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With the economy booming and millions of Americans off the welfare rolls and into paying jobs since the last election, the next president will face the still-challenging issue of how low-paid workers can be helped to escape poverty.
Representatives of the Bush and Gore campaigns, along with a panel of experts, will discuss these issues, including new measures of poverty; faith-based approaches to solving social problems; raising the minimum wage; welfare reform; and tax policies, child care programs, and health care targeted to help the poor.
This forum is the third of eight election-year issues Brookings will examine in depth as part of its P2K, Priorities 2000, project, the purpose of which is to encourage a serious and informed discussion of the most pressing issues facing the next president.
Speakers include:
| George W. Bush Campaign JOHN C. WEICHER Director, Urban Policy Studies, Hudson Institute |
Al Gore Campaign ELAINE KAMARCK Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University |
Moderator:
BONNIE ERBE
Host of the PBS show To the Contrary
DOUGLAS J. BESHAROV
Resident Scholar, The American Enterprise Institute;
Professor, University of Maryland School of Public Affairs;
Editor of America’s Disconnected Youth: Toward a Preventive Strategy
WILLIAM T. DICKENS
Senior Fellow, Economic Studies, The Brookings Institution;
Co-author of Urban Problems and Community Development
RON HASKINS
Staff Director, Subcommittee on Human Resources, United States House of Representatives
ISABEL V. SAWHILL
Senior Fellow, Economic Studies, The Brookings Institution;
Co-author of Updating the Social Contract: Growth and Opportunity in the New Century
and Getting Ahead: Economic and Social Mobility in America
Agenda
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May 17
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Introduction
Elaine Kamarck Founding Director - Center for Effective Public Management, Senior Fellow - Governance Studies @EKamarckJCWJohn C. Weicher Director, Urban Policy Studies, Hudson Institute -
Moderator
BEBonnie Erbe Host of the PBS show <i>To the Contrary</i> -
Panelists
DJBDouglas J. Besharov Professor and Director, Welfare Reform Academy, University of Maryland
Isabel V. Sawhill Senior Fellow Emeritus - Economic Studies, Center for Economic Security and Opportunity @isawhill
William T. Dickens University Distinguished Professor of Economics & Social Policy - Northeastern University
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