Webinar Materials: Taking on Chronic Unemployment: Lessons Learned from 40 Years of Subsidized Employment Programs

Heartland Alliance’s National Initiatives on Poverty & Economic Opportunity joined the Georgetown Center on Poverty and Inequality (GCPI) and the National Employment Law Project for the webinar, Taking on Chronic Unemployment: Lessons Learned from 40 Years of Subsidized Employment Programs. The presenters shared the findings and recommendations from GCPI’s recent report, Lessons Learned from 40 Years of Subsidized Employment Programs, and explained how subsidized employment can be a cost-effective way to decrease persistent unemployment and to combat long-term poverty. The webinar was held on August 10, 2016.