Jason DeParle, New York Times senior writer and author of American Dream: Three Women, Ten Kids, and a Nation’s Drive to End Welfare; David Ellwood, Dean of Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government; and Ron Haskins, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institute, examined our nation’s policies regarding the poor. William Julius Wilson of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government moderated.
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