Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity

Video from the conference, "Poverty and the Recession in North Carolina," now available!

Check it out by visiting our Events page.

Law journal publishes proceedings from 2007 Poverty Center conference

The Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy has published the transcript from the Poverty Center's 2007 conference, Wealth Inequality and the Eroding Middle Class.  Among the subjects discussed are the the impact of globalization and immigration on inequality in the U.S.; the way policies such as deregulation drive inequality; and what can be done to reduce inequality.

The outstanding collection of presentations includes comments by Joel Handler, Mary Beth Maxwell, Mark Rank, Louis Uchitelle, Fran Ansley, Jonathan Forman, Ana Avendano, Ron Bloom, Judith Scott, keynote speaker, Robert Kuttner and other noted scholars, policymakers, thinkers and doers. 

The proceedings are available in the Summer 2008 issue of the journal.  Copies of the transcript or the entire journal can be ordered from the Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy.  Both electronic and print versions are available.