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

Allied Forces By Ted Kleine On May 6, the front-page of the Chicago Tribune boasted, "Jobless rate at a 30-year low." That same morning, a thousand poor folks and their allies gathered in the ballroom of the Chicago Hilton and Towers to provide a subhead to the story: A lot of those new jobs don't pay the bills. The event was the founding convention of the National Campaign for Jobs and Income Support, a coalition of 100 grassroots poverty organizations in more than 40 states, which aims to win health benefits and a living wage for workers who've been shunted off welfare and into low-paying jobs. "The world's wealthiest country allows hundreds of thousands of full-time workers to live in poverty even though they work 40 hours a week," Illinois Rep. Luis Gutierrez told a hometown crowd. "I am going to make sure that in America, we stop talking about minimum wage and start talking about living wage."   TOP HOME SUBSCRIBE MAIL   In These Times © 2000 Vol. 24, No. 14