Alleviating Poverty

An Agenda for Shared Prosperity forum

Tuesday, October 2, 2007
9 - 11 AM
EPI, 1333 H Street, NW; East Tower, Suite 300, Washington, DC

Audio, video, slide shows, and a full written transcript from this event are now available.

As members of Congress struggle over expanding public health care for children, the Economic Policy Institute will sponsor a timely forum on Alleviating Poverty. With a quarter to a third of U.S. workers in low-wage jobs that typically offer few benefits, full-time workers struggle to meet their basic needs and those of their children.

Please join with leading experts on the subject for a discussion about the need for a comprehensive, integrated work support system designed to address the challenges faced by ever growing numbers of America's workers and their families.

Registration & Breakfast
9:00-9:30 AM

PANEL PRESENTATION & DISCUSSION
9:30-11:00 AM

Barbara Ehrenreich
Author of 18 books, including Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America, and the most recent, Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy.

Nancy Cauthen
Deputy Director of Columbia University's National Center for Children and Poverty. Improving Work Supports: Closing the financial gap for low-wage workers and their families.

Jared Bernstein
Director of the Living Standards program at the Economic Policy Institute. Work, Work Supports, and Safety Nets: Reducing the Burden of Low-Incomes in America.

Questions about this event? Contact events@epi.org.

Audio, video, slide shows, and a full written transcript from this event are now available.

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