Hosted. In washington, d. C. Good afternoon, welcome to the Cato Institute. Appreciate you coming out today. This is a really important topic. I have a book forum here for the the human cost of welfare by phil harvey and lisa conyers. For those folks following online you can follow along on twitter at catoevent or thehumancostofwelfare. The United States government spent roughly 688 billion dollars to fund more than 100 antipoverty programs. State and local governments spent an additional 300 billion on those and other programs. That means the government is spending close to a trillion dollars every year fighting poverty. If you want to go all the way back to 1965 when johnson declared war on poverty we have spent 2223 trillion dollars fighting poverty. But what have we really accomplished over that period of time . If you use the census bureaus officials poverty numbers poverty rates have barely budged. If you use the alternative poverty measures that are more accurate and take into a
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Perspective on race. Former congressmen allen west talks about book guardian of the republic. And then at 11 00 collection of accounts of holocaust survivors. It happens tonight at cspans book tv. Surprise winning historian is next on book tv, he examines the political career of George Washington. [inaudible conversations] good afternoon. My name is adam kushner, our weekly session for analysis and essay, arguments, Investigative Journalism and for this day Nonfiction Book coverage. Its amazing. I am extremely excite today introduce today excited to introduce today eric larson, few University Professor there. The professor has nine books and won summer of the gods, and disputed debate science and policy. He has written for the washington output section, outlook section is not one of them. Its something that we decided to fix. Latest book is the return of George Washington and whats great about it is that it takes a figure we know very well for his role in fighting the british and being
Speechwriter, but in making a film about them. Which is how i came to be a today. I made a film in 2006, seven, eight, about the obama campaign, and one of my favorite parts about the film is getting to spend time with the speechwriters. And when i met dick goodwin a aa screen for the family started telling me stories, and the stories were so rich and so colorful that i thought this would be a great subject for a documentary. And knows all these guys really well and knows where all the bodies are buried. So without further ado, i would like to introduce robert and you are in for a real treat. Thank you. [applause] thank you for that wonderful introduction. I want to thank david murray the professional speech Writers Association for putting this panel on. I want to thank georgetown for hosting us. I want to thank cspan for preserving for posterity that will no doubt be great wisdom from this panel. So the Space Shuttle has blown up yet there has been a terrorist attack. There has been a
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