Center for American Progress (CAP)
Mark Greenberg, Senior Fellow, Executive Director of the Task Force on Poverty
The Center for American Progress is a think tank dedicated to improving the lives of Americans through ideas and action. CAP combines policy ideas with a modern communications platform to help shape the national debate. The following is from the April 25, 2007, report From Poverty to Prosperity: A National Strategy to Cut Poverty in Half. See http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2007/04/poverty_report.html. Thirty-seven million Americans live below the official poverty line. Millions more struggle each month to pay for basic necessities, or run out of savings when they lose their jobs or face health emergencies. Poverty imposes enormous costs on society. The lost potential…
