Georgetown Public Policy Institute Hosts Conversation on Remembering Men in Welfare Reform

10/1/2002

From: Tom Cassels, 917-439-3735, or casselt@georgetown.edu

News Advisory:

WHAT: The 9th Annual GPPI Conversation

The discussion, titled "Sharing PRWORA: Remembering Males in Welfare Reform," will focus on the lack of focus on males in current welfare reform efforts. A panel discussion will focus on whether current policies regarding child support payments, educational and training programs, wage subsidies, and TANF eligibility may have negative impacts on the labor market experiences, and marriageability, of low-income men in the United States. Discussants will also comment on policy interventions necessary to help at-risk populations affected by welfare reform (i.e., the Bush administration's marriage proposal, promoting fatherhood initiatives, extending the EITC to non-custodial fathers, etc.).

WHO: -- Harry Holzer, professor of public policy, Georgetown University; senior fellow, Northwestern/University of Chicago Joint Center on Poverty Research -- Wade Horn, current Assistant Secretary for Children and Families, Department of Health and Human Services -- Ronald Mincy, professor of social work, Columbia University -- Elaine Sorenson, senior research associate, The Urban Institute -- Kent Weaver, university professor, Georgetown University; co-director, Brookings Institution's Welfare Reform & Beyond Project

WHEN: Friday Oct. 4 9-10:45 a.m. (complimentary continental breakfast beginning at 8:30 a.m.)

WHERE: National Press Club Main Ballroom 529 14th Street, N.W. Washington, D.C.

SPONSOR: Georgetown's Public Policy Institute Student Conversation Committee

For more information, please contact Tom Cassels at casselt@georgetown.edu