Join Us for the Conversation! You are invited to attend the last part of the four-part virtual series, The Future of Economic Support: Cash, Credits, & Family Prosperity, sponsored by the Center on Poverty and Inequality at Georgetown Law. Please join us on June 16, 10 a.m. ET, for our final webinar in the series, featuring Congresswoman… Read More 6/16/26 Webinar: The Future of Economic Support, Cash, Credits & Family Prosperity

By David Riemer These are the components of the work-based policy package that I designed to greatly increase employment and earnings, dramatically reduce poverty, and expand the middle-class: A national Transitional Jobs program…like the New Deal’s Works Progress Administration (WPA) A much higher federal minimum wage…roughly $17.50/hour A restructured and bigger Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) Renewal… Read More A Work-Based Policy Package That Would Dramatically Reduce Poverty