November 2007

From Poverty to Prosperity:
A National Strategy to Cut Poverty in Half

By Peter Edelman
Professor of Law,
Georgetown University Law Center

Thursday, November 8, 2007 at 7:30 p.m.
Donahue Auditorium, Dolan Science Center
John Carroll University
Free and Open to the Public

Peter Edelman, JD, is a Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center, where he teaches constitutional law and poverty law and has been on the faculty since 1982. During President Clinton's first term he was Counselor to HHS Secretary Donna Shalala and then Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation. He was a Legislative Assistant to Senator Robert F. Kennedy and his book, Searching for America's Heart: RFK and the Renewal of Hope, is available from Georgetown University Press. Prior to working for RFK, he clerked for Supreme Court Justice Arthur J. Goldberg. Mr. Edelman has written extensively on poverty, constitutional law, and children and youth. His article in the Atlantic Monthly, entitled "The Worst Thing Bill Clinton has Done," received the Harry Chapin Media Award and he recently co-chaired a blue-ribbon Task Force on Poverty for the Center for American Progress.

This lecture will be based on a report from the Center for American Progress Task Force on Poverty entitled "From Poverty to Prosperity: A National Strategy to Cut Poverty in Half."

Sponsored by:
Poverty and Solidarity Program at JCU,
Program in Applied Ethics at JCU, and by
Campus Progress of the Center for American Progress

For more information about the lecture
216-397-4980