# As part of a working group to combat poverty, Professor Jonathan Haidt worked to develop bipartisan policy recommendations

1 Faculty News February 2, 2016 ![The New York Times Logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/uat_027320.jpg?itok=W8xBr66g)>

Excerpt from [The New York Times](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/03/business/finding-common-political-ground-on-poverty.html) -- "Even as substantive legislation in Washington remained largely bogged down by bitter partisan mistrust, some of the leading thinkers on opposite sides of the ideological divide — experts on the right who have advised Republican policy makers alongside left-leaning scholars who have Democrats’ ear — came together to champion an increase in the minimum wage... Preserving the bipartisan balance — drafted over the course of 14 months, with New York University’s [Jonathan Haidt](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/jonathan-haidt) in the role of ideological mediator…"

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