LaDonna Pavetti

LaDonna Pavettiis vice president for family income support policy at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.

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  Inequality

  How the 1996 Welfare Reform Act Caused More Extreme Poverty in the US

  September 3, 2015

  | Indivar Dutta-Gupta, Peter Edelman and LaDonna Pavetti

  A new book out this week traces a disturbing trend in extreme poverty to the 1996 law, which has gradually but inexorably gutted the cash assistance safety net for families with children.