Russell Sage Foundation president Sheldon Danziger will deliver remarks at the Catholic-Evangelical Leadership Summit on Overcoming Poverty at Georgetown University on May 12, 2015. He will join Bradford Wilcox (University of Virginia) and moderator Lisa Hamilton (Annie E. Casey Foundation) on a panel titled “Poverty Research and Realities: Economic and Family Factors.” With Martha J. Bailey, Danziger is co-editor of the 2013 RSF book Legacies of the War on Poverty, which evaluates the successes of the anti-poverty programs established during President Lyndon Johnson’s administration, many of which still form the basis of the social safety net in the U.S. today.

Also scheduled to appear at the summit is President Barack Obama, who will discuss the topic of poverty and opportunity. Other speakers include Harvard public policy professor Robert Putnam, American Enterprise Institute president Arthur Brooks, and journalist E.J. Dionne. Conference participants will address key questions related to the moral, human and economic costs of poverty in the United States.

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