Zachary Parolin presented his new book, Poverty in the Pandemic: Policy Lessons from COVID-19, followed by a discussion moderated by Jason DeParle of The New York Times. Wendy Edelberg, The Hamilton Project at Brookings, Bradley Hardy, Georgetown University, and Zachary Parolin, Bocconi University, discussed the challenges faced by low-income households during COVID-19, how the federal government achieved a record-low poverty rate in 2020 and again in 2021, and what lessons ought to be carried forward from those experiences.

Presented by Columbia University's Center on Poverty and Social Policy, at the Columbia School of Social Work, in association with the Hamilton Project at Brookings, and the Russell Sage Foundation.