Press Release: AEI President Arthur Brooks to participate in panel discussion on poverty with President Barack Obama and Robert Putnam
A full transcript of the remarks can be found here.
AEI President Arthur Brooks to participate in panel discussion on poverty with President Barack Obama and Robert Putnam
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 8, 2015
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WASHINGTON, DC (May 8, 2015) – On Tuesday, May 12, AEI President Arthur Brooks will participate in a discussion with President Barack Obama and Robert Putnam, professor of public policy at the Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government at the Catholic-Evangelical Leadership Summit on Overcoming Poverty at Georgetown University. The discussion will be moderated by E.J. Dionne, Jr., Washington Post columnist and professor in Georgetown’s McCourt School of Public Policy.
The Catholic-Evangelical Leadership Summit on Overcoming Poverty will bring together Catholic, evangelical and other national leaders from across the political spectrum to discuss strategies for working together to overcome poverty and increase opportunity in the United States. The summit aims to make overcoming U.S. poverty a moral imperative and urgent national priority.
The discussion will be streamed live here at 11:00am ET. You can join the conversation online with #PovertySummit.
This discussion is open to pre-credentialed members of the media, but closed to the public.
Members of the media who would like to cover the discussion at Georgetown University should RSVP via the following link by 5:00 PM ET on Friday, May 8:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/webform/media-rsvp-president-obama-deliver-remarks-georgetown-university-tuesday-may-12-2015
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