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2010

Op-ed by Wade Henderson and John Podesta on Politico: Heed King: Cut Poverty for All (1/15/10)

2009

CHN: Grim Census Data on Poverty Points to Growing Need Even Before Unemployment Skyrocketed this Year: Uninsured numbers reflect the importance of public health insurance programs (9/10/09)
CBPP: Statement of Robert Greenstein, Executive Director, on Census' 2008 Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Data (9/10/09)
NWLC: Women's Private Health Coverage, Incomes Decline While Poverty Increases, Census Data Show (9/10/09)
Op-ed by Deborah Weinstein on the Huffington Post: During Older Americans Month, Let's Focus on Keeping the Elderly Out of Poverty (5/1/09)

2008

HNR: Counting the Poor: House Subcommittee Holds Hearing About Getting a More Accurate Tally (7/21/08)
Half in Ten Campaign Urges Senate Appropriators to Pass a Stimulus Package that Alleviates Mounting Economic Hardship and Boosts the Economy (5/12/08)
Press Release: Senator John Edwards and Major Organizations Announce Multi-Year Campaign to Cut Poverty in Half (5/13/08)
The Social Welfare Spot: New Campaign to Cut Poverty in Half (5/11/08)
Daily Kos: John Edwards Leads Half in Ten, New Group to Fight Poverty (5/9/08)

2007

CWLA Testimony at the Hearing on the Economic and Societal Costs of Poverty, Before the House of Representatives, Ways and Means Committee (1/24/07)

2006

Washington Post: Poverty's Changing Faces (9/19/06)
New York Times: Real Wages Fail to Match a Rise in Productivity (8/28/06)
Jared Bernstein, EPI, in TomPaine.com: The Catch-Up Economy (8/22/06)
Bruce Katz, Metropolitan Policy Program, in The Chronicle of Higher Education: Concentrated Poverty in New Orleans and Other American Cities (8/4/08)

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