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Articles in May 2007 issue of American Prospect, The

• Creating an opportunity society: asset-building strategies can broaden the American promise of ownership. But they can't succeed on the cheap, or by shifting even more risks to the poor.(SOLUTIONS)
  by Oliver, Melvin L.; Shapiro, Thomas M.
• Don't blame immigrants for poverty wages: the remedy is wage protections, worker rights, and better education and training for both immigrants and native-born workers.(RACE AND POVERTY)
  by Tienda, Marta
• More polarizing than Rehnquist: Chief Justice John Roberts won Senate confirmation by vowing to shun ideological activism. Instead, by trashing judicial precedent and legislative statutes, he's reshaping law to fit conservative dogma.
  by Lazarus, Simon
• Is rising inequality reversible?(PROSPECTS)(income inequality)
  by Starr, Paul
• Debt: the new safety net: low-income families are saddled with very high-interest debt. They're not spendthrifts--their earnings are inadequate to fulfill basic needs.(POVERTY, WORK, AND REWARD)
  by Draut, Tamara
• Inequality, race, and remedy: it would be hopeful to believe that race is no longer a factor in poverty and that we can be a color-blind society. But America still has a legacy to overcome--and to achieve.(RACE AND POVERTY)
  by Jenkins, Alan
• The health of nations: here's how Canada, France, Britain, Germany, and our own Veterans Health Administration manage to cover everybody at less cost and with better care than we do.
  by Klein, Ezra
• What can worker training do? Plenty, but career ladders need to lead to rewarding jobs.(POVERTY, WORK, AND REWARD)
  by Fitzgerald, Joan; Sum, Andrew
• The changing face of poverty in America: why are so many women, children, racial and cultural minorities still poor?(UNDERSTANDING THE CHALLENGE)
  by Spriggs, William E.
• What Rudy believes: gun control? Welcoming immigrants? A woman's right to choose? Never mind his past positions. The only -ism that Rudy Giuliani believes in is sadism.(Rudolph Guiliani)(Cover story)
  by Tomasky, Michael
• Wages and the social contract: needed: more worker bargaining power.(POVERTY, WORK, AND REWARD)
  by Kochan, Thomas A.
• Making poverty history: there is no secret about what it takes to end poverty. We just have to get serious about doing it.(UNDERSTANDING THE CHALLENGE)
  by Greenberg, Mark
• Shul politics.(COMMENT)(american jews, political influence of American Israel Public Affairs Committee)
  by Franke-Ruta, Garance
• High-quality preschool as antipoverty: a child's early years are a fertile time to eliminate the intergenerational cycle of disadvantage.(POVERTY AND EDUCATION)
  by Duncan, Greg J.
• Ending poverty in America..
  by Kuttner, Robert; Rapoport, Miles
• Obama and the rules.(THE OUT YEARS)(Barack Obama)
  by Schmitt, Mark
• Closing college doors: how higher education sacrifices opportunity to privilege.(POVERTY AND EDUCATION)
  by Haycock, Kati
• Branding the Democrats.(COMMENT)
  by Westen, Drew
• Spot the fake right-wing book title.(QUIZ)(Brief article)
• Is education the cure for poverty? Partly, but schools are just one factor among many.(POVERTY AND EDUCATION)
  by Bernstein, Jared
• Era of hope and sorrow.(Age of Betrayal: The Triumph of Money in America)(West from Appomattox: The Reconstruction of America After the Civil War)(Book review)
  by Kazin, Michael
• Regrets, they're had a few.(Up Front)(political campaigns)
  by Meyerson, Harold
• Faith, charity, and justice: there's a role for faith-based groups in battling poverty, but we need power along with glory.(THE BIG DEBATES)
  by Cortes, Ernesto, Jr.
• Our bodies, our choices.(The Case Against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering)(Book review)
  by Konner, Melvin
• From the executive editor.
  by Meyerson, Harold
• Compassion and coalition: the paradox of helping the poor by helping all Americans.(SOLUTIONS)
  by Kuttner, Robert
• Using carrots and sticks: welfare reform rewarded work and discouraged self-defeating behavior. What else needs to be done?(THE BIG DEBATES)
  by Haskins, Ron; Sawhil, Isabel
• Blowing off the war: conservatives know virtually nothing about Iraq or the Walter Reed scandal if they get their news from right-wing media. But they do know that Democrats are to blame.
  by Waldman, Paul
• Economist defends economists.(Letter to the editor)
  by Holzer, Harry J.
• Redeeming public remedy: it takes effective government to restore opportunity. After decades of government-bashing, we need to win back support for what we do in common.(SOLUTIONS)
  by Lipsky, Michael; Stewart, Dianne
• False choices on poverty: why we must address both economics and values.(THE BIG DEBATES)
  by Callahan, David
• Can block clubs block despair? Why do some poor communities fall apart while others cohere? Community organization can make a difference--up to a point.
  by Press, Eyal
• Chinese change cometh.(Letter to the editor)
  by Hutton, Will