These four reports of recent research and policy studies are the four top-rated papers from a national competition open to graduate students enrolled in doctoral programs in various social disciplines or recipients of degrees in 1980. In the first monograph, "Job Skills and Youth Unemployment," historical and current evidence refuting…

This working paper assembles chapters written by onsite researchers about program implementation in each of seven cities included in the Job-Plus Community Revitalization Initiative for Public Housing Families. This report, which provides a "snapshot" of each site, documents the nature and extent of implementation as of that point in…