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Acknowledgments In assembling this volume, we have accumulated many debts. We are especially grateful to participants in the conference, "Making the Politics of Poverty and Inequality: How Public Policies Are Reshaping American Democracy," held in Madison, Wisconsin, in April 2005. We benefited immensely from the insights provided by all who attended, including those who did not write chapters for this volume: Maria Cancian, Christopher Jencks, Nicole Kazee, Ryan King, Cathie Jo Martin, Marcia Meyers, Erin O'Brien, David Robertson, Virginia Sapiro, Steve Savner, and Timothy Smeeding. The conference that gave rise to this volume, like this book itself, would not have been possible without the generous support of the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Russell Sage Foundation. We are also grateful to Helena Claiborne Lefkow and Kathryn Neumeister at the University of Wisconsin and Matthew Callan at the Russell Sage Foundation for their editorial skill in preparing this book for publication. Finally, we thank the American Political Science Association for permission to reprint revised material from "A Public Transformed? Welfare as Policy Feedback," American Political Science Review 101(1): 111-27, © 2007 American Political Science Association, included in Chapter 5 of this volume. Our spouses, Kira Dahlk, Oona Hathaway, and Wayne Grove, made this volume possible . They each singlehandedly managed busy households of young children while we traveled to the meetings that got the project off the ground. As we proceeded with our work, they offered their support and encouragement, even on those days when we spent more time talking with each other than we did with them. With love and gratitude, we dedicate the volume to them. ...

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