How to Solve the Long-term Unemployment and Poverty? Welfare Reform in Slovakia and USA - Remarks by Ambassador Rodolphe Vallee.

On March 9, 2006, the Conservative Institute of M. R. Štefánik, Permanent Conference of the Civic Institute and Association for Social Reform organized a conference How to Solve the Long-term Unemployment and Poverty? Welfare Reform in Slovakia and USA.

Programme of the conference:

1st Bloc: US Experience

The Sad History of Welfare in Modern America.
Ted Abram, Executive Director of the American Institute for Full Employment

The lecture is available here as an Adobe Acrobat PDF.

Ted Abram`s lecture was held within the Conservative Economic Quarterly Lecture Series (CEQLS).

Possibilities of Taking Advantage from the Welfare Reform Experience in Colorado
Bill Baker, Association for Social Reform

2nd Bloc: Welfare Reform Alternatives for Slovakia

Presentation of Draft of Welfare Reform in Slovakia
Peter Gonda, Ondrej Dostál a Michal Novota, analysts for the Conservative Institute of M. R. Štefánik

Draft of Welfare Reform in Slovakia is available here as an Adobe Acrobat.

Social Contribution Bonus and Redistributive Social Contribution
Richard Sulík, expert on tax policy and social contribution system

photo/soc15.JPGHow to Solve the Long-term Unemployment and Poverty in Slovakia?
Panel Discussion: Iveta Radičová (Minister of Labour, Social Affairs and Family), Ted Abram (Executive Director of the American Institute for Full Employment), Bill Baker (Association for Social Reform), Richard Sulík (independent expert), Peter Tatár (Permanent Conference of the Civic Institute) and Peter Gonda (analyst for the Conservative Institute)