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PPI | Memo to the Next President | September 30, 2008
A Work Bonus for Men
By Katie Campbell
It is up to you, Mr. President, to
pick up where Bill Clinton left off and revive
our society's faltering efforts to enable poor
citizens to work their way out of poverty.
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PPI | Policy Report | June 12, 2008
The Kitchen-Table Covenant
By Mark Ribbing
To build a lasting governing majority, progressives must address the increasing fear among Americans for their "kitchen-table" needs: income security; health security; and security of access to educational and entrepreneurial opportunity. In this report, Mark Ribbing, director of policy development at the Progressive Policy Institute, discusses this "kitchen-table covenant" and how progressives can tackle it with sound policy and winning language.
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PPI | Policy Report | November 6, 2007
Making Work Pay
By Katie Campbell and Will Marshall
PPI offers recommendations to reform and expand the Earned Income Tax Credit by simplifying the tax code.
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PPI | Policy Report | October 16, 2007
Health Coverage for All
By Katie Donohue and David Kendall
With Washington stalled in partisan paralysis and interest-group deadlock, the impetus for universal health care coverage is passing to the states.
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DLC | Policy Report | May 15, 2006
Ending U.S. Child Hunger by 2012
By Joel Berg and Tom Freedman
Despite the overwhelmingly positive changes that the Great Society programs have made in the last 50 years, hunger remains a morally shameful presence in our country -- negatively impacting the health, education, and economic welfare of 13 million American families.
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DLC | New Dem Dispatch | January 5, 2006
The GOP's Sneaky Welfare Reform Maneuver
Unable to get welfare reform reauthorization through the normal procedures of Congress, and unwilling to compromise, the administration and Congressional Republicans decided to sneak their version into a budget bill by moving the package without giving Members time to read it.
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DLC | Blueprint Magazine | October 21, 2005
Back to Work
By Bruce Reed
If we're serious about one day ending poverty as we know it, this is the debate we must have: What are we willing to do to expand the circle of opportunity, and how much personal responsibility are we willing to ask in return?
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DLC | Blueprint Magazine | May 7, 2004
Poverty is Back
By Traci Gleason
David Shipler's "The Working Poor" is a valuable portrait of poverty in America, just as Michael Harrington's landmark book, "The Other America," was in 1962.
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PPI | Front & Center | April 6, 2004
Poverty and Public Opinion: 10 Lessons for Progressives
By Tom Freedman
The goal must be better living and independence for the poor, but the means must include all the weapons in society's arsenal, from self-help to nonprofit volunteerism to government aid.
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DLC | New Dem Daily | April 16, 2003
New York Rebels Against Work-Based Welfare Reform
In the same week that the Manhattan Institute released a major national study highlighting the positive impact of the 1996 welfare reform law on low-income families, the New York City Council overrode a veto by Mayor Michael Bloomberg and replaced the work focus with the "work later" approach that failed so dismally in the 1980s.
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DLC | New Dem Daily | February 12, 2003
Welfare Reform That Works
Throughout the welfare reform reauthorization debate, New Democrats should support alternatives to the Administration proposal that continue to make private sector work the object of welfare reform, but that also provide the necessary tools to actually make welfare reform work.
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DLC | Blueprint Magazine | February 11, 2003
Why People Need Affordable Cars
By Anne Kim
Easy credit means high rates for low-income buyers.
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution | Editorial | January 31, 2003
Keep Working Families' Refunds in Their Pockets
By Anne Kim and Alan Berube
Sensible policy changes will help ensure that families receive the full benefit of the EITC to which they are entitled.
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DLC | Blueprint Magazine | December 2, 2002
Ladders to Success
By Michael Bernick
Union and industry-based skills training can lift wages for the working poor.
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PPI | Policy Report | November 14, 2002
Taken for a Ride: Subprime Lenders, Automobility, and the Working Poor
By Anne Kim
Any comprehensive effort to make work pay must include a strategy for improving access to
transportation, including access to cars.
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PPI | Policy Report | September 20, 2002
Fixing Food Stamps
By Anne Kim
Food stamp reform is an opportunity that Congress should not miss to expand the social policy revolution begun in 1996.
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PPI | Front & Center | May 24, 2002
Senate New Dem Welfare Proposal Strikes Balance Between Resources and Results
By Anne Kim
More than any other proposal currently on the table, the Bayh-Carper-Graham bill will give states, recipients, and leavers the best chance of continuing the progress of welfare reform.
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PPI & The Brookings Institution | Policy Report | May 21, 2002
The Price of Paying Taxes
By Alan Berube, Anne Kim, Benjamin Forman, and Megan Burns
How tax preparation and refund loan fees erode the benefits of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC).
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DLC | New Dem Daily | May 3, 2002
Idea of the Week: Work First
Yesterday, a group of New Democrat Senators led by DLC Chairman Sen. Evan Bayh (D-IN), Sen. Tom Carper (D-DE), and Sen. Bob Graham (D-FL) outlined a legislative draft that should ensure that the "Work First" philosophy -- including significant new child care resources and efforts to put fathers of children on welfare to work -- is at the center of the debate this year over reauthorization of the 1996 welfare reform law.
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PPI | Backgrounder | March 19, 2002
Up the Ladder: The Role of Training & Education in Promoting Job Advancement for Welfare Recipients
By Anne Kim
Among the critical issues up for debate as Congress considers the reauthorization of the 1996 welfare reform law this year is how best to move recipients and former recipients not just from welfare to work, but into work that pays.
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