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The Center is a Joint Initiative of the Law Center and the Georgetown Public Policy Institute 
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The Georgetown Center on Poverty, Inequality, and Public Policy provides a forum in which researchers, policymakers, and others can explore and develop effective public policy responses to poverty and inequality in the United States.
Congratulations to Professor Harry Holzer who received the 2011 Policy Innovation Prize from the Hamilton Project at the Brookings Institution. The prize was awarded "for the best new proposal to create jobs and enhance productivity" based on his paper, Raising Job Quality Skills for American Workers: Creating More-Effective Education and Workforce Development Systems in the States.
The Center's Areas of Work: Workforce Development Policy: The Center seeks to promote workforce development policies and programs as an anti-poverty strategy. The Center's workforce development policy efforts focus on identifying promising state and federal policies, programs, and practices, and promoting the evalutation, continuation, and expansion of such efforts. The Center is also working to expand public discourse on career and technical education pathways that will prepare workers for middle-skill, well-paying jobs. Youth Policy: The Center's youth policy work seeks to develop and advance an enhanced federal commitment and role in efforts to improve outcomes for disadvantaged youth and to dramatically reduce the number of disconnected youth- young people who are not in school or work and not effectively transitioning to adulthood. The Center has convened a public policy series, Marginalized Girls: Creating Pathways to Opportunity, to explore ways in which public systems- the juvenile justice system, education system, public workforce system, public welfare system, and others- can better meet the needs of marginalized girls they serve or should be serving. This series will culminate in a set of policy recommendations targeted at improving public systems for marginalized girls, with a particular focus on girls who have been involved in the juvenile and criminal justice systems, girls who are young mothers, and girls who have been subject to sexual trafficking or commercial sexual exploitation. Low-Income Tax Policy: The Center's low-income tax policy work has concentrated on issues involved in efforts to expland the Earned Income Tax Credit to benefit workers without dependent children, along with a set of related issues concerning refundable credits and low-income tax policy. Cross-Cutting Poverty Policy Initiatives: The Center's cross-cutting poverty work has included efforts to develop and advance an improved definition of poverty for the United States; identification and development of approached to poverty policy that are most appropriate in the context of a severe recession, including strategies for addressing the needs of lower-income populations; identification of relevant strategies and approaches from cross-national experience to guide US policy; and technical assistance to state and local poverty reduction initiatives.
The Center's work is generously supported by the Open Society Foundations, Atlantic Philanthropies, and the Annie |
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