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Edited by: Nancy A. Bremer, University Relations and Communications, 260-481-6808

Media contact: Julie Creek, coordinator, Center for Women and Returning Adults, 260-481-4140

Empower Yourself to Overcome Poverty—IPFW Offers Advice on Surviving in the New Economic Landscapes

(Fort Wayne, October 29, 2009) -- Find out how anti-poverty programs can both help and hurt low-income Americans in the struggle to make it into the shrinking middle class at the panel discussion, “So Are the Poor Always Going to Be with Us? Empowering Ourselves to Overcome Poverty.” The discussion will take place Friday, Nov. 6, from noon to 1:15 p.m. in the Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW) Walb Student Union, Rooms 114-116. It is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be provided.

Panelists will critique anti-poverty programs and how they affect the lives and choices of people who must depend on them. Jane Avery, executive director, Community Harvest Food Bank; Patrick Ashton, associate professor of sociology, IPFW; and Joan Uebelhoer, activist and former director, Indiana Family and Social Services Administration, Northeast District, will serve as panelists.

The program is sponsored by the IPFW Center for Women and Returning Adults, a division of Diversity and Multicultural Affairs; and the Indiana-Purdue Student Government Association. It is the second in a series of seminars and discussions called “Empowering Ourselves: Surviving and Thriving in a Rapidly Changing World.”

For more information, contact Julie Creek, coordinator for the IPFW Center for Women and Returning Adults, at 260-481-4140 or creekj@ipfw.edu.

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