2022 In The News

Welcome to EMPath News. Here you’ll find our latest news and recent press coverage.

December

  1. Dec 21, 2022

    From public housing to first-time home buyer

    Yawu Miller, Bay State Banner

  2. Dec 19, 2022

    Direct Cash Payments Work to Lift Families Out of Poverty

    Kathryn Carley, Public News Service

  3. Dec 17, 2022

    Boston Housing Authority residents achieving goals through new mentoring program

    Lance Reynolds, Boston Herald

  4. Dec 16, 2022

    Press Release: Mayor Michelle Wu, Former Mayor and EMPath CEO Kim Janey and Boston Housing Authority, Spotlight Innovative Program to Support BHA Residents in Climbing Economic Ladder

    Press Release

  5. Dec 14, 2022

    Here’s how you can give back in Greater Boston this holiday season

    Zipporah Osei, Boston.com

November

  1. Nov 25, 2022

    Biden’s plan to forgive student debt is on hold. That puts borrowers in limbo.

    Diti Kohli, Boston Globe

  2. Nov 7, 2022

    Op-ed: Fair Share amendment could address decades of systemic inequities

    Kim Janey, EMPath President & CEO, CommonWealth Magazine

October

  1. Oct 25, 2022

    Pressley y Warren visitaron Boston e instan a residentes a solicitar alivio de deuda estudiantil

    Jeaneth D. Santana, El Planeta

  2. Oct 25, 2022

    Ayanna Pressley and Elizabeth Warren road trip across the state to promote student debt cancellation

    Gladys Vargas, 7News Boston

  3. Oct 19, 2022

    Letters: For a moment there, we made inroads on child poverty

    Boston Globe

  4. Oct 11, 2022

    Op-ed: Direct cash assistance is a proven way to support struggling families

    Kim Janey, EMPath President & CEO, Boston Globe

  5. Oct 5, 2022

    At the crossroads of research and the real world

    Jeff Horwich, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, "For All" Magazine

September

  1. Sep 26, 2022

    EMPath Gears up for its 2022 Disrupting Poverty Conference

    Press Release

  2. Sep 21, 2022

    Letter: Progress on Child Poverty, but ‘Families Are Still Struggling’

    Kim Janey, EMPath President & CEO, The New York Times

  3. Sep 21, 2022

    Breaking down new data on child poverty

    Tiziana Dearing and Chris Citorik, WBUR's Radio Boston

  4. Sep 13, 2022

    US Poverty Rate Rises for Second Year While Incomes Are Little Changed

    Alexandre Tanzi and Augusta Saraiva, Bloomberg

  5. Sep 13, 2022

    STATEMENT: To combat poverty, we need a reimagining of how we support families

    Press Statement

  6. Sep 6, 2022

    ‘We are nowhere near done’: Biden’s debt relief plan leaves future students in the lurch

    Diti Kohli, Boston Globe

August

  1. Aug 25, 2022

    Boston Business Journal announces 40 Under 40 honorees for 2022

    Grant Welker, Boston Business Journal

  2. Aug 25, 2022

    Breaking The Cycle of Poverty

    NightSide With Dan Rea, WBZ NewsRadio

  3. Aug 24, 2022

    Women — particularly women of color — stand to benefit most from Biden’s student loan relief plan

    Nadra Nittle, The 19th

  4. Aug 5, 2022

    Reactions to the closure of the Orange and Green Lines

    Amanda Beland and Tiziana Dearing, WBUR's Radio Boston

July

  1. Jul 28, 2022

    Statement from the Lift Our Kids Coalition on Cash Assistance Increases in the FY23 Budget

    Press Statement (Lift Our Kids Coalition)

  2. Jul 21, 2022

    First-of-its-kind study compares ways to end generational poverty in San Antonio

    Iris Dimmick, San Antonio Report

  3. Jul 14, 2022

    San Antonio nonprofit commissions groundbreaking study on economic mobility

    Laura Garcia, San Antonio Express-News

  4. Jul 13, 2022

    MHM Commissions Unprecedented Study on Economic Mobility Strategies for San Antonio Communities

    Press Release (Methodist Health Ministries)

  5. Jul 12, 2022

    The Rappaport Foundation Pledges $1 Million to Support Transformative Economic Mobility Coaching Program for Boston Families

    Press Release

June

  1. Jun 30, 2022

    Opinion: The case for teaching women to fish

    Nathalie Laidler-Kylander, Benjamin Segal, and Mariana B. Vanin, Devex

  2. Jun 28, 2022

    STRIVE receives $4 million in grant funding from the U.S. Department of Labor to expand Future Leaders programming nationwide

    Press Release

  3. Jun 21, 2022

    Affordable rentals go only so far. We need more home ownership.

    Kim Janey, as told to Miles Howard, Boston Globe

  4. Jun 15, 2022

    Women’s Foundation of Boston Announces 2022 Grant Recipients

    Women’s Foundation of Boston (Press Release)

  5. Jun 13, 2022

    Retiring EMPath CEO Beth Babcock on her career as a 'changemaster'

    Meera Raman, Boston Business Journal

  6. Jun 8, 2022

    Former Acting Mayor of Boston Kim Janey on having leadership thrust upon you

    Tiziana Dearing, Radio Boston, WBUR

  7. Jun 6, 2022

    Biden's reported student loan plan is just a 'band aid' solution for communities of color, experts and borrowers say

    Yoonji Han, Insider

  8. Jun 2, 2022

    Janey takes helm at antipoverty agency

    Anna Lamb, Bay State Banner

May

  1. May 23, 2022

    Economic Mobility Pathways (EMPath) Welcomes Former Boston Mayor Kim Janey as New President & CEO!

    Hasson J. Rashid, Cambridge Community Television

  2. May 23, 2022

    Kim Janey to become head of non-profit that helped her when she was in high school

    Adam Gaffin, Universal Hub

  3. May 23, 2022

    Who's On the Move?

    State House News Service

  4. May 23, 2022

    EMPath Appoints Kim Janey as President and CEO

    MassNonprofit News

  5. May 23, 2022

    Former Boston Mayor Kim Janey takes over as president of nonprofit Economic Mobility Pathways

    Chris Van Buskirk, MassLive

  6. May 23, 2022

    Former Boston Mayor Janey named head of Boston nonprofit

    Grant Welker, Boston Business Journal

  7. May 23, 2022

    Kim Janey to lead nonprofit targeting poverty

    Emma Platoff, Boston Globe

February

  1. Feb 25, 2022

    Homeless youth and children are wildly undercounted, advocates say.

    Camila Beiner, NPR