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Distributed: March 27, 1996
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Deputy Assistant to President Clinton To Speak on "Regaining America's Trust"

Princeton, N.J.--Jeremy Ben-Ami '84, deputy assistant to President Clinton for domestic policy, will speak on "Regaining America's Trust: Government's Challenge for the 21st Century" at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs on Monday, April 1, at 4:30 p.m. in Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall.

Ben-Ami, who majored in the Woodrow Wilson School while an undergraduate at Princeton, is responsible for coordinating and monitoring key elements of the President's domestic agenda. He had previously been the chief of staff of the White House Domestic Policy Council (DPC), coordinating the DPC's work with the work of other agencies and offices in addition to working on welfare reform and other social service issues. Before joining the DPC, he was special assistant to the assistant secretary for children and families in the Department of Health and Human Services, where he helped to coordinate the Working Group on Welfare Reform, Family Support, and Independence. The Working Group was appointed by President Clinton to develop a plan to implement his pledge to "end welfare as we know it."

Before joining the Clinton administration, Ben-Ami was the assistant deputy commissioner of the New York City Human Resources Administration, where he was responsible for developing supported housing programs for the homeless. He also helped coordinate the development of New York City's five-year plan for housing and serving the homeless. Ben-Ami has a law degree from New York University.

His talk is being sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School.

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