Publications and Presentations
A New Lens on Policy
PowerPoint Presentation
January, 2008
by Margy Waller
Communicating About Poverty and Low-Wage Work: A New Agenda by Matthew C. Nisbet, a report for Inclusion's The Mobility Agenda
Executive Summary: Communicating About Poverty and Low-Wage Work: A New Agenda by Matthew C. Nisbet, a report for Inclusion's The Mobility Agenda
Unions and Upward Mobility for Low-Wage Workers by John Schmitt, Margy Waller, Shawn Fremstad, and Ben Zipperer
Social Inclusion for the United States
Heather Boushey, Natalie Bronosky, Shawn Fremstad, Rachel Gragg, and Margy Waller
April 2007
Understanding Low-Wage Work in the United States
Heather Boushey, Shawn Fremstad, Rachel Gragg, and Margy Waller
March 2007
Social Inclusion and Social Policy in the United States
Shawn Fremstad
October 2005
Additional Resources and Links
Communications and Public Opinion Research
You Can Get There From Here... an Occasional Paper Series from The Social Equity and Opportunity Forum of The College of Urban and Public Affairs, Portland State UniversityAchieving the American Dream: A Meta-Analysis of Public Opinion Concerning Poverty, Upward Mobility, and Related Issues by Meg Bostrom
Frameworks Institute, Framing Public Issues
Frameworks Institute, E-Zine on Child Poverty
Framing Katrina by George Lakoff and John Halpin
Contemporary Public Opinion: Poverty and Welfare by Erin O'Brien and Joe Soss
New Opportunities? Public Opinion on Poverty, Income Inequality and Public Policy by Tamara Draut (Demos)
Reports from the "How to Talk About Government" Project, Demos and the Framework Institute
Words that Work: Messaging for Economic Justice, The SPIN Project
Overview of the "Strategic Values Project," The Breakthough Institute
Beyond Red vs. Blue: Political Typologies, Pew Research Center for the People and the Press
How to Talk about Investing in Young Children, Voices for American Children/Frameworks Intitute
The Economy Project, Greenberg Research
How Soon We Forget, by Mark Lloyd (Center For American Progress)
Speaking of Values: The Framing of American Politics, by Shanto Iyengar
The Public Contemplates the Problem of Persistent Poverty, Georgia Peach State Poll
Books and Articles
Tuning Up Our Yin-Yang by Meizhu Lei
One Nation, Underprivileged: Why American Poverty Affects Us All by Mark Robert Rank
The Missing Middle: Working Families and the Future of Social Policy by Theda Skocpol
Sustainable Social Policy: Fighting Poverty without Poverty Programs by Theda Skocpol, American Prospect
Why Americans Hate Welfare: Race, Media, and the Politics of Antipoverty Policy, by Martin Gilens
Poverty Knowledge: Social Science, Social Policy, and the Poor in Twentieth-Century U.S. History, by Alice O'Connor
The "New Moralizers" by David Super (Columbia Law Review)
The Mobility Agenda Blog Posts
More on Clinton's "Poor" Plan 3/3/08
Hillary Clinton's Poor Plan 2/29/08
Responding to Paul Krugman and A New Lens for Policy 2/18/08
Edwards' Endorsement: It's Not the Poverty... 2/15/08
A Plan to Cut Poverty in Half 1/14/08
Too Many Pundits (for the Poor) are from Mars, Readers are from Venus 1/2/08
New York City developing social - inclusion - style measures 11/29/07
New Mobility Agenda Report: Public Opinion on Poverty Hasn't Changed in Twenty Years - What Now? 10/25/07
More Lessons from Matt Bai 10/2/07
San Antonio Newspaper Highlights Inclusion Proposals 10/1/07
Lessons from the Movies: In the Valley of Elah 9/24/07
Media Coverage of Poverty and Lessons from the Theater 9/8/07
Mayor Bloomberg on Measuring Poverty 8/29/07
Poverty Day Questions 8/28/07
What Would Obama Say...at a Forum on "Urban Working Poor"? 7/27/07
The Poverty of a Plan 6/10/07
More Lessons - From Above (the Border) 6/5/07
Oops - We're Doing It Again: Zogby Offers Lesson in Polling on Poverty 6/4/07
Inclusion - Philadelphia Style 5/21/07
More Lessons - Now from Ireland 4/30/07
More Lessons from the UK - A Note to CAP 4/27/07
More Lessons from the UK - On Poverty and Inequality 4/29/07
Lessons from the UK 4/20/07
And the Winner is... 4/15/07
Media Watch: Almost Everything That's Wrong with Progressive Communications in One Place 2/23/07
What's Wrong with "Poverty" 2/12/07
Press, Policy and Poverty 2/12/07
New Must-Read Media Analysis: Understanding Low Wage Work 12/31/06
NYT: Bloomberg's Plan Isn't Creative, It's Conservative 12/20/06
It's the Economy, Doug 8/20/06
USA Today: Perpetually Poor 7/18/06
