Can We End Poverty? Join us on January 29 at Columbia University

Dear National Review Reader, Please find this special message from our sponsoring advertiser, The Cato Institute. This important support affords us the continuing means to provide you with National Review's distinctly conservative and always exceptional news and commentary. National Review, Inc. The Cato Institute invites you to an event. View this email in your browser The Cato Institute invites you to a Conference Thursday, January 29, 2015 at 8:30 AM Can We End Poverty? Columbia University Roone Arledge Auditorium Alfred Lerner Hall, 2920 Broadway New York City On January 8, 1964, President Lyndon Johnson delivered a State of the Union address to Congress in which he declared an "unconditional war on poverty in America." Johnson's goal was not only to "relieve the symptom of poverty, but to cure it and, above all, to prevent it." Since then, federal and state governments have spent more than $19 trillion fighting poverty. But what has really been accomplished with all of that funding This special half-day conference brings together a wide range of experts from across the political spectrum to discuss whether the War on Poverty succeeded in reducing poverty in the United States, what remains to be done, and whether private charitable efforts would be a better alternative to government welfare programs. 8:00 a.m. – 8:30 a.m. Registration 8:30 a.m. – 8:45 a.m. Welcome Address John Allison President Cato Institute 8:45 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. Keynote Address John McWhorter Center for American Studies Columbia University 9:30 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. Panel 1: 50 Years of the War on Poverty: Success, Failure, Incomplete? Moderator: Ron Haskins Co-Director, Center on Children and Families and Budgeting for National Priorities Project Brookings Institution Michael Tanner Senior Fellow Cato Institute Angela Glover Blackwell Founder and President PolicyLink Christopher Wimer Co-Director, Center of Poverty and Social Policy School of Social Work Columbia University Nicholas Eberstadt Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy American Enterprise Institute 10:45 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. Break 11:00 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Panel 2: Private Alternatives to Government Welfare Moderator: Jo Kwong Director of Economic Opportunity Programs Philanthropy Roundtable Harriet Karr-McDonald Executive Vice President Doe Fund Robert Woodson Founder and President Center for Neighborhood Enterprise David Beito Professor of American History University of Alabama Mauricio Lim Miller Founder, President and CEO Family Independence Initiative Cato Conference Thursday, January 29, 2015 at 8:30 a.m. Columbia University Roone Arledge Auditorium Alfred Lerner Hall, 2920 Broadway New York City To register to attend this event, click the button below and then submit the form on the page that opens, or email events@cato.org, fax (202) 371-0841, or call (202) 789-5229 by 8:30 a.m. on Wednesday, January 28, 2015. >   Share Tweet +1     1000 Massachusetts Ave, NW, Washington, DC 20001-5403 Phone (202) 842 0200   FOLLOW CATO ON   FACEBOOK   TWITTER   GOOGLE+   YOUTUBE   RSS   Unsubscribe / Manage Subscriptions bdunn@cato.org why did I get this email?   Manage your National Review subscriptions. We respect your right to privacy. View our policy. This email was sent by: National Review, Inc. 215 Lexington Avenue, 11th Floor New York, NY 10016