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Peter Edelman

Faculty director at the Center on Poverty, Inequality, and Public Policy at Georgetown University. He was top adviser to Senator Robert F. Kennedy and also a member of President Bill Clinton’s administration until he resigned in protest after Clinton signed the 1996 welfare reform legislation. His latest book is So Rich, So Poor: Why It’s So Hard to End Poverty in America.

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50 Years After LBJ’s “War on Poverty,” a Call for a New Fight Against 21st Century Inequality

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“So Rich, So Poor”: Peter Edelman on Ending U.S. Poverty & Why He Left Clinton Admin over Welfare Law

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A high government official who quit after President Clinton signed the welfare law, breaks his silence

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