Paycheck Plus: A New Antipoverty Strategy for Single Adults in New York City
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Paycheck Plus: A New Antipoverty Strategy for Single Adults in New York City
New York City’s Center for Economic Opportunity and MDRC have launched a path-breaking demonstration project that is rigorously testing a new earnings supplement for low-income single adults — mostly men — with the goal of promoting work and reducing poverty. A direct response to the downward trend in employment, wages, and earnings among the least skilled, the project will simulate an expanded Earned Income Tax Credit for low-income single workers without dependent children.
On November 14, the Center on Children and Families at Brookings held a forum to introduce the experiment and analyze its possible effects. The event opened with an overview of the demonstration by Gordon Berlin, president of MDRC. A keynote address by Rep. Sander Levin (D-Mich.) followed. A panel of experts then discussed the project and its implications for national policy.
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Agenda
Introduction
Overview of Experiment
Gordon Berlin
President - MDRC
Keynote Address
Sander Levin
U.S. Congressman
Panel
Ron Haskins
Senior Fellow Emeritus - Economic Studies
Linda Gibbs
Deputy Mayor for Health & Human Services - City of New York
Doug Holtz-Eakin
Senior Policy Advisor, John McCain 2008
Harry J. Holzer
Nonresident Senior Fellow - Economic Studies
John LaFarge Professor of Public Policy, Georgetown University
Joseph Jones, Jr.
Founder, President, and CEO - Center for Urban Families
Vicki Turetsky
Commissioner, Office of Child Support Enforcement - Administration for Children and Families (HHS)
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