So Rich, So Poor: Why it’s so Hard to End Poverty in America

Peter Edelman is a Professor of Law at Georgetown Law Center. During President Clinton’s first term he was Counselor to HHS Secretary Donna Shalala and then Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation. Earlier in his career he was a Legislative Assistant to Senator Robert F. Kennedy and Issues Director for Senator Edward Kennedy’s 1980 Presidential campaign. He will be talking about his book, So Rich, So Poor: Why It’s So Hard to End Poverty in America, published by The New Press in the spring of 2012. Edelman’s lecture is part of the 2013-14 Critical Issues in America The Great Society at Fifty: Democracy in America 1964/2014, and is co-sponsored by the Walter H. Capps Center for the Study of Ethics, Religion, and Public Life.
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