American Prospect founder/editor Robert Kuttner and longtime New York Times columnist Bob Herbert will help assess the state of poverty in the United States today -- 50 years after the publication of Michael Harrington's "The Other America: Poverty in the United States."
Sponsored by the Poverty Alleviation Concentration at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management and the Louis D. Brandeis Legacy Fund for Social Justice.
To RSVP or for more information:
harringtonevent@brandeis.edu
REGISTER
Thursday, November 1, 2012
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| 12:00pm |
Lunch and Welcome
Janet Boguslaw, Program Director, MPP Poverty Alleviation Concentration, Associate Director of the Institute on Assets and Social Policy
David Duhalde-Wine, MPP/MBA '14
Lisa Lynch, Dean, Heller School for Social Policy and Management, and Maurice B. Hexter Professor of Social and Economic Policy
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| 12:15pm |
Jules Bernstein '57
Michael Harrington
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| 12:30pm |
Robert Kuttner, Adjunct Professor and Founder and Editor of The American Prospect
Luncheon Keynote
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| 1:30pm |
Breakout Sessions
- LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT
Lisa Lynch, Dean/Lisa Clauson, Director, UNITE HERE
- HOUSING AND FORECLOSURE
Hannah Thomas, Research Associate/Steve Meacham, City Life/Vida Urbana
- THE SAFETY NET AND BEYOND
Jeff Prottas, Professor/Roxanne Reddington-Wilde, ABCD/Delia Kimbrel, Research Associate (FSS)
- STUDENT DEBT AND COLLEGE COMPLETION
Cathy Burack, Senior Research Associate/Jackie Sewell, Youth Organizer, Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)
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| 2:45pm |
Panel Discussion
- RACIAL WEALTH GAP
Tom Shapiro, Pokross Professor of Law and Social Policy and Director of the Institute on Assets and Social Policy
- CHILDREN IN POVERTY
Dolores Acevedo-Garcia, Samuel F. and Rose B. Gingold Professor of Human Development and Social Policy and Director of the Institute for Child, Youth and Family Policy
- WOMEN AND POVERTY
Mariko Chang, Visiting Scholar
- UNDOCUMENTED YOUTH
Maricela Aguilar, MPP '14
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| 4:00pm |
Bob Herbert
Plenary Keynote (followed by Q&A)
Reception
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