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TANF
How Can it Be Effective in a Recession?
Panelists:
Elizabeth Lower-Basch
Senior Policy Analyst
Center for Law and Social Policy
Elizabeth Lower-Basch is a Senior Policy Analyst with the workforce team at the Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP). Her areas of focus include welfare policy, job quality, and supports for low-income working families. From 1996 to 2006, Ms. Lower-Basch worked for the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. In this position, she was a lead welfare policy analyst, supporting legislative and regulatory processes. She also developed and managed studies of welfare “leavers” and of the implementation of sanction and full engagement policies. Ms. Lower-Basch received a Masters of Public Policy from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and a Bachelor of Arts degree in History from Yale University.
Heidi Shierholz
Economist
Economic Policy Institute
Heidi Shierholz joined the Economic Policy Institute as an Economist in 2007. Her areas of research include trends in employment, unemployment, and compensation, income and wealth inequality, the low-wage labor market, the minimum wage, and the gender wage gap. She previously worked as an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Toronto. Ms. Shierholz received a Ph.D. and an M.A. in Economics from the University of Michigan, an M.S. in Statistics from Iowa State University, and a B.A. in Mathematics from Grinnell College. She is the co-author of “The State of Working America 2008/2009.”
The Working for Change Forum is a monthly public policy roundtable held in the U.S. Capitol and sponsored by the Community Service Society in collaboration with the Coalition on Human Needs. The forum is held with the support of Rep. Charles B. Rangel (D-NY) and is a bipartisan discussion that is open to Congressional staff and policy advocates. For information on the forum and to be placed on our mailing list, contact CSS Director of Government Relations, Janeene Freeman, at jfreeman@cssny.org.
Program - July 24, 2009