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The article discusses the New Markets Tax Credit Program into law, as part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2001. Topics include lessens taught by Clintonites to Democrats; role of Bill Clinton former presidnet U.S. in the nation-spanning "New Markets" tour of poor places and the poverty policy by officials in working theory.

The article focuses on John Edwards and his campaign for President of the United States in 2008. The author interviews Edwards who discusses his interest is helping working class and poor Americans. Edward's relationship to the U.S. labor movement is discussed. The article also compares and contrasts Edwards to other potential presidential candidates.

Profiles U.S. legislator John Kasich. Factors which contributed to his popularity; Stance of Kasich on tax cuts; Opposition of the politician to corporate welfare; Role of Kasich in developing the budget for the U.S. House of Representatives in 1995; Proposal of Kasich which would affect the spending programs that benefit low-income earners.

Comments on the efficiency of the poverty solution program of Shorebank Corp. in Chicago, Illinois. Economic background of the South Shore neighborhood; Objective of the program; Information on Shorebank Corp; Modalities of working of the Corporation; Instance of the program being subsidized by philanthropists.

Discusses the planned replacement of the Great Society with a conservative vision of the welfare state in order to break the culture of poverty in the U.S. Culture of the largely urban ghettos; Theory that welfare sustains the underclass; Plans of the largest states to apply workfare precepts to their entire caseloads; Lack of the practical difference between mandatory work programs and voluntary programs.

Focuses on the social views of presidential candidate and Governor of Georgia Jimmy Carter in the U.S. Information on his rural background; Efforts made by Carter to improve the conditions of poor in Georgia; Relations of Carter with blacks; Family background of Carter; Characteristics of Carter; Discussion on Carter's faith in Christianity.

Focuses on the plight associated with the old age people who end up living in various slums in the U.S. Comment on substandard economic and physical conditions of old age people who suffer due to negligent attitude on the part of the government to deal with the situation; Requirement for medical care for old age people; Steps to be taken by the U.S. government for providing income facilities to the old poor people.

Presents an article about the social, economic and political conditions in Texas as of April 1969. Background of social and cultural traditions; Problems faced by the poor in the areas of health and welfare; Conditions of the poor in San Antonio; Comment on the reluctance of the state government to increase welfare payments; Observation on the administration of criminal justice in the state.

Expresses the disenchantment of poor people in the Southern Appalachian Region in the U.S. over unemployment, and refusal by the county officials to provide them with government-mandated relief. Public's impression that former U.S. President John F. Kennedy and U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy (D-N.Y.) were different from other politicians who visited the region; Suggestion that a lot people in the region share their social discontent with other people in the U.S.; Criticism against bureaucratic implementation of the Emergency Food and Medical Services Program to poor families; Suggestion that lawyers are culpable in abandoning their duties to their poor clients.

Discusses the views of economist Robert Theobald on guaranteed annual income which he believed would provide income supplementation to people in the U.S. who otherwise would be in poverty or below the adequacy budget. Arguments against the claim of Theobald that full unemployment must be achieved to enable the people to develop their personalities; Details of the universal subsidy to increase the incomes of low-income people, proposed by professor Milton Friedman; Reasons behind the need to gradually substitute the guaranteed annual income for the current social insurance and welfare payments.

Provides information on Washington, D. C. as a lost colony still surviving on the American continent. Discussion on the population of the state and its apartheid residential pattern; Percentage of middle-class African Americans residing in abject poverty and total deprivation in the state, according to a report released by the National Capital Planning Commission in April 1966; Failure of the United Planning Organization, a local anti-poverty agency, to find more jobs and better housing for poor people; Benefits and advantages of foreign politicians, entrepreneur and governors-in-residence in the state, such as low taxes, services for themselves, franchises, and contracts; Contribution and influence of Congressman John L. McMillan, chairman of the House Committee in the District of Columbia, on the economic and political system of the state.

