Obama's day: A conference on poverty

The challenges of poverty dominate President Obama's schedule on Tuesday.

In the late morning, the president travels to nearby Georgetown University to participate in the Catholic-Evangelical Leadership Summit on Overcoming Poverty.

The conference brings together faith leaders and policy makers to look for ways to lift people out of poverty, and what role the government should or should not play.

Obama will participate in a discussion with scholars who have researched responses to poverty: Robert Putnam, professor of public policy at the Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government, and Arthur Brooks, president of the American Enterprise Institute.

The discussion will be moderated by E.J. Dionne, Jr., a Washington Post columnist and a professor at Georgetown's McCourt School of Public Policy.

Also on Tuesday, in the late afternoon, Obama meets with Defense Secretary Ashton Carter.