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# #CatoConnects: Building an Inclusive Economy 

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December 13, 2018 1 - 1:30 PM EST 

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Featuring **Michael D. Tanner**, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute, and Author, *The Inclusive Economy: How to Bring Wealth to America’s Poor* ([@MTannerCato](http://www.twitter.com/mtannercato)); moderated by **Kat Murti**, Senior Digital Outreach Manager, Cato Institute ([@KatMurti](https://www.twitter.com/katmurti)). 

Too much of contemporary anti-poverty policy focuses on making poverty less miserable, and not enough on helping people get out of poverty.

In his new book, [*The Inclusive Economy: How to Bring Wealth to America’s Poor*](https://www.amazon.com/Inclusive-Economy-Bring-Wealth-Americas/dp/194864701X?tag=catoinstitute-20) (release date: December 7), Cato senior fellow Michael Tanner looks at the reasons for poverty in America and issues a bold challenge to the conventional wisdom of both liberals and conservatives.

According to Tanner, conservative critiques of a “culture of poverty” fail to account for the structural circumstances in which the poor live — especially racism, gender discrimination, and economic dislocation — while liberal calls for fighting poverty through redistribution or new government programs simply entrench those problems.

*The Inclusive Economy* calls for government to stop doing things that push people into poverty, and it provides a detailed road map to a new anti-poverty policy that includes criminal justice reform, greater educational freedom, housing deregulation, banking reform, and both increased and more inclusive economic growth

Tweet your questions with [\#CatoConnects](https://www.twitter.com/hashtag/CatoConnects), and join a live discussion of the structural forces keeping poor people poor and how we can instead empower the poor and allow them to take control of their own lives.

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