AUDIO CONFERENCE

Is there real punch in your policy proposal to reduce poverty? In Connecticut, poverty would decline by 35 percent and in Minnesota by more than 27 percent if policies promoted by the states’ poverty councils were pursued. Would it help your work if you had a similar projection?

Join CLASP-managed Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity for an audio conference that will feature a state advocate describing how the number has mattered, a state legislator  telling why he wants a poverty impact projection attached to bills, and researchers to discuss how states can tailor analysis to their own policies and programs designed to decrease poverty.

After you register, you can send in questions to audioconferences@clasp.org. You will receive resource materials and call-in instructions in September.

Speakers:     
    

John Kefalas, Representative in the Colorado Legislature
Brian Rusche, Executive Director of Minnesota Joint Religious Legislative Coalition
Linda Giannarelli, Senior Research Associate at the Urban Institute