A June 19 summit on America’s poverty crisis, organized by the Hamilton Project at Brookings, will bring together leading scholars, policymakers, practitioners, and business and labor leaders for a series of discussions on strategies for combating poverty. Former president Bill Clinton will deliver remarks on the opening day of the summit. Included among the featured speakers are several contributors to the Russell Sage Foundation’s Legacies of the War on Poverty, a 2013 release that analyzed the remarkable and enduring policy successes of the War on Poverty.

At the conference, Harry Holzer (Georgetown University) will participate in a roundtable discussion on new approaches to building skills within the U.S. labor force. Holzer’s chapter in Legacies of the War on Poverty examines changing trends in employment and training policy for low-income individuals since the War on Poverty was launched. Bridget Terry Long (Harvard Graduate School of Education), whose contribution to Legacies traces the evolution of higher education policies, will discuss strategies for addressing the academic barriers to higher education.

Other conference participants include RSF grantees Arindrajit Dube, Jared Bernstein, Ariel Kalil, and Amy Schwartz, co-author of a chapter on the ties between education reform and housing policy in the new RSF book Choosing Homes and Choosing Schools.

Click here to read the full agenda and register for the conference.