EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT

DATE: 7 p.m., Sept. 28, 2004

EVENT: “American Dream: Three Women, Ten Kids, and a Nation’s
Drive to End Welfare.” Jason DeParle, a New York Times reporter, will speak
about issues in his book on the results of the controversial 1996 Welfare Reform
Act, an unprecedented change in social policy. Former president Bill Clinton
vowed to “end welfare as we know it” in 1992. Four years later, Congress
translated a catchy slogan into a law that sent nine million women and children
streaming from the welfare rolls. How did welfare mothers respond? Drawing on
more than a decade of reporting, DeParle traces the stories of three welfare
recipients back six generations and adds politicians, case workers, reformers
and rogues to an exploration of America’s struggle with poverty and dependency.
U-M professors Sandra Danziger and Alford Young, Jr. will comment on DeParle’s
book; then the audience will be able to ask questions. Professor Sheldon Danziger,
National Poverty Center co-director, will moderate the event. The event is free
and open to the public. PLACE : Rackham Amphitheater, 915 E. Washington Street.

Campus map: http://www.umich.edu/~newsinfo/ccamp.html

SPONSOR: National Poverty Center (NPC) at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public
Policy.

WEB LINKS: For more information about the NPC see http://www.npc.umich.edu/