Editor's Note

When I took over as Editor-in-Chief of the Harvard Journal of African American Public Policy in the fall of 2012, I wanted to see the journal surpass all other student-run publications at the Harvard Kennedy School. The 2014 edition of the Harvard Journal of African American Public Policy brings some familiar and some new voices to the discussion on how we might improve the lives of Black Americans and, subsequently, Americans overall. Mary Elizabeth Taylor offers an opportunity to explore important bipartisan possibilities for dealing with poverty from a national policy level, specifically targeting Black Americans affected by the 2008 economic crisis.