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 Katherine S. Newman
Katherine S. Newman is the provost of the University of California system and the Chancellor's Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Public Policy at U.C. Berkeley. She and Elisabeth S. Jacobs are co-authors of Moving the Needle: What Tight Labor Markets Do for the Poor.