"More than 37 million Americans are counted as officially poor and more children grow up in poverty in the United States than in any other leading industrialized nation."
- Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa
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INTRODUCTION
Over the last few years, The U.S. Conference of Mayors (USCM) and
the Annie E. Casey Foundation
established the Partnership for Working Families to build national
attention on and support for the challenges facing working families in America
today.
The Partnership for Working Families is designed to support the
newly formed Mayors Task Force on Poverty, Work and Opportunity
which will significantly increase the visibility of issues related
to poverty and the needs of working families. Through the task force, USCM
has assumed a national leadership position in calling attention to the
problem and pressing for solutions, both at the local and the federal
level.
In addition, The Partnership for Working Families continues to
promote the Earned Income Tax
Credit (EITC) Campaign to mayors to further promote Annie E.
Casey’s Family Economic Success agenda.
Through the collaboration over the past few years the number of
cities that are promoting the Family Economic Success agenda has grown
significantly to recognize the need to assisting working families.
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