Time with Dad: Helping Families with Visitation Arrangements
Child Support Enforcement could play a greater role in visitation, a key to fostering and maintaining the connection between fathers and their children.
Urging Family Policies to Focus on Fathers of Color
With Father’s Day right around the corner, policymakers should focus on implementing ideas that can help fathers of color and low-income fathers improve their and their families’ lives.
Denying Key Social Services to Immigrants on the Road to Citizenship Hurts Our Entire Nation
Curbing access to supports such as supplemental nutrition assistance and the earned income and child tax credits not only undermines economic security for millions of undocumented immigrants, but also denies potential economic gains to millions of Americans.
Addressing Urban Poverty in America Must Remain a Priority
Though a new study shows that suburban poverty is on the rise, it is important to remember that urban poverty still persists across the nation.
John Podesta on the U.N. Post-2015 Development Agenda
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In this video, Center for American Progress Chair John Podesta, who served on the U.N. High-Level Panel, discusses the panel's recommendations to eradicate poverty and transform world economies through sustainable development.
Twitter Town Hall on the Post-2015 Development Agenda
CAP Chair John Podesta held a Twitter town hall to take questions on the High-Level Panel on the Post-2015 Development Agenda on April 8, 2013.
The Facts on Social Security Disability Insurance and Supplemental Security Income for Workers with Disabilities
Issue Brief
Social Security Disability Insurance and Supplemental Security Income provide critical lifelines for the roughly 12 million people with disabilities in the United States.
3 Things You Need to Know About Sequestration and Cuts to Federal Public-Safety Programs
Victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and other crimes are being left in the dust as sequestration continues to take effect and Congress proposes more cuts to vital services.
3 Ways Sequestration Is Taking a Toll on Struggling Americans
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Congress recently sprang into action to save air travelers from flight delays brought on by sequestration. But for the millions of Americans who can’t afford to get on a plane, they have yet to repeal devastating cuts to important programs for struggling families, seniors, and children—leaving us all to wonder where our nation’s most vulnerable fit into Congress’s priorities.
Inequality and Growth at Home and Abroad
CAP Chair John Podesta delivers a speech at the Georgetown University Law Center.
Hunger, Obesity, and Nutrition: Observations from the Field in Pittsburgh
Recent research in Pittsburgh demonstrates how communities with disparate access to healthy and affordable foods for all are setting up their residents for poor health outcomes.