The <a target="_blank" href="http://www.american.edu/spa/pti/index.cfm" target="_blank">Political Theory Institute</a> at American University School of Public Affairs hosts a Janus Forum conversation between two noted experts on poverty and inequality.&nbsp; William Darity is the Samuel DuBois Cook Professor of Public Policy, African and African-American Studies and the Director of the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity at Duke University and has written widely on structural causes of inequality. Isabel Sawhill is a Senior Fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. and has written on family structure and poverty, including most recently&nbsp;Generation Unbound: Drifting Into Sex and Parenthood Without Marriage&nbsp;(2014).

The <a href="http://www.american.edu/spa/pti/index.cfm" target="_blank">Political Theory Institute</a> at American University School of Public Affairs hosts a Janus Forum conversation between two noted experts on poverty and inequality.&nbsp; William Darity is the Samuel DuBois Cook Professor of Public Policy, African and African-American Studies and the Director of the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity at Duke University and has written widely on structural causes of inequality. Isabel Sawhill is a Senior Fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. and has written on family structure and poverty, including most recently&nbsp;Generation Unbound: Drifting Into Sex and Parenthood Without Marriage&nbsp;(2014).

Duke University

Director of the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity / Professor of Economics

The Brookings Institution is a nonprofit public policy organization based in Washington, DC. Our mission is to conduct in-depth research that leads to new ideas for solving problems facing society at the local, national and global level.

The Brookings Institution

Senior Fellow, Economic Studies

The Causes Of Poverty?

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The Causes Of Poverty?

Host

AU School of Public Affairs

Speakers

William Darity

Isabel V. Sawhill

Coordinator

Thomas Merrill

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