Tackling Child Poverty in the Wake of COVID-19

On June 18, 2020 from 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. EDT, this webinar hosted by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will review research on current programs and policies. The discussion is in conjunction with the project entitled Building an Agenda to Reduce the Number of Children in Poverty by Half in 10 Years.

The featured speakers include: Jeff Madrick, director of the Bernard L. Schwartz Rediscovering Government Initiative; Greg Duncan, distinguished professor of education, University of California, Irvine; Christine James-Brown, president and chief executive officer, Child Welfare League of America; Dolores Acevedo-Garcia, Gingold professor of human development and social policy and director of the Institute for Child, Youth and Family Policy at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University; and Cara Baldari, vice president of family economics, First Focus on Children.