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"Millions in U.S. Climb Out of Poverty, at Long Last"

October 4, 2016
Lionel Foster

While reporting on the 3.5 million people who moved above the poverty line in 2015, the New York Times noted some of the numerous services people working to escape poverty might need:

Many of those who made it had outsize determination, but also benefited from a government or nonprofit program that provided training, financial counseling, job hunting skills, safe havens and other services.

The Partnership groups mobility-enhancing services like these and the types of organizations that provide them in the report “Building Blocks and Strategies for HelpingAmericans Move Out of Poverty.”

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