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Tax credits could reduce poverty even more—by including workers without children at home Expanding the EITC to include more childless workers, or creating a worker credit for all low-income workers, could be powerful antipoverty tools for many workers left behind in the current system.John Oliver takes on delinquent debt—and policymakers should, too Given that 77 million Americans have debt in collections, regulatory and policy changes need to seriously address this issue.How can we reduce poverty and increase opportunity? Only a third of people born near the bottom of the income ladder ever reach the middle rung. Throughout June, Urban Institute scholars will offer evidence-based ideas for reducing poverty and increasing opportunity.The US Partnership on Mobility from Poverty Experts in the Partnership gathered for the first time last month in Bedford-Stuyvesant to reframe how society thinks and talks about people experiencing poverty.Race-neutral policies may be well intentioned, but can they truly desegregate schools? More than 60 years after Brown v. Board of Education, structural racism maintains advantages for some and not for others, inside and outside of the public school system.Treasury’s program has fewer modified mortgages. Why and what’s next? The first decline in the history of Treasury's Home Affordable Modification Program suggests market improvements, but the uneven recovery has left many borrowers in distress.
