Summer 1997, Volume 18, Number 2

• Poverty Center Hosts Conference on State Data
• Comer Assails "Winner-Loser" Approach to Education
• New Welfare Limits to Hit Hard...and Soon
• Economist Explains Why More Consumers Going Broke
• Two Academic Societies to Honor Thomas Cook
• Study Finds School Climate Stifles Reform
• Potholes on the Path to Welfare Reform
• War on Poverty Brought Material Relief
• About NUPR
• Speakers Debate Efficacy of Social Science Research
• Why Can't a Journalist Be More Like a Social Scientist? - And Vice Versa
• Policy Perspectives--The Presidents' Summit: Impressions from the Valley
• McKnight Maps a Future for the Family
• Impoverished Chicago Community Abounds with Associational Activity
• Will Private Funds Alter Public Broadcast Mission?
• Study Finds Job Insecurity Squashes East German Birth Rate
• Researchers Identify "Missing Link" in Hiring
• Conference to Focus on Domestic Abuse
• Faculty Bookshelf
• Community Policing Takes Root in Chicago

Newsletter Staff
Editor:	Audrey Chambers
Contributing Editors:	Anne Fitzpatrick Craig LaMay Pat Tremmel
Design and Layout:	Valerie Lorimer
Photos by:	Audrey Chambers Lloyd DeGrane Evanston Photographic Studios Aeysha Walsh Jim Ziv