Articles
Poverty in the Twenty-First Century: Explaining the Need for the New Journal and Describing Its Goals
Max J. Skidmore
Anti-Poverty Politics in Chile: A Preliminary Assessment of the Chile Solidario Program
Silvia Borzutzky
Public Policy, Income Distribution, and Class Warfare
G. Ross Stephens
A Just Retirement Pension System: Beyond Neoliberalism
Mark Hyde and John Dixon
Features
The Rural Poor in the American South: Case Studies of Exits from 20th Century Poverty
Mary Delorse Coleman
Public Policy Reviews
Book Reviews
Book Review of Shapiro's Is the Welfare State Justified?
Mark Hyde and John Dixon
Proceedings of the PSO
Proceedings of the PSO, New Series no. 1
The Proceedings of the PSO contains news from the policy studies community, such as upcoming conferences, awards, announcements, calls for papers, new books and new journals. The Proceedings also include letters from the PSO President and the PSO webmaster that reflect on the current state of policy studies scholarship.

