Editor-in-Chief Max J. Skidmore discusses Volume 7, Issue 1, of Poverty and Public Policy, the first quarterly issue of 2015. Poverty and Public Policy happily begins the new year by continuing our tradition of presenting quality research from around the world. This issue relies somewhat more heavily on methodological matters than is our custom, but it takes care to present the issues clearly, and in a manner accessible to all of our readers, not merely to those in the scholarly community. It would be difficult to overstate the importance of this issue's lead article, “Aging and Health Care Costs: Narrative Versus Reality,” by David E. Kingsley. Dr. Kingsley, who retired from the University of Kansas Medical School where he conducted research and taught medical statistics, dispels the popular misconception among the American public that increasing longevity drives increasing health care costs. He criticizes popular discourse that tends to ignore important influences, such as poverty, and points out that flawed discourse encourages policymakers to act irrationally and to emphasize unwarranted benefit reduction. Turning our attention to South Asia, we next present two important studies. First, from New Delhi, Sabyasachi Tripathi of the National Institute of Urban Affairs points to a gap in the literature on Indian slums in “Determinants of Large City Slum Incidence in India: A Cross-Sectional Study.” Second, also from India, “Poverty Estimates in India: Old and New Methods, 2004–2005” presents the findings of Durgesh C. Pathak (Assistant Professor at BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad) and Srijit Mishra (Associate Professor at IGIDR), which resulted from their seminal work on poverty and income inequality. Next, we turn our attention to Africa. From Tanzania, Abel Kinyondo, of REPOA, and Riccardo Pelizzo, of Nazarbayev University, present their study of “Tourism, Development, and Inequality: The Case of Tanzania,” in which they investigate the extent to which tourism-induced development contributes to lowering income inequality. This issue includes a review essay, in which Victoria A. Redd, of the University of Florida's Levin College of Law, reviews Poverty and Insecurity: Life in Low-Pay, No-Pay Britain, by Tracy Shildrick and others. Redd adds her conclusions based upon their work in “Where Are the Better Jobs? The United Kingdom Has an Emerging Underclass That Needs to Be Helped.” Her essay illustrates how a review can go beyond scrutiny of the work under consideration and make its own contribution. Regarding book reviews, in this issue we offer reviews of three works pertaining to poverty: Serena Romano, of the Birkbeck Institute for Social Research of the University of London, reviews Social Policies and Social Control: New Perspectives on the “Not-So-Big Society,” edited by Malcolm Harrison and Teela Sanders; Nikolaos Zahariadis, of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, reviews Globalization and Competition: Why Some Emergent Countries Succeed While Others Fall Behind, by Luiz Carlos Bresser Pereira; Shweta Singh, of the Department of Philosophy of the University of Delhi, reviews Development, Poverty of Culture, and Social Policy, by Brij Mohan. We are proud to note that Dr. Mohan, as a contributor, reviewer, and Board Member of Poverty and Public Policy, is a key supporter of this journal. As always, we seek thoughtful reviews of relevant books, and we invite those who are interested in becoming reviewers to communicate with our Book Review Editor, Dr. Virginia Beard, at [email protected]. Max J. Skidmore Editor-in-Chief University of Missouri-Kansas City