June 12 , 2000 Poverty in America: Turning the Tables BY NEIL DEMAUSE Welfare reform faces 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 BY JEFFERY 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

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Once again, In These Times has been honored by Project Censored in its annual list of the top 25 under-reported news stories. Read the winners here. What Was the War For? August 8, 1999 BY SETH ACKERMAN What Rambouillet really said. 30 Years After August 8, 1999 BY JEFFREY ST. CLAIR The legacy of America's largest nuclear test Hot Property, Cold Cash October 17, 1999 BY JEFFREY ST. CLAIR The plan to make Russia the world's nuclear waste dump Election 2000 Recent articles on the November elections. Did you miss a recent issue? May 29, 2000 May 15, 2000 May 1, 2000 April 17, 2000 April 2. 2000 March 20, 2000 After Seattle Our special issue on the WTO protests Some other recent articles: VIeques Libre October 3, 1999 BY JUAN GONZALEZ Puerto Rico wants the U.S. Navy to get out Class Ceiling November 28, 1999 BY BARBARA EHRENREICH Can feminism survive? After the Fall December 12, 1999 BY DEAN BAKER The stock market will crash. Then what? God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian February 7, 2000 BY KURT VONNEGUT Union Busting 101 February 21, 2000 BY TERRY J. ALLEN