The Poverty Measure: Webcasts

View the Spotlight webcasts below to watch leading experts discuss prospects for implementing a new federal measure of poverty.

U.S. Congressman Jim McDermott (D-WA) discusses prospects for a new poverty measure as well as other legislative concerns confronting low-income populations and those living in poverty.

Mark Greenberg of Georgetown University and the Center for American Progress, Mark Levitan of the New York City Center for Economic Opportunity (CEO) and Indivar Dutta-Gupta of the U.S. House Committee on Ways and Means, Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support examine the need for a new federal poverty measure and how a new measure would affect low-income and poor families.