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The High Cost of Being Poor: Reducing the Costs of Living for Working Families

Matt Fellowes
Matt Fellowes Former Brookings Expert, CEO and Founder - United Income

October 13, 2006

In this presentation at the National Community Tax Coalition Annual Conference, Matt Fellowes discusses emerging anti-poverty strategies to lower the costs of living. He highlights some of the ways leaders are lowering the costs of living, such as boosting consumer responsibility, curbing unscrupulous business practices, and bringing down higher costs of doing business with low-income families.