The article offers news briefs for the week of November 20, 1965. Particular focus is given to the war on poverty in the U.S. and the advocacy of placing poor individuals in roles of power within poverty programs. The article also discusses U.S. foreign policy in Vietnam and the U.S. stance on peace negotiations. Further article topics include a damage suit involving Gold Bond trading stamps and a California Supreme Court decision regarding the use of operating expenses as charity.

Provides information on the efforts of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) in the U.S. during the 1960s. History of the student movement; Major problems facing the people of the Near West Side of Cleveland, the subject of the group's first Economic Research and Action Project that focused on poor communities; Political orientation of SDS; Uses of power questioned by SDS president Paul Potter during the April 17, 1965 March on Washington to End the War in Vietnam.

Examines the poverty program proposed by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson to be administered by the non-profit group, United Planning Organization (UPO). Amount of federal poverty funds given to UPO to ameliorate the conditions of the poor; Details of the failure of the Welfare Department to serve the poor; Problems with the lack of low-income housing; Plans of the UPO for finding jobs for the unemployed or underemployed.

Argues that a government program must offer the middle class in the U.S. a different lifestyle in return for the raise in status it would give to the poor in line with its efforts to eradicate poverty. Reasons behind the apathetic or hostile attitude of the middle-class majority toward the poor; Factors contributing to the loss of security among the middle class; Details of how work creates status in society; Political implications of the poverty program of the U.S. government.

The article discusses events related to U.S. politics. The author suggests that U.S. President Richard M. Nixon's refusal to turn over recordings of conversations related to the break-in of the Watergate Hotel is not legally justified by executive privilege. Former Air Force officer Hal M. Knight has testified to the Senate Armed Services Committee that he falsified records of bombing in Cambodia. A report by the U.S. Census Bureau suggests the number of poor people in the U.S. has decreased.

Presents an interview with reporter Dorothy Day by Colman McCarthy. Reference to Dorothy Day as a saintly and heroic woman; Concern of Dorothy Day for poor people; Reflection of the fact that she liked the work of a reporter, but the itch for action competed with the job of reporting the action; Information on radicalism practiced by Dorothy Day which is the notion that Christianity is a workable system; Description of the newspaper "Catholic Worker" founded by her; Reference to her autobiographical work "The Long Loneliness."

Comments on the shortage of urban dwellings in the U.S. Physical shortage on the basis of the actual population and the actual accommodations necessary to house them in health and decency; Increase of the amount that goes to labor as the land costs and the financial costs of private building are diminished in a non-profit, government-aided project; Formation of the physical shortage by the recent lack of building for every class and by the chronic lack of decent building for the lower income groups.

Presents information on the recent socio-political developments from across the world. Expression of condemnation of the government, by the French voters, which they have received from the national bloc; Improvement of the chance which the Dawes plan has for getting fairly into operation; Dependency of the value of franc on Dawes plan; Criticism of the World Court plan by U.S. Senator Henry Cabot Lodge; Information on two bills of national importance that will be on U.S. President Calvin Coolidge's desk soon for his approval; Appreciation of the McNary-Haugen bill to restore the prewar relation between agricultural and industrial prices; Expression of incredulity on the Carnegie report on "Justice and the Poor" for its conclusion that the poor man often does not get fair treatment at the hands of the law.

Focuses on several modes of economic production. Promotion of a mode of economic life called distributism by English writer Hilaire Belloc; Hypothesis of Belloc that in the distributive state, the families composing it are, in a determining number, owners of the land and the means of production as well as themselves the human agents of production; Failure of the distributive theory of economics in England; Statement of economist Ralph Borsodi that the savings effected by mass production tended to be eaten up by the cost which necessarily include the "waste" of mass advertising; Argument of Borsodi that capitalist state competition between corporations results in the wastes of mass advertising and the progressive adulteration of goods; Proposal of Borsodi for program of largely mechanized home production in the U.S. that is designed to bring consumer and producer together in a single spot; Formation of the Independence Foundation Inc., in 1935, by Borsodi, which borrowed enough money at six percent to purchase forty acres of farm land near Suffern, New York; Goal of the organization to subdivide the forty acres into one and two-acre homestead lots and make them available to small-income families at cost; Benefits of the organization to its members.

