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Cradle to Kindergarten: A New Plan to Combat Inequality
Cradle to Kindergarten: A New Plan to Combat Inequality The Georgetown Center on Poverty and Inequality, Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP), and the University of Michigan's Poverty Solutions and School of Education, hosted a conversation about early-in-life...
Economic Inequality: Causes, Consequences and Responses
Book release On September 9, in partnership with the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, the center hosted a national poverty event to highlight the newly-released book, $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America. The event included a presentation by the...
Taking on Chronic Unemployment: Lessons Learned From 40 Years of Subsidized Employment Programs
Webinar On August 10, GCPI co-hosted a webinar entitled, “Taking on Chronic Unemployment: Lessons Learned from 40 Years of Subsidized Employment Programs,” with the National Employment Law Project (NELP) and Heartland Alliance. The webinar shared the findings and...
Strengthening Unemployment Protections in America: The Case for a Stronger Federal Role and Opportunities for State Action
Strengthening Unemployment ProtectionsThe center cosponsored an event, "Strengthening Unemployment Protections in America," with the Center for American Progress (CAP) and the National Employment Law Project (NELP). At the event, Representative Sandy Levin (D-MI) and...
Evicted: Housing, Poverty, and Policy
The center hosted a book signing and policy discussion, entitled “Evicted: Housing, Poverty, and Policy” with the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP). The event addressed issues highlighted in “Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City,” a new book by...
Opportunity, Responsibility, and Security: A Panel Discussion at the Ford Foundation
Watch Indivar Dutta-Gupta, Director of the center’s Project on Deep Poverty and Senior Fellow, speak about poverty and inequality at a convening of experts hosted by Spotlight in partnership with the Ford Foundation.
What Do the Numbers Tell Us? A Review of the Data on Economic Disparities
Panel In January, Indivar Dutta-Gupta, Director of the center’s Project on Deep Poverty, was a featured panelist in the Opening Session of the National Academy of Social Insurance’s annual conference. The panel, “What Do the Numbers Tell Us? A Review of the Data on...
Economic Inequality: Causes, Consequences and Responses
Symposium "If we are going to talk about economic inequality in our country, we have to talk about it all the way to the bottom … not just go down as far as the middle class," said Faculty Director Peter Edelman, speaking at a Georgetown Law symposium on “Economic...