Old Assumptions, New Realities: Ensuring Economic Security for Working Families in the 21st Century

Acknowledgments

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The chapters in Old Assumptions, New Realities were initially presented at a conference co-hosted by the West Coast Poverty Center and the Nancy Bell Evans Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy at the University of Washington in September 2008. The authors have revised the chapters to reflect comments from conference participants, two anonymous reviewers , and the editors, as well as the economic and policy changes that have taken place since the fall of 2008. The West Coast Poverty Center and the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services sponsored the conference, with additional support from the Russell Sage Foundation and the Seattle Foundation. We would like to acknowledge the support and sound advice of David Harrison, Michael Brown, and Caroline Maillard of the Seattle Foundation and Suzanne Nichols, director of publications, and Aixa Cintron-Velez, senior program officer of the Russell Sage Foundation. The West Coast Poverty Center’s program director Rachel Lodge, program coordinator Denise Novotny, and research assistants Bethanne Barnes and Shannon Harper provided invaluable logistical support for the conference and subsequent preparation of this volume. Ms. Harper also developed the figures in chapter 1. The views expressed in this book are those of the chapter authors and should not be construed as representing the official position or policy of any sponsoring institution, agency, or foundation. ...