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Find the latest stories, research, and insights on policies, programs, and ideas shaping the national conversation on poverty and economic mobility.

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Child and Youth Well-Being
Cities
Education
Families
Health
2018
January 13, 2018

Spotlight Exclusive Interview: Jon Whiten, New Jersey Policy Perspective

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Asset Building
Child and Youth Well-Being
Cities
Digital Divide
Environment
2018
May 8, 2018

Exclusive: Members of US Partnership on Mobility from Poverty Reflect on Work

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Child and Youth Well-Being
Cities
Economic Opportunity
Families
Food
2018
June 22, 2018

States Leading The Way on Two-Generation Efforts to Fight Poverty

Commentaries
Job Quality
Women
2019
February 20, 2019

Perceptions of Poverty: A Conversation with Stephanie Land

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Asset Building
Child and Youth Well-Being
Cities
Digital Divide
Economic Opportunity
2019
February 13, 2019

Exclusive Interview with Raj Chetty

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Job Quality
Public Benefits
2018
November 15, 2018

Rubio Says Dignity of Work is Key to Anti-Poverty Policy

Florida Sen. Marco Rubio said Thursday that conservative anti-poverty efforts should focus on restoring the “dignity of work” and offering all Americans access to jobs “that connect the work that they do, not just to a paycheck, but to the dignity that comes with a productive life.”

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Aging
Asset Building
Public Benefits
2017
September 6, 2017

Are Retired Americans Better Off Than We Think?

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Cities
Families
Health
Housing
Job Quality
Illinois
2017
July 19, 2017

How Racial and Economic Segregation is Harming Chicago and Other Major Cities

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Economic Opportunity
Families
Job Quality
Pathways to Employment
Politics
2018
October 15, 2018

Is National Service the Key to Help “Forgotten Americans”?

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Child and Youth Well-Being
Cities
Economic Opportunity
Environment
Families
2018
November 7, 2018

Medicaid Expansion, Minimum Wage Increases Top Midterm results

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Economic Opportunity
Families
Pathways to Employment
2018
October 30, 2018

New Books Promote Work, Corporate Responsibility

Tax policies that reward work and regulatory reform that incentivizes best practices in corporate responsibility were two of the common themes raised in an American Enterprise Institute discussion Monday of three new books about work and how best to encourage and support it.

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Child and Youth Well-Being
Economic Opportunity
Education
Families
Housing
2018
October 19, 2018

Forum Participants Speak on Eradicating Poverty and Inequality

“Poverty has a way of robbing your hopes and dreams,” said Linda Cliatt-Wayman, former principal of Strawberry Mansion High School in Philadelphia, during A Wider Circle’s 2018 Forum on Ending Poverty.