The article offers information on decision of U.S. president Donald Trump to reform welfare by introducing rules for new immigrants are ineligible for public assistance during first five years in America by former President Bill Clinton. Topics discussed include impact of Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act on families; calls for draconian cuts to safety-net programs; and federal government should not create a culture of dependency on government.

Presents information on the riots that have hit England in 1980s. Description of the outbreak of the first riot in April at Brixton in which the shopping streets of this run-down London suburb were pillaged by large mobs of young people, most of them blacks; Details of the next outbreak which occurred at Southall provoked by the appearance in town of a large party of skinheads, who had arrived to hear a skinhead rock group perform at a local tavern; Reference to the riots as a highly localized, unlethal war between poor, young West Indians, assisted by their poor young white neighbors and the police.

Focuses on the social condition in Iran under the theocratic rule of Ayatollah Ruhollah Mussawi Khomeini. Views on Khomeini's vision for Iran as a Platonic Republic; Effect of the health of Khomeini on his political performance; Comments on the reason behind the poor's support to Khomeini; Causes of the revolution in Iran; Khomeini's special status as revolutionary, priest and politician.

Offers information on how Peruvian businessman and politician Hernando de Soto has helped the poor in Peru. Holding of conference to propose policies for civilian rule; Account of efforts to raise funds for his assault on the Peruvian plutocracy; Background on De Soto's intellectual contributions; Creation of austerity programs for the poor.

Focuses on the moral and ethical aspects of avarice. Reasons for people accumulating valuables; Importance of counting wealth for avarice; Criticism of hoarding possessions; Focus on avarice leading to hardness of heart towards poor and needy; Views of the author on people left with little or no moral grounds; Opinion of the author on avarice that drives people towards inhumanity which cuts people from their fellow-beings.

Presents the results of a study on family planning services for the poor in the United States. Cost per woman per year for family planning advice and devices; Number of unwanted births experienced by the poor and near-poor; Social Security Administration definition of poverty; Possible sources of inaccuracy in the level of services needed; Estimated cost needed to develop programs for providing million women with family planning services under the Five Year Plan.

Focuses on the flaws in the criminal punishment system regarding the poor in the U.S. View that prisons are, in effect, a public welfare system of corrections for the poor; Discussion on the poor reporting of crime in the U.S.; View that the rich offenders get treatment for their rectification while the poor get jail; Discussion on the non-availability of psychologists' service to the poor offenders; Information on several studies showing that major percentage of delinquents in juvenile court come from poor family.

Examines the political stands of U.S. Richard Nixon towards the poor community. Prioritization toward the voting rights of Negroes; Information on the measures in meeting the needs of the indigent people; Comment on the credibility of local officials supporting the President; Suggestion of the name of Congressman Donald Rumsfeld of Illinois as a good Nixon Republican who could be counted upon; View that press and public took so little interest in certain functional changes that had already been accomplished or proposed; Statement that the Bureau of the Budget was working out new administrative procedures, aimed at improving the allocation and delivery of planning grants and seeing to it that the recipients of such grants for similar purposes use them in similar and presumably more efficient ways.

Discusses issues concerning the design of a new system of public assistance to the poor in the U.S., as of November 1967. Characteristic feature of children's allowance proposals; Illustration of a schedule relating guarantees to the size and composition of the family; Discussion on the design element of an offsetting tax on the family's other income; Tabular forms for selected family types and selected incomes.

Focuses on the struggle by the poor people living in eastern Kentucky to prevent strip miners from operating in the area during the 1960s. Resistance shown by the residents to the plan of getting them out of area in order to further strip mining activity; Effort of the Southern Conference Educational Fund Inc. to organize people in a grass-roots movement against strip mining; Outcome of the government programs aimed at reviving the depressed region of Appalachia; Drawbacks to the proposed scheme wherein the authorities will raise money by selling tax-exempt bonds and with the proceeds get the land back from the absentee landowners in the area.

