantmakers for Children, Youth and Families, April 2009
Paid Leave in the States: A Critical Support for Low-wage Workers and Their Families Sarah Fass, National Center for Children in Poverty, March 2009
Bringing Home the Green Recovery: A User's Guide to the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Shawn Fremstad, Radhika Fox and Jason Walsh Green For All and PolicyLink, March 2009
Principles for State Implementation of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (pdf)
Working Poor Families Project, March 2009
Extending "Climate Rebates" to Include Middle-Income Consumers Chad Stone and Hannah Shaw, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, February 2009
Policy Proposals to Reduce Poverty Poverty Forum, February 2009
Resources for Living Wage Worship Services and Community Events Let Justice Roll Campaign, January 2009
Target Practice: Lessons for Poverty Reduction Jodie Levin-Epstein and Webb Lyons, Center for Law and Social Policy, January 2009
Strategies to Build Economic Security and Reduce Poverty: A Tool Kit for StatesAnnette Case, January 2009
Recession Could Cause Large Increases in Poverty and Push Millions into Deep PovertySharon Parrott, Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, November 2008
Measures and Methods: Four Tenets for Rural Economic Development in the New Economy (pdf)
Anita Brown-Graham and William Lambe, The Carsey Institute, University of New Hampshire , October 2008
The Impact of State Income Taxes on Low-Income Families in 2007
Jason Levitis and Andrew Nicholas, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, October 2008
Bridging the Gap: Reshaping Poverty Policy in America (PDF)Neighborhood Funders Group, Special Conference Issue, Fall 2008
Staying Afloat in Tough Times: What States Are and Aren’t Doing to Promote Family Economic SecuritySarah Fass, Jodie Briggs and Nancy K. CauthenNational Center for Children in Poverty, August 2008
A Platform for Progress: Building a Better Future for Women and Their FamiliesNational Women’s Law Center , August 2008
State Strategies to Reduce Child and Family PovertySusan Golonka and Linda Hoffman,National Governor’s Association Center for Best Practices, June 2008
Metro Raise: Boosting the Earned Income Tax Credit to Help Metropolitan Workers and FamiliesAlan Berube, David Park, and Elizabeth Kneebone,The Brookings Institution, June, 2008
A Hand Up: A Strategy to Reward Work, Expand Opportunity, and Reduce PovertyJason E. Bordoff, Jason Furman, and Paige L. Shevlin, The Hamilton Project, December 2007
Four Years of Welfare Reform: A Progress ReportLisa Oliphant, Cato Institute, August 2000
Welfare Reform That Works: Explaining the Welfare Caseload Decline, 1996-2000Michael New, Cato Institute, May 2002
From Poverty to Prosperity: A National Strategy to Cut Poverty in HalfPoverty Task Force, Center for American Progress, April 2007
The Center for American Progress recommends 12 poverty reduction strategies that they believe will cut poverty in half.
Repairing the Economic Ladder: A Transformative Investment Strategy to Reduce Poverty and Expand America's Middle ClassU.S. Conference of Mayors,January 2007
Going for Broke: How Big-City Mayors are Resurrecting the National Anti-Poverty AgendaReid Cramer, New America Foundation, March 6, 2007, American Prospect Online
Commentary from Reid Cramer on the US Conference of Mayors recommendations for effective poverty reduction.
A Citizen-Based Social ContractMichael Lind, New America Foundation, July 2007
Calls for a new social contract that would guarantee all Americans with basic security and the goods necessary to live and thrive in the 21st Century.
Child Poverty and Welfare Reform: Stay the CourseJune E. O’Neill and Sanders Korenman, Manhattan Institute, December 2004
Report from the Manhattan Institute claims that welfare reform has played a significant role in the reduction of child poverty among black and Hispanic households headed by single mothers.
The Future of Children: The Next Generation of Antipoverty PoliciesRon Haskins and Isabel Sawhill, eds., Fall 2007
Includes research and analysis from leading researchers on a variety of poverty reduction strategies emphasizing the alleviation of child poverty.
Bloomberg Tackles PovertyReid Cramer, New American Foundation, June/July 2007
Many cities are using innovative poverty reduction strategies. Reid Cramer examines cash conditional transfers as a poverty reduction strategy in New York City.
Ending Poverty in America: Using Carrots and SticksThe American Prospect, May 2007
Ron Haskins, Senior Fellow and Co-Director, Center on Children and Families Isabel V. Sawhill, Senior Fellow and Co-Director, Center on Children and Families.
This article, published in the American Prospect, claims that poverty reduction strategies should include measures that attempt to change personal behavior as well as strengthen government support.
Working Harder for Working FamiliesBread for the World Institute, January 2008
Work and Marriage: The Way to End Poverty and WelfareRon Haskins and Isabel V. Sawhill, Brookings Institution, September 2003
Emphasizes poverty reduction strategies that encourage full time work and promote marriage.
Rewarding the Work of Individuals A Counterintuitive Approach to ReducingPoverty and Strengthening FamiliesGordon L. Berlin, MDRC, September 2007
This report, included in The Future of Children semiannual report, focuses on poverty reduction strategies that reward work among low-income individuals, with specific focus on expanding the EITC to all workers, those with or without children.
The Behavioral Aspects of PovertyThe Public Interest, Fall 2003
Isabel V. Sawhill, Vice President and Director, Economic Studies
This article, originally published in The Public Interest, argues that public policies around poverty reduction should be aimed at helping poor individuals adopt “mainstream behaviors” such as work and marriage.
Declining Employment among Young Black Less-Educated Men: The Role of Incarceration and Child SupportHarry Holzer, Paul Offner, Elaine Sorensen, April 2004
Poverty disproportionately affects the African-American population in the United States. This report from the Urban Institute describes declining employment among young black less-educated men and concludes that child support policies and post-incarceration effects are driving these men out of the traditional labor market.
We encourage you to submit other research on poverty andopportunity. To submit your suggestion, e-mail
Jodie Levin-Epstein