So Are The Poor Always Going To Be With Us?
Empowering Ourselves to Overcome Poverty
A panel discussion that will explore how anti-poverty programs both help and hurt low-income Americans as they struggle to make it into the shrinking middle class.
Friday, Nov. 6 – Noon to 1:15 p.m.
Walb Student Union, Room 114-116
Panelists:
• Jane Avery, Executive Director, Community Harvest Food Bank
• Dr. Patrick Ashton, Associate Professor of Sociology, IPFW
• Joan Uebelhoer, Activist and former director, Indiana Family and Social Services Administration, Northeast District
Free and open to the IPFW community and the public.
Refreshments will be served.
Organized and sponsored by the Center for Women and Returning Adults, a division of the Office of Diversity and Multicultural Affairs, and the Indiana-Purdue Student Government Association.
This program is the second in a series of seminars and discussions called “Empowering Ourselves: Surviving and thriving in a Rapidly Changing World.” Watch for upcoming seminars and conferences on mass media and class issues in America.
