June 12 , 2000 Poverty in America: Turning the Tables BY NEIL DEMAUSE Welfare reform face a time limit of its own. Allied Forces BY TED KLEINE The National Campaign for Jobs and Income Support Poverty in a Gilded Age BY ANNETTE FUENTES An interview with Frances Fox Piven. Out of Sight BY KARI LYDERSEN In many cities, being homeless is against the law. Leave the Kids Alone BY MIKE MALES Poverty is the real problem The Union Difference BY DAVID MOBERG Down and Out on Polk Street PHOTOGRAPHS BY KEVIN WEINSTEIN Other Features: Star Wars: Episode Two BYJEFFERY ST. CLAIR The Pentagon's latest missile defense fantasy. "This Is Not Life. This Is Prison" BY RICHARD MERTENS Kosovo one year after the NATO bombing. Bosnian Serbs Still Look to Belgrade BY PAUL HOCKENOS News & Views Editorial BY JOEL BLEIFUSS Memo to third parties: Face Reality. Appall-O-Meter BY DAVID FUTRELLE A Terry Laban Cartoon Marching On BY DAVE LINDORFF Unity 2000 plans to disrupt this summer's GOP convention The Other Side of the Street BY KIM PHILLIPS-FEIN Food workers target Goldman Sachs Going to Waste BY ERIC WELTMAN Health Care Without Harm cleans up toxic hospitals Profile BY KARI LYDERSEN Flour Power Forgotten America BY Juan Gonzalez Bombs Away Culture Ancient Daze BY JOSHUA ROTHKOPF FILM: Ridley Scott's Gladiator A Class by Itself BY BILL BOISVERT BOOKS: David Brooks' Bobos in Paradise A Different Point of View BY PAT AUFDERHEIDE TV: P.O.V. on PBS

Down and Out on Polk Street Photographs by Kevin Weinstein After breaking a hole through the wall of a Polk Street squat, Ace crawls through and discovers a spot in an abandoned adult theater. Credit: Kevin Weinstein. Teens are expected to push limits and approach life with a certain impetuousness. But many more teens are growing up without the stability of a home. The young are among the fastest growing groups of homeless. Each year, 2.8 million teens run away, more than 60 percent of whom left home because of physical or sexual abuse. Kevin Weinstein began photographing runaways on Polk Street in San Francisco's Tenderloin District when he was in art school. He was only 22 at the time, and his photographs express the stormy vitality of adolescence, when the future is an afterthought. At the same time, the stark world of the street is ever present. Here, there really is no future. Weinstein is now a staff photojournalist for Copley's Sun Publications near Chicago. His story about street kids won first place in the documentary category for College Photographer of the Year in 1994. Most recently, he received a grant from the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture to do a project on Ethiopian Jews in Israel. Kristin Kolb-Angelbeck talked to Weinstein about his experiences with runaways on Polk Street.   TOP HOME SUBSCRIBE MAIL   In These Times © 2000 Vol. 24, No. 14