Focuses on the history of the development of the Family Assistance Plan in the United States. Views of liberals on the role of work requirement; Advocacy of President Richard Nixon for welfare reform; Statement that Nixon's plan for families combined a new national work requirement, a mechanism for job referral and placement, and the coverage of a new group of recipients, the working poor; Comments on the aim of the plan which was to match welfare-family heads with work opportunities.

Suggests that the task of public psychological hygiene is to promote, through the control of institutional environment, the maximum utilization of the talents and abilities of mankind. Reemergence of social philosophy of the middle ages; Argument pertaining to the average Intelligence of Quotients of various social classes; View that the Christian stress on the value of personality blazed the trail for egalitarian doctrines of the French Revolution; Belief that the rich are moving to racial extinction even faster than the poor; Opinion that the fear of racial degeneration arises from the enormous current undervaluation of the intelligence of the poorer classes; Discrepancy between the average intelligence of the richer and the poorer classes.

Explains that Census Bureau statistics on the growing wealth of the United States fails to reflect the fact that it is unevenly distributed. Over one hundred and eighty seven billions of dollars; Poorest 65 percent of the population own 5.2 percent of the wealth; Richest two percent own 57 percent of the wealth; Question about the true nature of the wealth; Capital accumulation at a rate almost four times as rapid as the rate of accumulation during the past 20 years; Distinction between private wealth and social wealth.

Points out that the rich need saving because they have strayed from the path set by God. Use of the Bible to argue that the rich have lost their way and are bringing destruction on men; Inability of the rich to see what is wrong because they are occupied and concerned with their money; Observation that the rich are also making the poor turn against the Lord when the poor become angry and vengeful.

Focuses on the various survey reports that inform on the decline in annual incomes of families under various standards of living in the U.S. amidst the Second World War. Mention of several governmental studies on low-income groups including the report by Food and Drug Administration (FDA); Information on two subsistence budgets considered by FDA economists as criteria for determining which of the families should be considered low-income; Estimates of overall food consumption by families at various standards of living; Consequents of low income families according to the FDA and Office of War Information (OWI); Consideration of low-income issue as an urgent problem amidst the war; Disagreement among economists on the exact form of plan to deal with the problem; Account of the plan proposed by the FDA economists.

Presents a general framework on the state of the insurance system in Great Britain with regards to the economic conditions in the country. Opinion on the insurance system of Great Britain by her citizens; Arguments on the statement that the worker' insurance in "contributory"; Analysis of overall economic conditions of lower-income people of London, England; Observations at the exchange at Shoreditch in London, England, a place where unemployed received their benefits; Procedure of payment followed at the exchange.

Focuses on Bolshevism in Cincinnati, Ohio. Remedy for some of the acknowledged deficiencies of social welfare work in large American cities; Claims that the charitable societies in those cities have increased their ability to alleviate the sufferings of the poor; Report that Scientific philanthropy has labored in a social vacuum; Arrangement for common counsel among the members of the skilled professions in the community, as to the way in which they can best meet the needs of the community for their special services; Information about a national association founded by sociologist Wilbur Philips and his wife; Comments on practical operations in the Mohawk-Brighton district; Claims that Bolshevism in Soviet Union and Hungary is government by the proletarian class which gains power by revolution and maintains it by armed force; Report that the Social Unit plan is an experiment in voluntary democracy.

Focuses on the present circumstances facing the U.S. that requires freedom of speech to be restored in its true spirit. View that conservatives, as opposed to radicals, don't do anything to defend freedom of speech in the U.S.; Situation of confrontation now in the society between haves and have-nots in a desire for economic equality; Capability of the poor now to express their free opinion; View that the freedom of speech is the only way out of this morass to bring about an appreciation of the other person's point of view.

A personal narrative is presented which explores the author's experience of growing up poor in Massachusetts, living with a wealthy roommate in Manhattan, New York in the 1980s, and his family's summer trips through the southern U.S. to visit his grandparents.

