Bloomberg: Social Security Isn’t Just for Old Folks Anymore
The Center for Global Policy Solutions found data supporting the importance of Social Security not only for seniors, but children as well. Bloomberg reports these findings in a recent article. About...
View ArticleBuzzflash.com: Social Security Plays a Significant Role in Reducing Childhood...
The article summarizes the main findings of our report on Social Security and children. The Center for Global Policy Solutions — a think tank focusing on vulnerable populations in the US — issued a...
View ArticleReuters — Surprise: Social Security benefits are for children too
This Reuters column covers our report in the context of the recent calls to expand Social Security benefits. Social Security Administration data shows that 3.2 million children received Social Security...
View ArticleMoney: Millions of American Kids Actually Depend on Social Security
This Money column focuses on Social Security’s anti-poverty effect, especially for households of color, which we documented in our report. The study underscores Social Security’s importance in fighting...
View ArticleFastCompany: A Growing Group Of Black Angel Investors Is Making Up For The...
One of the main roadblocks for African Americans in starting and growing a business is access to capital. This is the story of an African American entrepreneur who found alternatives to traditional...
View ArticleDr. Rockeymoore’s Statement on AARP’s Funding of the American Legislative...
Washington, D.C., August 1, 2016 — I am deeply disturbed to learn that AARP is a financial backer of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). AARP should be more sensitive to its members (and...
View ArticleDr. Rockeymoore’s Statement on AARP’s Decision to End Its Financial Support...
Washington, D.C., August 5, 2016 — I am so pleased to learn that AARP has decided to honor its members and their families by ending its financial backing of the American Legislative Exchange Council....
View ArticleForbes.com — Surprise: At 81, Social Security Is A Growing Anti-Poverty...
This story covering our recent report highlights Social Security’s unheralded role as protection against poverty for children: By the Center’s calculations, 25.5% of children who benefit from Social...
View ArticleThe Fiscal Times: How Children Got Lost in the Debate Over Social Security...
This story covers our recent report in the context of the debate on Social Security’s solvency: “For the last decade we have been having this debate about the future of Social Security, and in all of...
View ArticleLos Angeles Times: On Social Security’s 81st anniversary, a reminder that...
As Michael Hiltzik puts it, “it’s important to observe that the program doesn’t pit generations against each other so much as bind them together.” In 2014, 6.4 million children, or 8.7% of all...
View ArticleDriving Society Toward Inclusion
Since 2012, the Center for Global Policy Solutions has worked to lift up vulnerable groups and advocate for change under the guiding principle “making policy work for people and their environments.”...
View ArticleBlack Star News op-ed: We Need a Concrete Jobs Agenda to Reduce Chronic Black...
In this op-ed, Senior Research Fellow Algernon Austin explains that “the best anti-poverty program is a good job.” African Americans have been suffering from high levels of joblessness for two...
View ArticleDr. Rockeymoore: New Census Poverty Numbers Show Need for Basic Economic...
Statement from Dr. Maya Rockeymoore, President and CEO of Center for Global Policy Solutions, on U.S. Census Bureau 2015 Income, Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage and Supplemental Poverty Measure...
View ArticlePress Release for $1.5 Million Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Grant to Drive...
Contact: Simona Combi, 202-735-0519, simona@globalpolicysolutions.org John Keaten, 212-784-5701, jkeaten@groupgordon.com The Center for Global Policy Solutions Receives $1.5 Million Robert Wood Johnson...
View ArticleYouth Today op-ed: Advocating for Social Security Is Advocating for Youth
In this op-ed, CGPS President and CEO Maya Rockeymoore discusses how the debate on Social Security reform focuses on seniors and ignores children. The national focus on Social Security’s benefits for...
View ArticleBlack Enterprise — #BlackBizMatters: Spending $1.2 Trillion Black Buying...
Lack of funding is a major roadblock to creating and growing businesses for black entrepreneurs. This story focuses on a website and an app, Purchaseblack.com, that is trying to direct dollars to these...
View ArticleInc.com: These Black CEOs Couldn’t Get a Loan (Now They Run Some of the...
The story delves into why only 1.5 percent of Inc. 5000 companies are run by black Americans. History plays a large role, says Algernon Austin, senior research fellow at Washington, D.C.-based think...
View ArticleExperts of Color Letter In Support of CFPB Ruling on Predatory Lending
September 22, 2016 Director Richard Cordray Consumer Financial Protection Bureau 1700 G Street NW Washington, DC 20552 Docket No. CFPB-2016-0025 Comments on the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau...
View ArticlePress Release for the ADELPHI Project on Big Data
Contact: Simona Combi, 202-735-0519, simona@globalpolicysolutions.org Center for Global Policy Solutions Launches ADELPHI Strategy Collective to Harness Big Data for Equity-Centered Solutions to...
View ArticleCNNMoney.com: It’s lonely in the Black 1%
Tanzina Vega interviewed Maya Rockeymoore on why only why only 1.7% of the top 1% are black: The post CNNMoney.com: It’s lonely in the Black 1% appeared first on Center for Global Policy Solutions.
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