FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 25, 2007
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Contact: Tonya Strong-Charles
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John Carroll University presents:
Peter Edelman
Professor of Law
Georgetown University Law Center
“From Poverty to Prosperity: A National Strategy to Cut Poverty in Half”
Thursday, November 8, 2007
7:30 – 9 p.m.
Dolan Center for Science and Technology
Donahue Auditorium
This event is free to attend and open to the public

A lecture based on a report from the Center for American Progress Task Force on Poverty.

Peter Edelman is a Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center, where he teaches constitutional law and poverty law and has been on the faculty since 1982.
During President Clinton's first term he was Counselor to HHS Secretary Donna Shalala and then Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation. He was a Legislative Assistant to Senator Robert F. Kennedy and his book, Searching for America's Heart: RFK and the Renewal of Hope, is available from Georgetown University Press. Prior to working for RFK, he clerked for Supreme Court Justice Arthur J. Goldberg. Mr. Edelman has written extensively on poverty, constitutional law, and children and youth. His article in the Atlantic Monthly, entitled "The Worst Thing Bill Clinton has Done," received the Harry Chapin Media Award and he recently co-chaired a blue-ribbon Task Force on Poverty for the Center for American Progress.
                       
John Carroll University’s Poverty and Solidarity Program and its Program in Applied Ethics are sponsoring this lecture. The Campus Progress of the Center for American Progress is also a co-sponsor.

The Program in Applied Ethics
216.397.4980
Or
mponyik@jcu.edu

John Carroll University, located in Cleveland, Ohio, is a liberal arts university grounded in the Jesuit, Catholic tradition.  The university has some 3,100 plus undergraduates and just over 700 graduate students.  The U.S. News & World Report’s 2007 annual college guide ranks John Carroll University among the top 10 master’s-degree granting universities in the Midwest and first in average graduation rate. Originally founded as St. Ignatius College in 1886, the university was renamed in 1923 to honor America’s first Catholic bishop, John Carroll of Maryland.  John Carroll is one of 28 Jesuit colleges and universities located in the United States.

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