The Shoreline League of Democratic Women is proud to present
Guest Speaker and Author
Jacob S. Hacker CT State Comptroller Kevin Lembo will give a special introduction.
7 PM, Thursday, OCTOBER 4, 2012
Henry Carter Hull Public Library
10 Killingworth Turnpike, Clinton, CT
FREE TO THE PUBLIC
“How American Politics is Undermining the American Dream”
Author Jacob S. Hacker, Ph.D., is the Director of the Institution for Social and Policy Studies, and Stanley B. Resor Professor of Political Science at Yale University. An expert on the politics of U.S. health and social policy, he is the author of Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class, written with Paul Pierson (2010, paperback 2011). Copies of the book will be on sale at the event.
For more information, call (203) 245-4737 or visit www.SLDW.org.
Hacker is also the author of The Great Risk Shift: The New Economic Insecurity and the Decline of the American Dream (2006, paperback 2008), The Divided Welfare State: The Battle over Public and Private Social Benefits in the United States (2002), and The Road to Nowhere: The Genesis of President Clinton’s Plan for Health Security (1997), co-winner of the Brownlow Book Award of the National Academy of Public Administration. He is also co-author, with Paul Pierson, of Off Center: The Republican Revolution and the Erosion of American Democracy (2005) and has edited two volumes—most recently, Health At Risk: America’s Ailing Health System and How to Heal It (2008).
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