The last in a four-part series on New York City’s turnaround on poverty.
Linda Gibbs and Robert Doar
Linda Gibbs is a principal at Bloomberg Associates for Social Services. She served as New York City Deputy Mayor of Health and Human Services from 2005-2013. Robert Doar is the Morgridge Fellow in Poverty Studies at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). He was a former Commissioner of the New York City Human Resources Administration, appointed by Mayor Michael Bloomberg on January 8, 2007. Both authors are Senior Fellows at Results for America, which is committed to shifting public resources toward evidence-based, results-driven solutions and has published the best-selling book, “Moneyball for Government.”
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How Failures Helped Lead to Success in New York’s War on Poverty
The third in a series on how New York City dropped its poverty rate to among the lowest in the country.
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How an “Infrastructure for Innovation” Can Defeat Poverty
Part II in a series about New York City’s successful fight to reduce poverty.
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New York City’s Turnaround on Poverty
Why poverty in New York – unlike in other major cities – is dropping.
