Hearing on Establishing a Modern Poverty Measure

THURSDAY, JULY 17, 2008 - BEGINNING AT 10:00 AM B-318 RAYBURN HOUSE OFFICE BUILDING Witnesses Panel: Tentative Rebecca Blank, Ph.D., Robert V. Kerr Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution Sheldon Danziger, Ph.D., H.J. Meyer, Distinguished University Professor of Public Policy, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan, Anne Arbor, Michigan Douglas W. Nelson, President/Chief Executive Officer, Annie E. Casey Foundation, Baltimore, Maryland Mark Levitan, Ph.D., Director of Poverty Research, NYC Center for Economic Opportunity, New York, New York Bruce D. Meyer, Ph.D., McCormick Tribune Professor, Harris School of Public Policy Studies, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois