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Required Reading: Decrease Poverty and Increase Opportunity

As the economy slows, working families struggle. Brookings scholars have laid out a number of proposals to help the next president combat poverty and expand prosperity for all Americans.

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Save to My PortfolioReversal of Fortune: A New Look at Concentrated Poverty in the 2000s

Elizabeth Kneebone and Alan Berube, The Brookings Institution, August 08, 2008

Save to My PortfolioWhy the United States Needs an Improved Measure of Poverty

Rebecca M. Blank, Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support of the House Committee on Ways and Means , July 17, 2008

Save to My PortfolioHow Can We Reduce the Rising Number of American Families Living in Poverty?

Rebecca M. Blank, Joint Economic Committee, September 25, 2008

Save to My PortfolioA Plan for Reducing Poverty

Ron Haskins, Charles Stewart Mott Foundation Project, August 31, 2008

Fulfilling the Commitment: Summary of Principles and Recommendations for Reforming Federal Student Aid

The Report from the Rethinking Student Aid Study Group, College Board, September 2008

Save to My PortfolioAttacking Poverty and Inequality: Reinvigorate the Fight for Greater Opportunity

Isabel V. Sawhill and Ron Haskins, Opportunity 08, February 28, 2007

Save to My PortfolioHigh Priority Poverty Reduction Strategies for the Next Decade

Rebecca M. Blank, Charles Stewart Mott Foundation Project, August 31, 2008

Save to My PortfolioLow-Income Families and Communities

Alan Berube, August 12, 2008

Improving the Safety Net for Single Mothers Who Face Serious Barriers to Work

Rebecca M. Blank, The Future of Children, Fall 2007

Economic Change and the Structure of Opportunity for Less-Skilled Workers

Rebecca M. Blank, Discussion Paper 1345-08, Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin

Save to My PortfolioUrban and Regional Policy and Its Effects: Vol. I

Margery Austin Turner, Howard Wial and Hal Wolman, June 01, 2008

Save to My PortfolioEmployment-Based Tax Credits for Low-Skilled Workers

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

Save to My PortfolioSuccess By Ten: Intervening Early, Often, and Effectively in the Education of Young Children

Isabel V. Sawhill and Jens Ludwig, Hamilton Project Discussion Paper, The Brookings Institution, February 01, 2007

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