December 1998

Cover Story: Jason's Brain Trust, Welfare Chief Jason Turner has big plans for the city's poor. His history – and his hand-picked assistants – suggest that New York's welfare recipients are in for a tough ride, by Carl Vogel and Neil deMause. Other stories include a review of the year's federal budget; Kemba Johnson on the Work Experience Program at the Bellevue Men's Shelter; Glenn Thrush on the illegal, dangerous, overcrowded apartments of Richmond Hill, although the crowding allows immigrants to afford to live in the area; Robin Epstein on the often unfair role played by evaluators in the grantmaking world; Paul Parkhill's book review of "The Meadowlands: Wilderness Adventures at the Edge of a City" by Robin Sullivan; and more.

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