This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Child poverty is an issue that is often discussed both in the media and by policymakers. Unfortunately, the many faulty assumptions surrounding this issue lead to misdirected responses. Interested in…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In May 2016, Senator Mike Lee (R–UT) and Representative Jim Jordan (R–OH) introduced the Welfare Reform and Upward Mobility Act.[1] This legislation takes a number of significant steps towards reforming the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Every April, Match High School principal Hannah Larkin and the staff celebrate a few major college admission victories in the senior class. Much to their dismay, they also become bearers…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Four out of the last five years, the KIDS COUNT Data Book has ranked North Dakota first and Mississippi last in economic well-being. These rankings suggest contrasting landscapes of economic…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Koch brothers have a new target: poverty. Their group, Stand Together, has actually been around for a year and a half or so, but is planning to invest $21M…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Funders can maximize the potential of the growing field of financial coaching by investing in strategies to make the practice more inclusive and diverse; increase the use of web-based coaching…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Two decades ago, on August 22, 1996, President Bill Clinton signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act, popularly known as welfare reform, into law. At the time, liberals proclaimed…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. We are a network of 145 affiliated professors from 49 universities. Our mission is to reduce poverty by ensuring that policy is informed by scientific evidence. We do this through…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. We are living in extraordinary times. In our region, we are seeing unprecedented economic growth, innovation and technological advances. Despite all of this progress, striking inequities impact the health, housing…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In King County, Washington, the most recent point-in-time count showed nearly 1,500 young people (under the age of 25) currently experiencing homelessness. Of those 1,500 young people, 221 were under…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. TPW members recently travelled to India and here are the reflections from one member of that trip: Traveling to India opened a new window into a vibrant and transforming country.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The saying is all too familiar: Do the crime, do the time. But in America’s age of mass incarceration, millions of children are suffering the consequences of their parents’ sentences…