human cost of welfare: how the system hurts the people it's supposed to help," the authors are phil harvey and lisa conyers and they will be upstairs signing some books, please join us for lunch and get your books signed. thank you very much for coming. [applause] [inaudible conversations] >> this weekend on booktv, the annapolis book festival from maryland state capital. afterwords the rise of elected women in public office with representative maxine waters. for a complete television schedule visit booktv.org. booktv, 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors, television for serious readers. >> here's a look at some authors recently featured on booktv's afterwords, our weekly interview program. former congressman jc watts talked about guiding principles he follows in his professional and personal life. professor and former chairwoman of the civil rights commission mary frances berry explore the history of voter fraud and suppression. nancy cohen discussed the challenges women face in politics and potential of a woman president. in coming weeks on afterwords the mother of columbine high sch

in the meantime lets hear from authors of it and start with phil harvey. [applause] >> thank you all for coming out o. thank you for being here on what started out to be a very rainy day it isn't any longer, had which is good. thanks to the cato institute for arranging this and making it possible, and special thanks to michael tanner, michael has written, studied, lectured widely on subjects relating to welfare and poverty in the united states. and his work has greatly informed our book, and we're especially grateful to him for that. we'll talk a little bit today about the basic issues outlined in our book issuesing to welfare and its problems. we'll talk quickly about the welfare state in extent to which the united states is becoming one. the correlation between the rise in welfare and the drop in work participation in the yiet. the extent to which people on welfare feel trapped and in many cases are trapped in a cycle of welfare and poverty and dependence. and we'll discuss briefly benefits one was principle reasons for that feeling that sensation of ent

it's a terrific book we will be signing later on we will start with phil harvey. [applause] thank you for being here what started out to be a rainy day which is good and thanks to the cato institute for making it possible and a special thanks to michael tanner. he's written, studied, lectured on subjects relating to welfare and poverty in the united states and his work has greatly informed our book and we are especially grateful to him for that. we will talk a little bit today about the basic issues outlined in our book issues related to welfare and its problems. we will talk about the welfare state and the extent to which the united states is becoming one. the correlation between the rise in welfare and the drop in the workforce participation and the united states and the extent to which people on welfare feel trapped in many cases and are trapped in a cycle of welfare and poverty and independence and we will discuss briefly the benefits that is one of the principal reasons for that feeling and that sensation of entrapment that so many lisa interviewed. first let

the book forum for the human cost of welfare by phil harvey and lisa conyers. for those folks who are following this online, you can follow along on twitter atcato event or hash tag human cost of welfare. the u.s. federal government last year spent roughly $688 billion to fund more than 100 antipoverty programs. federal -- state, local governments, rather, 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 lyndon johnson declared war on poverty, we spent some 22 or $23 trillion fighting poverty. what have we really accomplished over that period of time? if you used the census bureau's numbers, poverty rates have barely budged and even if you use the al concern i.t. poverty measure which are more accurate and take into account noncash benefits and things like taxation and other things, you find that progress against poverty really stalled out somewhere in the 1970s and has been pretty flat ever since. we're sp

the authors are phil harvey and lisa conyers and they'll be upstairs signing books. so, please join us for lunch, and get your book signed. thank you all very much for coming. [applause] [inaudible conversations discussion] -- [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> booktv recently took tour of the folger shakespeare library in washington, dc. it holds the largest shakespeare collection in the world. here's a portion of that tour. >> this is published in 1623. it's the most complete single volume record of shakespeare's works, and it's important that his friends assembled it because they probably had a better idea of what shakespeare thought what important they dade wonderful thing. they said here's three types of plays, comedies, histories and tragedies, which helps us as literary critics. this is an engraving that was -- it's part of the book, it's missing from some copies and very valuable, but ben joynson, who knew shakespeare, says this is a likeness of the man and that's one of those person-to-person familiar connections to shakespeare, and so we

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