Despite criticism over Occupy Madison, Soglin says he has sound anti-poverty plan

So how is Soglin doing on his plan to combat poverty? On the whole, he gets pretty good marks from Satya Rhodes-Conway, who has more expertise in the area than just her five years as a City Council member. In her day job, she is a policy analyst for the Center on Wisconsin Strategy, a nonprofit, progressive think tank based at UW-Madison. At the center, she is in charge of the Mayors Innovation Project, a “learning network” of more than 100 mayors nationwide aimed at improving civic policy. Rhodes-Conway says she is aware that Soglin has been thinking about a number of things that fit into a “big-picture” view of poverty, something that is hard to do while actually doing the nitty-gritty work of getting programs off the ground.