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Will Cities Be Heard in Campaign 2012?
Great nations feature great cities. But American campaigns usually don't. Four years after voters elected a president who pledged to do more for cities, is that about to change?
Is The Promise Real?
The Harlem Children's Zone Becomes a Template for National Change.
One Idealist's Progress
In Fighting Poverty Online
Darryl Penrice has been needy himself. Now that he's stumbled across a potential way to reduce want for everyone, he's determined to make it work.
Yes We Can
End Hunger
In his new book, activist Joel Berg says everyone can have enough to eat.
Theme And Variations
On Deprivation And Dignity
A new book includes perspectives on poverty in America both from scholars and those with firsthand experience.
CITY BLOCKS LIKE SHOPPING MALLS
A new book helps make sense of un-cosmopolitan currents washing over Gotham.
HOMELESS BUT NOT VOTELESS:
CITIZENS BECOME ENFRANCHISED
Hundreds of newly signed up homeless voters are ready to participate in November.
City Lit: The Myth of Welfare Reform
Documenting how much never changed, a journalist points to what could.
The Match Game
Individual Development Accounts were the hot antipoverty idea of the 1990s, and tens of thousands of striving Americans now watch their money get matched and grow. Does it matter that most of them weren't poor to begin with?
The Big Idea: Ailing Giant
Take a shaky health care system that grew too fast. Add recession. Stir in Dubya's new deregulation plan. What do you get? Medicaid's collapse.
A Room of One's Own
The massive Harlem HUD scandal left hundreds of abandoned brownstones in its wake. But now there's good news, too: it is also giving birth to a vibrant new tenant movement.
Breaking the Law
Legal Services consolidates--and feuds.
Faith Accompli
A Crown Heights church is one of a dozen in the city getting government cash to bring welfare recipients into line. Its minister breaks a Giuliani gag order to speak the truth about charitable choice.
GOVERNOR QUIETLY MOVES TO BUY HIS ISLAND FOR NEW YORK
Touting expenses for private developers, Gov. Pataki produces a plan to return Governor's Island to New York.
Making Up Kids' Minds
The charter school revolution has arrived, with promises of innovation and choice. But community groups say the business has room for only one idea of what kids need from their schools.
Gramm’s Fairy Tales
Curmudgeonly commentary, an enemies list and Texas-sized lies--Senator Phil Gramm is out to destroy the Community Reinvestment Act, and even the banks can't stop him.
Law & Borders: The New Community Policing Turns Neighbors Into Cops
When the NYPD designated Valentine Avenue as a "model block," residents hoped it would mean safer streets. Instead, they found themselves fighting crime on their own.
Response Time
Five activists probe the city's reaction to the Amadou Diallo shooting, from the politics behind the protests to the future of organizing. Has New York witnessed the spark of a lasting movement, or just a shooting star?
City Lit: Nuts to Soup
A book review of Sweet Charity?: Emergency Food and the End of Entitlements by Janet Poppendieck, Viking Press, 1998, 354 pages, $26.95.
Jason's Brain Trust
When Jason Turner was hired to revamp New York City's welfare system, he brought his ideological convictions and those of his closest advisors with him.
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