Neera Tanden is the President of the Center for American Progress and Counselor to the Center for American Progress Action Fund. Tanden has served in both the Obama and Clinton administrations, as well as presidential campaigns and think tanks. Most recently, Tanden served as the Chief Operating Officer for the Center, overseeing strategic planning, operations, and fundraising.  → Read More

As the entertainment industry grows ever more out-there in its portrayals of suffering, cruelty, and violence, the heart finds it better to harden, or be overwhelmed. Which is why I was so thrown off when, at a screening of the new HBO Documentary, Paycheck to Paycheck, I burst into tears. The focus of the film is Katrina Gilbert, a 30-year old Southerner and single mother with three young children. Her story is meant to put a face on the numbers, the 42 million women The Shriver Report counts as being on the ever-present brink of absolute poverty—and the 23 million young children who depend on them.  → Read More

After signing an Executive Order last month to increase the minimum wage to $10.10 for federal contract workers, President Obama continued his efforts to put pressure on Congress to raise the minimum wage for millions of Americans when he delivered remarks at Central Connecticut State University in New Britain, Connecticut last week. Labor Secretary Thomas Perez and four New England Governors—Lincoln Chaffee of Rhode Island, Dannel Malloy of Connecticut, Deval Patrick of Massachusetts, and Peter Shumlin of Vermont—joined the President. All are taking the lead and working with their state legislatures to raise the minimum wage at the state-level while Congress remains stonewalled.  → Read More

Washington, D.C. — Putting a face on the economic inequality of working women struggling in this country, Sabrina Jenkins—an Air Force veteran and working single mother from South Carolina—will be First Lady Michelle Obama’s invited guest to hear President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address tonight. Sabrina is featured in The Shriver Report: A Woman’s Nation Pushes Back from the Brink.  → Read More

On Wednesday, January 15th, The Atlantic presented “The Shriver Report LIVE.” Held in Washington, D.C., the full-day event brought the lastest Shriver Report: A Woman’s Nation Pushes Back from the Brink to life as thought leaders, activists and real women came together on stage to discuss important issues affecting women on the brink and the children who depend on them. You can watch the full event here.  → Read More

The most common shared story in our country today is the financial insecurity of American families. Today, more than one in three Americans—more than 100 million people—live in poverty or on the edge of it. Half of all Americans will spend at least a few months churning into and out of poverty during their lifetimes. This economic immobility and inequality is a systemic and pervasive problem that President Barack Obama recently described as “the defining challenge of our time.”  → Read More

In celebration of the release of the latest Shriver Report, A Woman’s Nation Pushes Back from the Brink in partnership with the Center for American Progress, on Wednesday, January 15th, The Atlantic will present “The Shriver Report LIVE”. And you can watch it all right here, on ShriverReport.org.  → Read More