Poverty Solutions That Work

March 26, 2010, 9:30am - 11:00am

As the workforce struggles to emerge from the recent recession, many Americans must rely on the antipoverty safety net for basic needs like food and shelter. Those struggling cannot afford to see our antipoverty dollars wasted on unnecessary operational costs, overly complex application processes, or on programs that simply do not work. Yet today's antipoverty safety net is not meeting this challenge.

A reform movement is now gathering steam. The Obama administration recently announced plans to create a new federal poverty measure. And states and municipalities, including New York City, are experimenting with programs that could grow into successful national efforts.

Please join the Center for American Progress's Doing What Works project and the Half in Ten campaign, a project of CAP Action, the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, and the Coalition on Human Needs, for a panel discussion on how innovative policymakers are already reshaping the antipoverty safety net, and what additional steps government must take to reform antipoverty programs.