Presents reports of a political nature; Aspects of Bob Torricelli's fund-raising background causing headaches for John Kerry; Statistical error committed by Robert Rector of the Heritage foundation, cited by John Tierney of the New York Times in an attack on John Edwards; Problematic story on New York times article concerning Arabs raising money to back Bush.

The author argues that Moktada Al Sadr, the fiery young Shia cleric who constantly condemns the U.S. occupation in Iraq, is mainly motivated by a desire for economic gain, and could be bought off by U.S. occupying forces. Despite his rise to prominence in the wake of Saddam Hussein's fall, Sadr has remained a mystery to the American authorities in Iraq and many Western commentators. The 30-year-old son of a beloved Shia leader slain by Saddam in 1999 for opposing the dictator, Sadr has seemed to many in the United States the embodiment of the angry, religion-fueled, uncompromising cleric, a local version of the Ayatollah Khomeini. In fact, Sadr is building a moneymaking empire throughout Shia Iraq. Trading on his martyred father's credentials, Sadr has raised the flags of Islam and Iraqi nationalism in a bid to boost his personal power. He has demanded that the United States leave Iraq, lambasted the U.S.-appointed Iraqi Governing Council as illegitimate, and even considered appointing his own shadow government to rule the country. Sadr's actions have played well with Iraq's most disaffected people--poor young men, former soldiers, and even Baathists upset with moderate Shia leaders' willingness to tolerate the Americans. Sadr also stirs up trouble because he wants to amass great wealth. Since the looting, Sadr has expanded his moneymaking activities. Most important, Sadr has used his army to fight for control of Shiism's most important mosques. Sadr even wants to control central government funds.

Presents several letters to the editor referencing to various articles published in the previous issues of the periodical. Discussion of the trouble with U.S. President George W. Bush's plan to help poor, in the article "The Real Test"; Misinterpretation of the results of certain localities' experiments with school vouchers in the article; Turnabout among liberal intellectuals regarding the virtues of school vouchers.

Argues that the increase in the minimum wage in Los Angeles, California, does little to improve the economic condition of its poor people. Example of the economic condition of city workers such as janitors in Los Angeles; List of other localities that enacted laws which seek to use city purchasing power to promote better labor conditions; Historical background of the living wage measure in Los Angeles.

Analyzes the current three-phase process designed to ensure that the 1990 census is as accurate as possible. Criticisms of the procedure; Why it fails to meet the needs of census; Suggested alternative.

Comments on the conflicting statistics of the House Ways and Means Committee and the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB), on the issue of whether or not the federal tax burden has shifted from the rich to the poor in the United States during the past decade. Assumptions made by Ways and Means Committee about who actually pays the corporate income tax and the employer's portion of Social Security; Harvard professor Lawrence Lindsey's claim that the pecuniary response to lower tax rates is a gain for the government; OMB's argument that non-cash transfer payments are not included in income.

Comments on the decision of Joseph P. Kennedy II to run for a congressional seat in Massachusetts. Media coverage of the Kennedy candidacy; Resentment aroused by Kennedy's candidacy among political establishment; Allegations that Kennedy manipulated his nonprofit enterprise to further his political ambition; Statement of Kennedy that he is the best suited candidate to promote the interest of the poor and the disadvantaged.

Presents several letters to the editor referencing articles and topics published in previous issues of the journal. Comments on the article titled "Open the Door," published in the April 1 issue; Note on open-door immigration policy; Criticism of the above mentioned article by Chuck Lane; Analysis of the article titled "Losing Faith in Losing Ground," published in the March 25 issue; Opinion that the education of poor blacks has suffered substantially because of the Great Society programs.

Presents information on the decision of U.S. President Ronald Reagan to reduce the budget deficit from its current level in December 1984. Reduction in the government programs for the poor and entitlement for the middle class; Discussion of the plans to freeze the spending authority of government agencies and the cancellation of cost-of-living allowances; Focus on strategies for the political opposition.