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From the Editorial Team 546458 NLFXXX10.1177/1095796014546458New Labor ForumNew Labor Forum research-article2014 New Labor Forum 2014, Vol. 23(3) 5 –6 From the Editorial Team Copyright © 2014, The Murphy Institute, City University of New York Reprints and permissions: sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/1095796014546458 nlf.sagepub.com Should we add “poverty” to that short list of In addition to Fox Piven’s assessment of that harsh realities—“death” and “taxes”—that will first War on Poverty, many of the articles in this never go away? It would seem so. This is the issue wrestle with facets of our own era’s “new fiftieth anniversary of the “War on Poverty.” poverty.” Municipal bankruptcies are becoming Yet, poverty has prevailed, enveloping growing frighteningly common. Iris J. Lav explores why numbers of Americans, especially children, they have arisen; how working people, espe- single mothers, immigrants, and the working cially unions, are blamed; and how once found poor. Frances Fox Piven takes us back to that blameworthy, they are punished. One way pov- original declaration of war. She analyzes the erty has made its presence felt lately is in the motivations of political elites as well as the country’s unprecedented levels of income and sometimes compatible and sometimes incom- wealth inequality. Lawrence Mishel, John patible objectives that http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png New Labor Forum SAGE

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New Labor Forum , Volume 23 (3): 2 – Sep 1, 2014
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546458 NLFXXX10.1177/1095796014546458New Labor ForumNew Labor Forum research-article2014 New Labor Forum 2014, Vol. 23(3) 5 –6 From the Editorial Team Copyright © 2014, The Murphy Institute, City University of New York Reprints and permissions: sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/1095796014546458 nlf.sagepub.com Should we add “poverty” to that short list of In addition to Fox Piven’s assessment of that harsh realities—“death” and “taxes”—that will first War on Poverty, many of the articles in this never go away? It would seem so. This is the issue wrestle with facets of our own era’s “new fiftieth anniversary of the “War on Poverty.” poverty.” Municipal bankruptcies are becoming Yet, poverty has prevailed, enveloping growing frighteningly common. Iris J. Lav explores why numbers of Americans, especially children, they have arisen; how working people, espe- single mothers, immigrants, and the working cially unions, are blamed; and how once found poor. Frances Fox Piven takes us back to that blameworthy, they are punished. One way pov- original declaration of war. She analyzes the erty has made its presence felt lately is in the motivations of political elites as well as the country’s unprecedented levels of income and sometimes compatible and sometimes incom- wealth inequality. Lawrence Mishel, John patible objectives that

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