*  Forbes' Data Base of the Richest 400 Americans

       *  National Center for Children in Poverty

       *  Children's Defense Fund

       *  Recent Welfare Statistics

       *  Joint Center for Poverty Research (U. of Chicago/Northwestern)

       *  Institute for Research on Poverty (U. of Wisconsin)

       *  National Coalition for the Homeless

       *  The Hunger Site -- Go here to learn about world hunger, and
                sponsors of the site will provide free food through the U.N.
                in proportion to the number of visits by web-surfers.  Very interesting
                and creative.

       *  The Widening Income Gulf by Shapiro and Greenstein;  Center on
                Budget and Policy Priorities

       *  Two Nations of Black America with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.