New Hope: Fulfilling America’s Promise to “Make Work Pay”

Research and Commentary

A Hand Up: A Strategy to Reward Work, Expand Opportunity, and Reduce Poverty

Jason Bordoff, Jason Furman and Paige Shevlin , Hamilton Project Strategy Paper, December 12, 2007

Research and Commentary

Better Workers for Better Jobs: Improving Worker Advancement in the Low-Wage Labor Market

Harry J. Holzer, Hamilton Project Discussion Paper, December 12, 2007

Research and Commentary

Employment-Based Tax Credits for Low-Skilled Workers

John Karl Scholz, Hamilton Project Discussion Paper, December 12, 2007

Past Event

Facilitating and Rewarding Work

Wednesday, December 12, 2007
9:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Washington, DC

Research and Commentary

Making Work Pay – Again

Ron Haskins, First Focus, September 15, 2008

Research and Commentary

Fighting Poverty through Incentives and Work Mandates for Young Men

Ron Haskins, Future of Children Policy Brief, September 01, 2007

Expert

Lisa A. Gennetian

Research and Commentary

Confronting Concentrated Poverty in Tough Economic Times

Alan Berube, Federal Reserve Board of Governors, December 03, 2008

Research and Commentary

The Enduring Challenge of Concentrated Poverty in America

Alan Berube and Elizabeth Kneebone, The Brookings Institution, October 24, 2008

Research and Commentary

Work and Marriage: The Way to End Poverty and Welfare

Isabel V. Sawhill and Ron Haskins, The Brookings Institution, September 01, 2003

Research and Commentary

Welfare Reform and Devolution: Looking Back and Forward

Mark Greenberg, The Brookings Institution, June 01, 2001

Past Event

Helping Disconnected and Hard-to-Employ Single Mothers

Wednesday, May 07, 2008
9:00 AM to 11:15 AM
Washington, DC

Research and Commentary

Repairing the Urban Economic Ladder: How Cities Get the Market to Work for the Poor

Matt Fellowes, Mayor Cicilline's Poverty, Work and Opportunity Task Force, March 06, 2007

Research and Commentary

The Geography of U.S. Poverty and its Implications

Alan Berube, House Committee on Ways and Means, February 13, 2007

Research and Commentary

Metropolitan Poverty in the United States

Alan Berube, Poverty and Place Workshop, Cambridge-MIT Institute, September 28, 2006

Research and Commentary

Worker Advancement in the Low-Wage Labor Market: The Importance of 'Good Jobs'

Fredrik Andersson, Harry J. Holzer and Julia I. Lane, The Brookings Institution, October 01, 2003

Past Event

Helping Low-Income Workers Weather the Recession

Thursday, December 06, 2001
10:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Washington, D.C.

Research and Commentary

Welfare and the Economy

Rebecca M. Blank, The Brookings Institution, September 02, 2001

Past Event

The Plight of Low-Wage Workers In a Global Economy

Tuesday, June 30, 1998
9:30 AM to 11:00 AM
Washington, DC

Expert

Gary Burtless