Stanford’s Center for the Study of Poverty & Inequality‘s Pathways Magazine (Summer 2011) can be found here. Contents include:
All Together Now, One By One: Building Capacity for Urban Education Reform in Promise Neighborhoods James M. Quane and William Julius Wilson describe the promising results of the Harlem Children’s Zone, why the current backlash against the Harlem Children’s Zone is unwarranted, and the future of such programs across the nation. Innovate, Research, Repeat: New York City’s Center for Economic Opportunity Veronica White and Kristin Morse detail the lessons learned from Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s innovative experiment in combating poverty in our nation’s biggest city. The “Wisconsin Idea” and Antipoverty Innovation Timothy M. Smeeding and Joanna Y. Marks take us on a tour of Wisconsin’s past and present as a national leader in the science-driven battle against poverty. Taxing the Poor: How Some States Make Poverty Worse Katherine S. Newman and Rourke L. O’Brien show that many Southern states are making poverty worse because of their regressive tax policies.