Provides a description of the physical and cultural barriers which have prevented the Sioux from adopting a more advanced economy. (Author/CP)

The authors of this article relate their thoughts about ethnic conflicts in general. They confront guidance personnel with their dealing with culturally different clients. (Author)

Findings of this study strongly question the wisdom of a policy of benign neglect" as a solution to America's racial problems. (DM)

A keynote speech at the CLA Convention, Boston 1970 which presents an overview of the problems, challenges, and opportunities that await the world in the 1970's. (MF)

Interprets data on Black social mobility during the 1960s and 1970s as revealing a pattern of social stratification characterized by a tendency toward an intergenerational perpetuation of the economic distress of poor Black families. (MK)

The economic, physical, mental, and cultural problems that affect women refugees around the world are doubly critical because of the critical role women play in the family. Failure to resolve these problems will further damage the community as a whole. (Author/GC)

A conference on child labor sponsored by the International Labour Organization and UNICEF identified strategies for eliminating child labor and developing cooperative programs to assess the effects of child labor. (JOW)

Decries the contradictions of a corporate state that benefits from poverty and promotes "family values" while devaluing the life-affirming child-rearing work done in private. Argues that life-affirming perspectives should guide adult educators to unlearn "bottom-line" thinking in their educational efforts. (SK)

Discusses out-of-home care for children in India including the social, emotional, and cultural challenges of out-of-home care and the need to develop individuation. (RJC)

Classified bibliography for Appalachian studies lists 121 books, journal articles, government documents, and titles in "Dissertation Abstracts," published in 1994. Categories with four or more entries include coal, industry, and labor; description and travel; economic conditions and development; environment and natural history; ethnicity…

Investigated how taxes and public income transfers changed income, income distribution, and poverty rates. Transfers were more powerful than taxes in equalizing income distribution. Poverty reduction through non-means-tested transfer programs was more effective among elderly people, whites, and married-couple families. Poverty reduction through…

Reviews research documenting complex process in which macroeconomic and family demographic factors are associated with economic distress among individuals and families. Shows four components of economic distress--employment instability, employment uncertainty, economic deprivation, and economic strain--to be negatively related to individual…