March 2002

Cover Story: Shelter Skelter by Jill Grossman. Other stories include Kendra Hurley on coming help for immigrants in foster care; Nora McCarthy on certain welfare families' problems getting sufficient help to pay rent; Wendy Davis on the CUNY School of Law's looking to the bar exam to figure out what activist attorneys are made of; Alyssa Katz on the city's housing crisis, as demonstrated by people's experiences at the Emergency Assistance Unit; Wendy Davis on whether even the most understanding judge can make mentally ill defendants obey the law; David Jason Fischer's book review of "Hands to Work: The Stories of Three Families Racing the Welfare Clock" by LynNell Hancock; David Hochman on New York's foundations and the tactics they should be taking; and more.

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