Based on presentations given at a conference sponsored by the Social Welfare Research Institute, University of Kentucky (May 17-20, 1970), and at the annual meeting of the National Rehabilitation Association (San Diego, California, September, 1970). (Author)

Guidelines for ending hunger and malnutrition due to poverty in the United States. (NH)

Stresses the significance of rural development oriented toward anti-poverty for developing countries, indicating the need to identify the educational implications of such a strategy. (Author/MP)

Examines the issues surrounding the controversial Workfare program, which establishes work effort as a requirement for receipt of welfare benefits. (SK)

Examines how the livestock reduction plan enforced by the Federal government in the 1930s resulted in drastically negative ecological, economic, and health consequences for the Navajo people. Describes manifestations of Navajo criticism and resistance. (GC)

Analyzes low literacy levels among Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) applicants in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Discusses how cutbacks in CETA funding will adversely affect attempts to decrease illiteracy among unemployed, low-income, urban adults. (GC)

Reports the prevalence of persistent absence from schools in Sheffield over a three-year period. The schools studied were all in relatively disadvantaged areas and absence increased sharply in the students' final year. While persistent absentees are high risk for delinquency, most were not known to the police as offenders. (JOW)

Reports findings from an experiment comparing ex-offenders who received unemployment benefits immediately upon release from prison with those who received job counseling and with control groups. During a one year follow-up period, the relationships among unemployment payments, employment, arrests, and resulting time spent in prison were studied.…

Discusses elements of an implementation methodology for the removal of poverty in India. Includes background, methodology, aggregation of demands, economics of the strategy, complementary activities and infrastructure, mechanics of implementation, and monitoring. (CT)

Developmental education can play a positive role in improving the situation of the urban poor. Change can be brought about by people who are educated to understand, appreciate and analyze the underlying causes of their condition, and to discover solutions. (SK)

A study panel recommended new ways for the U.S. government to define the poverty threshold, including measures of adequate food, clothing, and shelter for a family of four, with regular updating procedures and an equivalence scale to adjust the threshold for other family types. (SK)

Studied the implementation of school-based management in 30 of the poorest school districts in New Jersey (the Abbott districts). Findings show that genuine autonomy has been usurped by increased state power and authority, and that state elites allow little opportunity for capacity building at the district level. The level of democratization has…

Examines the relationship between poverty and family instability during childhood on prosocial behavior (volunteerism) during late adolescence. Data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY), including mother and family records, indicate that adolescents, particularly males, from single parent families are less likely than those from…

Uses data concerning recipients' employment, receipt of aid, and poverty status to develop a typology of adaptations by welfare recipients. Results show that welfare reforms launched in 1996 moved dependent recipients out of welfare but had no effect on working recipients' chances of leaving welfare. Discusses factors that promoted a change in…

Oxfam is using a sustainable livelihoods framework in its antipoverty programs. Identifying assets and asset gaps illuminated gender difference in asset bases and survival strategies as well as the huge impact of the state on livelihood choices. (SK)