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Compassionate
Welfare Reform: Empowering Charities and Private Citizens
Thursday,
December 12, 1996
Caucus Room, Cannon House Office Building, Room 345, Washington,
D.C.
10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
10:00 a.m. Opening Remarks:
Representative Joe Knollenberg
Representative Knollenberg sponsored the Common Sense Welfare Reform
Act.
10:15 a.m. Panel 1: What Works? Experiences of Charitable Organizations
Moderator:
Arianna Huffington, Chair Center for Effective Compassion
Ms. Huffington, well-known author, lecturer and broadcaster, is
a senior fellow at The Progress and Freedom Foundation
Panelists:
Andrew S. Bush, Research Fellow, Hudson Institute
Mr. Bush specializes in welfare policy and directs Hudson's "Reinventing
Welfare in Wisconsin" program.
Lou Nanni, Executive Director, Center for the Homeless
The Center, in South Bend, IN, has a continuum of care model that
leads from homelessness to homeownership.
Robert L. Woodson, Sr., President, National Center for Neighborhood
Enterprise
The National Center helps grassroots organizations and expand their
roles in revitalizing low-income communities.
The panel will include a welfare recipient with a personal success
story.
11:05 a.m. Panel 2: Issues and Implementation
Moderator:
John Fund, Wall Street Journal, Editorial Writer
Mr. Fund is an early proponent of the compassion tax credit. He
is a frequent lecturer and guest on national news programs.
Panelists:
Peter Ferrara, General Counsel and Chief Economist, Americans
for Tax Reform
Mr. Ferrara has sponkenitten widely on welfare reform and related
domestic policy issues.
John C. Goodman, President, Center for Policy Analysis
Dr. Goodman is a leading promoter of "taxpayer choice"
in the allocation of welfare dollars to private charities.
Robert Rector, Heritage Foundation
Mr. Rector is the nation's foremost authorities on welfare and family
issues.
David G. Tuerck, Beacon Hill Institute
Dr. Tuerck, Suffolk University Chairman and Professor of Economics,
directs the BHI compassion tax credit project.
12:30 p.m. Luncheon Served
12:45 p.m. Luncheon Speakers:
Senator Dan Coats and Congressman John Kasich
Senator Dan Coats and Representative John Kasich are sponsors of
The Project for American Renewal and of the Charity Tax Credit Act.
Co-sponsors: The Beacon Hill Institute and the David R. Macdonald
Foundation. Co-hosts are Sen. John Ashcroft, Sen. Dan Coats, Rep.
John Kasich, Rep. Joe Knollenberg, Rep. Jim Kolbe, Sen. Rick Santorum,
Rep. James M. Talent and Rep. J.C. Watts, Jr.
For more information, please call 617-573-8050
Please send
any questions or comments about this web page to Frank A. Conte
at fconte@beaconhill.org.
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