The Georgetown Center on Poverty and Inequality (GCPI) is proud to announce that Executive Director Lelaine Bigelow has been selected as a 2025 Aspen Ascend Fellow. The Aspen Ascend Fellowship brings ...

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and Medicaid provide support to nearly one-third of people in our country. The reconciliation bill passed by the House in May 2025 takes away $1 tr...

Programs that help families meet their basic needs are part of the fabric that keep communities stable. Massive cuts at the government agency that stands up for kids put that stability at risk. The Ad...

Georgetown Center on Poverty & Inequality (GCPI) welcomes a new Faculty Advisor and seven new staff and fellows who bring deep expertise across labor, tax, cash, housing, care, and digital equity. As ...

This AANHPI Heritage Month, we’re shining a light on the long history of AANHPI labor—often essential, too often invisible. From building railroads in the 1800s to driving rideshares today, AANHPI wor...

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and Medicaid are lifelines for millions, providing food and health coverage that stabilize families and strengthen communities. Cuts to these criti...

Medicaid is a lifeline for millions of women, covering essential healthcare needs like pregnancy care, elder support and long-term care. Proposed cuts to the program would not only harm women but also...

Work requirements in public benefits programs don’t help people work. They block access to food, health care, and housing assistance, making families and local economies worse off. This brief illustra...

By Lulit Shewan The Southern U.S. has historically had the largest number of Black people in the workforce in the country. This is a region where workplace organizing faces hostile laws and employer p...

An America Without Poverty Is Possible: GCPI’s Agenda for Economic Well-Being reflects our vision for a nation where people have the freedom and resources to care for themselves and their loved ones. ...

The Child Tax Credit (CTC) has been one of the most effective tools in reducing child poverty and supporting working families. The cash it provides to families improves economic stability and well-bei...

For generations, Black leaders have played a pivotal role in advancing economic justice. Their work—often met with resistance—has laid the groundwork for many of the anti-poverty programs that million...

We still find that states that have banned or are likely to ban abortion also overwhelmingly fail women on a range of key work and care policies. Yet, we also find that many states have taken key step...

This analysis builds on past evidence that work requirements impose administrative barriers and red tape that lead to coverage losses among both people who are working as well as people the policies p...

New CAP analysis shows many essential airport service workers earn less than $15 per hour. Here’s how policymakers can fix that.

Some landlords are hiking prices beyond the 10% the law allows. Some listings have increased thousands of dollars a month.

Workers misclassified as independent contractors lose out on critical protections, benefits, and labor rights including minimum wage, overtime pay, unemployment insurance, the right to form a union, a...

In its first week, the Trump administration executed a chaotic and aggressive policy blitz, issuing more than 300 executive actions. These actions signal a stark shift in federal priorities—one that t...

In its first week, the Trump administration executed a chaotic and aggressive policy blitz, issuing more than 300 executive actions. These actions signal a stark shift in federal priorities—one that t...

‘Set Up to Fail’: A Mississippi Mother on What the U.S., Trump and State and Federal Republicans Get Wrong About Poverty and Women

Early intervention services are often blocked by low funding and bureaucracy.

As climate change increasingly drives one devastating disaster after another, such as the recent hurricanes in the Southeast and wildfires in California,

Disaster recovery efforts often fail to meet the housing and health needs of disabled people, so Los Angeles city officials will need to make a conscious effort to support disabled residents displaced...

Martin Luther King advocated for policies to create jobs for all. The black jobs deficit shows us that there is still considerable work left to do.

This analysis builds on past evidence that work requirements impose administrative barriers and red tape that lead to coverage losses among both people who are working as well as people the policies p...

Medicaid is the backbone of many aspects of our health care system including paying for the majority of nursing home residents, covering 40 to 50 percent of children and births depending on where y…

The devastating effects of the fires in Los Angeles pose larger health risks to people experiencing unsheltered homelessness and could put more people at risk of homelessness.

Most scholarship on the subject focuses on conditions during childhood. But government support during adulthood plays the biggest role.

Postsecondary education is more than just a pathway to a degree—for many parents, it is a dream for their children’s future. Yet the soaring costs of higher education have made this dream increasingly...

Postsecondary education is more than just a pathway to a degree—for many parents, it is a dream for their children’s future. Yet the soaring costs of higher education have made this dream increasingly...

Origin stories are powerful in shaping both people and organizations. In this episode of Power Station, Lelaine Bigelow, the outstanding executive director of the Georgetown Center on Poverty and Ineq