Preface -- Adolescent biology, poverty, and risk / Mike A. Males and Randall G. Shelden, Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice, San Francisco, California, USA, and others -- Socioeconomic status and service interpretation : how class-based cultural capital affects americorps members'...

The Obama Administration's Feed the Future Initiative / Marian L. Lawson, Randy Schnepf and Nicolas Cool -- Achieving impact : leadership and partnership to Feed the Future (U.S. Government efforts to fight hunger, poverty and malnutrition) / Feed the Future.

2014 marks the 50th anniversary of the War on Poverty, but poverty remains a difficult policy challenge. The Obama Administration and some in Congress have offered proposals that seek to address poverty, with the proposals differing considerably in their focus and content. However, the themes...