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Fair Pay is a Better Way | April 25, 2008

Rebuilding New Orleans | April 21, 2008

Neighborhood Realities: Media Focus on Poverty, Race, and Health | April 11, 2008

A Second Chance: Key Anti-Poverty Law Enacted to Fight Recidivism | April 10, 2008

The Dream Reborn: Remembering Martin Luther King Jr., Forty Years On | April 4, 2008

Bringing a Goal to Life: House Considers Anti-Poverty Funding | March 12, 2008

Low-Income Households Deserve Full Funding from LIHEAP | March 5, 2008

Interactive Map: The Latino Vote in 2008 | February 28, 2008

Our Housing Markets Must Have GARDNS and be SAFE | February 25, 2008

Still Lagging Behind: Latest Bush Housing Plan Too Little, Too Late | February 12, 2008

Addressing Foreclosures: A Great American Dream Neighborhood Stabilization Plan | January 31, 2008

Earned Income Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit 101 | January 31, 2008

House Embraces Poverty Goal | January 25, 2008

Economic Snapshot for December 2007 | December 11, 2007

Progressive Growth | November 28, 2007

Pursuing the Global Common Good | October 15, 2007

Next Steps for Federal Child Care Policy | September 21, 2007

Equity in Unemployment | September 14, 2007

Katrina Timeline: Failures of Reconstruction | September 14, 2007

Two Years Later, It’s Still Two Cities | August 31, 2007

Still Down in the Bayou | August 29, 2007

New Orleans by the Numbers: A City Struggles to Rebuild | August 29, 2007

Recommitting to the Fight Against Poverty | August 28, 2007

Interactive Map: Progress in the Parishes | August 27, 2007

Eye of a Housing Hurricane | August 27, 2007

How Much Is Too Little? | August 3, 2007

Defining Poverty | August 1, 2007

Investing in Our Children: The U.S. Can Learn From the U.K. | July 30, 2007

Prime Time for Housing | July 25, 2007

Economic Snapshot for July 2007 | July 11, 2007

Securing Decent Homes For All: The Ins and Outs of Housing Vouchers | July 11, 2007

Earth to Bernanke: Subprime Mortgage Crisis Could Spread to Other Homeowners | June 28, 2007

Check Here for Workers’ Rights | June 20, 2007

Suburban Cowboys | June 12, 2007

How to Cut Poverty in Half in Just Four Steps | May 8, 2007

Limited Benefits: Insurers Peddle “Limited Health Care” to America’s Working Poor | May 7, 2007

Public Opinion Snapshot: Americans Extend Helping Hand to the Poor | April 27, 2007

American Idol Joins the Fight Against Poverty | April 26, 2007

Reducing Poverty is the Right Goal | April 26, 2007

A Plan to Cut Poverty in Half | April 26, 2007

We Can Cut Poverty in Half | April 26, 2007

Taking on Poverty | April 25, 2007

From Poverty to Prosperity: A National Strategy to Cut Poverty in Half | April 25, 2007

The Poverty Epidemic in America, by the Numbers | April 24, 2007

Making Poverty History | April 22, 2007

Mortgages Matter: Homeowners at Risk Need Help | April 17, 2007

Are We Prepared for Another Katrina? | April 11, 2007

Building Economic Opportunity | March 30, 2007

A Precarious Outlook for Housing and the Broader Economy Due to Easy Lending Standards | March 27, 2007

Subprime Mortgage Foreclosures by the Numbers | March 26, 2007

Subprime Market: Isolated or a Tipping Point? | March 14, 2007

Economic Snapshot for February, 2007 | February 9, 2007

Katrina: Outstanding Need, Slow Process | January 29, 2007

Ending Poverty at Home | January 25, 2007

Testimony of Harry J. Holzer | January 24, 2007

The Economic Costs of Poverty | January 24, 2007

Goodbye, Horatio Alger | January 21, 2007

Predatory Mortgages Afflict Lower Income Americans | December 20, 2006

Bloomberg Tackles Poverty Differently: With Venture Capital-Driven Philanthropy | December 19, 2006

The End of the Great American Housing Boom | December 8, 2006

Hungry is Hungry | November 28, 2006

Poverty Still Plagues America: Center’s Poverty Task Force Begins Search for Solutions | November 17, 2006

Growing Rural Energy | October 23, 2006

Stepping Up to Fill the Minimum Wage Gap | October 11, 2006

Katrina Victims Are Still Waiting | September 11, 2006

An Ever Increasing Divide | September 1, 2006

New Census Data Show Deteriorating Income and Health Coverage from 2000 to 2005 | August 29, 2006

Welfare Overhaul | July 20, 2006

Opportunities Continue to Erode for White Men | July 7, 2006

The High(er) Stakes of the Minimum Wage Debate | June 20, 2006

Double Whammy | May 24, 2006

Employment Opportunities for College Graduates Less Abundant | May 5, 2006

Understanding Mobility in America | April 26, 2006

A Win-Win Bargain | April 12, 2006

Our Addiction to Oil is Fueling World Poverty | April 6, 2006

Public Opinion Watch | March 22, 2006

The Middle Class Squeeze at 25-Year High in 2005 | March 21, 2006

Reconnecting Disadvantaged Young Men: An Introduction | January 20, 2006

Left Behind: Less-Educated Young Black Men in the Economic Boom of the 1990s | January 20, 2006

Rebuilding Homes and Lives: Progressive Options for Housing Policy Post-Katrina | October 14, 2005

The Middle Class' Lost Future | August 26, 2005

Squeezed at the Pump: Higher Oil Prices Depress Wages, Consumption | August 19, 2005

Public Opinion Watch | June 8, 2005

Making the Labor Market Work for Hispanics | January 27, 2005

Building Financial Security for Latino Families | October 7, 2004

Armies of Compassion Want Programs, Not Photo-Ops | September 1, 2004

American Dream: Three Women, Ten Kids, and a Nation's Drive To End Welfare | September 1, 2004

Changing the Wind: Movements of Faith for Economic Justice | June 9, 2004

Transforming Public Housing in Chicago | January 21, 2004

The Two Americas | January 9, 2004

Where We Stand on Poverty & Mobility

CAP's Task Force on Poverty has set a goal cutting poverty in half in 10 years and outlined a series of recommendations for accomplishing this goal in "From Poverty to Prosperity: A National Strategy to Cut Poverty in Half." In the 21st Century the benefits of growth are not being broadly shared, and too many families are struggling to make ends meet or face experience large, unexpected drops in income. The solutions put forth by the task force aim to improve the economic well-being of millions of people living in or near poverty and enhance security for American families and workers in a way that both acknowledges the challenges of a rapidly changing world and broadens opportunities for advancement.