OpinionJuly 7, 2023
A Tight Labor Market Could Quell Poverty, but Eligibility Rules Threaten Those Gains
A tight labor market offers financial hope to many low-income workers but only if our government rethinks its hard limits for benefit programs
Stories by Elisabeth S. Jacobs
Elisabeth S. Jacobs is a senior fellow at the Center on Labor, Human Services and Population and deputy director of WorkRise at the Urban Institute. She and Katherine S. Newman are co-authors of Moving the Needle: What Tight Labor Markets Do for the Poor.