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3:20 pm Symposia #3 Maxwell Auditorium, first floor Maxwell Hall The Future of the Family Participants: James Q. Wilson James Q. Wilson is Ronald Reagan Professor of Public Policy at Pepperdine University. He began his academic career as Professor of Government at Harvard University in the 1960’s. He later taught at UCLA. Recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Wilson has written on the nature of human morality, government and criminal justice. His books include “The Moral Sense,” and “The Marriage Problem: How Our Culture Has Weakened Families.” George Will George F. Will is an ABC News commentator, Pulitzer Prize winner, and author of a syndicated column which appears in more than 450 newspapers. He became a contributing editor of Newsweek magazine in 1976 and one year later was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary. Will has published five collections of columns including “The Pursuit of Happiness and Other Sobering Thoughts”, and “The Morning After: American Successes and Excesses: 1981-1986.” John Palmer John L. Palmer was appointed University Professor in 2003 at Syracuse University, where he had been Dean, and Professor of Economics and Public Administration, of the Maxwell School for the prior 15 years. He is currently a public trustee for the Medicare and Social Security programs. He has been a senior fellow of the Brookings Institution and the Urban Institute and Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation at the Department of Health and Human Services. Moderator: Timothy Smeeding Timothy M. Smeeding is an economist and Maxwell Professor of Public Policy. He is Director of the Center for Policy Research and of the Luxembourg Income Study Project, which he founded in 1983. Smeeding’s primary research focuses on national and cross-national comparisons of inequality and poverty among vulnerable groups, including low-wage workers, children, the aged, and the disabled. He also studies health care finance and the EITC, and he has written extensively on the economics of aging and children. His recent publications include, “Poor Kids in a Rich Country,” “The Economics of an Aging Society” and edited a volume, on “Public Policy and the Family” (with the late Daniel Patrick Moynihan).