If New York City's impoverished population were its own city, it would be the seventh largest in the United States. Both President Obama and Mayor Bloomberg have launched innovative programs to reduce urban poverty.

But what potential do these pilot projects have to make a broad impact on the lives of the poor? What roles will government and private philanthropy play? What are the real results of past efforts to reduce poverty?

Katherine M. O'Regan, associate professor of public policy, New York University, hosts a discussion with Veronica M. White, executive director, New York City Center for Economic Opportunity; Luke Tate, Senior Advisor for Urban Policy at the Department of Housing and Urban Development; and Charles Rutheiser, Senior Fellow in Annie E. Casey Foundation's Civic Sites and Initiatives Unit on past lessons and new thinking about how to confront a longstanding urban problem.

City Limits, New York City's leading civic magazine, and the Museum of the City of New York invite you on Tuesday, July 26, 2011 to participate in the discussion.

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