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Symposium:Forgotten America: Fighting Poverty in Rural Communities” ruler
For Immediate Release
April 18, 2006

Contact:
Kara Tershel, (202) 662-9500

MEDIA ADVISORY

WHAT:

Symposium: "Forgotten America: Fighting Poverty in Rural Communities"

WHEN:

Wednesday, April 26, 2006, 4:00 - 6:00 p.m.

WHERE:

Georgetown University Law Center
McDonough Hall, Room 203
600 New Jersey Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C. 20001

MODERATOR:

Peter Edelman, Professor, Georgetown University Law Center

PANELISTS:  

Debra Bassett, Professor, Florida State University School of Law
“Distancing Rural Poverty”    

Sonya Salamon, Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Katherine MacTavish, Professor, Oregon State University
Michelle Eley, Professor, North Carolina A&T State University
“Housing Vulnerability among Rural Trailer Park Households”

Ezra Rosser, Professor, Loyola University New Orleans School of Law
“Rural Housing and Code Enforcement: Navigation between Values and Housing Types”

Kathleen Miller, Rural Policy Research Institute
“Spatial Variations in Factors Affecting Poverty”

Alan Berube, Brookings Institution
“Tax Credits as Social Policy in Rural America”

NOTE:

This event is sponsored by the Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy.

The panel will examine issues affecting the rural poor in America and why this segment of the population is largely overlooked.

Broadcast media who are interested in attending must contact Kara Tershel at kat5@law.georgetown.edu.