A panel of federal, community, and personally affected experts and advocates followed Furman’s remarks and discussed what’s at stake for middle-class and low-wage workers in the upcoming tax debate.

This event will mark the release of a new Half In Ten/CAP paper, “Feeding Opportunity: Ending Child Hunger Furthers the Goal of Cutting U.S. Poverty in Half Over the Next Decade.”

To combat the economic difficulties of the Great Recession, leaders across many different sectors of society have developed creative anti-poverty solutions that allow them to deploy the unique tools at their disposal. Listening to these voices from the field illuminates the successes of each sector and simultaneously suggests the need for greater federal leadership to continue make progress in the future.