Describes how an agency in East Washington remained in operation by abandoning the neighborhood-center concept for the issue-group approach to poverty. (DM)

Describes a program which provided an unexpected opportunity for a group of poor elderly men to earn a decent living for the first time in years. (DM)

Focuses on the activities of an Oklahoma group which organized a corporation to help start small businesses in an eight-county area. (DM)

Deals with an Office of Economic Opportunity-funded Neighborhood Employment Center with an affiliated job training center in Massachusetts. (DM)

Describes the problems and progress toward cultural understanding between professionals and community persons in operating the Watts Health Center. (DM)

The urban impacts of the Program for Better Jobs and Income, the recent but unsuccessful attempt to reform the welfare system, are analyzed in this paper. The proposed results of this program indicate that these urban impacts would have been minimal, but consistent with an urban policy that seeks to improve the economic viability of distressed…

This evaluation report covers all ESEA Title I projects in the New York City Public Schools. Background material includes a descriptive overview of the school system; sources, purposes, and legal functions of funding; eligibility and selections of participants; overall objectives of the programs; and, planning and administration of programs. Each…