The annual Drug & Alcohol Testing Industry Association (DATIA) conference, held in 2012 in San Antonio, Texas, looks like any other industry gathering. The 600 or so attendees [...]
Apr 9 2013
Wince of the Week, February 24- March 2, 2013. Our EHRP team winced when we read this excerpted from a new Center on Budget and Policy Priorities Report,”TANF Emerging from t[...]
Mar 1 2013
Quote of the Day, February 22, 2013, is Part III of our 3 part series excerpted from Ten Things You Should Know About #TheRealTANF by Greg Kaufmann in The Nation: 7) The “work part[...]
Feb 22 2013
Quote of the Day, February 21, 2013, is part 2 of our 3 part series of Quotes of the Day, each excerpted from Ten Things You Should Know About #TheRealTANF by Greg Kaufmann in The [...]
Feb 21 2013
Quote of the Day, February 20, 2013, excerpted from Ten Things You Should Know About #TheRealTANF by Greg Kaufmann in The Nation: 1) There is no cash entitlement program for people[...]
Feb 20 2013
Quote of the Day, February 11th, 2013, excerpted from “This Week in Poverty: Revealing the Real TANF,” by Greg Kaufmann in The Nation: Dr. LaDonna Pavetti, vice preside[...]
Feb 11 2013
Quote of the Day, December 13, 2012: from our latest EHRP piece, in Mother Jones: Gabe Thompson’s “Can You Survive on $2 a Day?” Welfare reform had placed strict[...]
Dec 13 2012
Wince of the Week, September 16-22, 2012: The EHRP Team winced when we read this, an interview by The Nation’s Greg Kaufmann of Tim Casey, senior staff attorney at Legal Mome[...]
Sep 21 2012
I recently had the opportunity to talk with Georgetown Law professor, Peter Edelman, to discuss his decades of anti-poverty work and his new book, So Rich So Poor: Why It’s So Hard[...]
May 29 2012
Tagged: low-income, Peter Edelman, poor, poverty, poverty in america, safetynet, TANF, wage theft, wealth
Quote of The Day, May 23, 2012 Poverty is very good in poems … in maxims and in sermons, but it is very bad in practical life. –Henry Ward Beecher, Proverbs from Plymou[...]
May 23 2012