To help low-income American households, we have to close the "work gap" (Isabel V. Sawhill, Nathan Joo, Edward Rodrigue, Brookings)

When Franklin Roosevelt delivered his second inaugural address on January 20, 1936 he lamented the “one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished.” He challenged Americans to measure their collective progress not by “whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; [but rather] whether we provide enough for those who have too little.” In our new paper, One third of a nation: Strategies for helping working families, we ask a simple question: How are we doing?

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/social-mobility-memos/posts/2016/05/31-help-low-income-close-work-gap-sawhill