Poverty

Overcoming poverty in the richest nation on earth is a moral imperative and urgent national priority. Poverty has economic, political, cultural, and spiritual dimensions. These dialogues explore the human and moral costs of poverty and how people with differing political, ideological, and religious perspectives can work together to lift people out of poverty in the United States and internationally.

Events

Panelists for the March 25 Public Dialogue on the Dignity of Work in Riggs Library

Mar
25

2019

The Dignity of Work: Putting Workers at the Center of a Divided Economy

For more than 125 years, the dignity of work has been at the heart of Catholic social teaching. Now it needs to move to the center of national debate. Groundbreaking and cross-cutting studies from the Brookings Institution and American Enterprise Institute, Convergence Center for Policy Resolution…