DESPITE PROBLEMS IN FUNDING AND ADMINISTRATION, THE ANTIPOVERTY PROGRAM HAS CREATED NEW LEADERS IN THE GHETTOES, DEVELOPED NEW SKILLS FOR THE POOR, AND CONTRIBUTED TO SELF CONFIDENCE AND PERSONAL INITIATIVE. FOR EXAMPLE, IN CONJUNCTION WITH AN EAST HARLEM ANTIPOVERTY PROJECT, TEN LOCAL RESIDENTS (NEGROES AND PUERTO RICANS) WERE TRAINED AS RESEARCH…

This is a study of four projects in New York City which were established with federal grants to offer library service to the disadvantaged in the area. The four programs studied are the Preschool Project of the Brooklyn Public Library, the Community Coordinator Project of the Brooklyn Public Library, the North Manhattan Project of the New York…

This document contains observations by library staff and interviews with members of the communities served about the Brooklyn Public Library preschool Project and the Queens Borough Public Library Operation Head Start. These two projects offer storybook and picture-book programs for preschool disadvantaged children and programs for their parents.…

This document contains observations of library staff and interviews with community members about the Brooklyn Public Library Community Coordinator Project and the New York Public Library North Manhattan Project. The Community Coordinator Project employs four professional librarians to take an active part in community institutions and organizations…

An invitational conference was held to bring together library system staff members immediately concerned with projects financed under the Library Services and Construction Act, representatives from the New York State Education Department, and leaders in related agencies for discussion of: (1) identified needs and projects designed to meet these…

This technical report describes the impact that a definition of poverty based on the household unit, instead of on the currently used family unit, would have on the status of unrelated individuals and on the status of those family members who live in a household in which unrelated individuals are present. This information is based on a special…

The hard-to-employ, both urban and rural, share common characteristics of inadequate income, slum housing, inferior education, no medical attention, and lack of real job opportunities. The deficiencies dove-tail, and families are often afflicted with all. The picture may seem bleak, but there is optimism in reclamation of the so-called…

This report discusses the five-year history of the Mountain-Plains Education and Economic Development Program. In broad terms, the program is viewed as a human development program and not simply as a technical training program. The adult population it serves is defined as rural disadvantaged, and the primary selection criterion is…

A study of black migration, examining the aspirations and behavior of homemakers in metropolitan and nonmetropolitan Texas, was made in this report. Data were collected from interviews with 553 homemakers. Factors examined in the analysis included type of residential area, homemaker's age, tenure status of the household, reported place of…

THIS DOCUMENT IS AN ADDRESS WHICH DISCUSSES THE PROBLEMS RELATED TO INDIAN EDUCATION AND SEVERAL PROGRAMS WHICH ATTEMPT TO OVERCOME THESE PROBLEMS. THE PROBLEMS PRESENTED INCLUDE THE INDIAN'S EXTREME POVERTY, HIS LOW ASPIRATION LEVEL, HIS SELF-IMAGE, INDIAN ACCULTURATION, AND SOCIAL DISCRIMINATION AGAINST THE INDIAN. THE PROGRAMS DISCUSSED ARE--A…

Based upon an ecological model of poverty, 5 scales to measure antecedent conditions and resultant attitudinal configurations of the poverty situation in a predominantly Black community in the rural South were established. (Author/NQ)

This paper explores the roots of the war on poverty by focusing on factors such as the rise of the empowerment issue, delinquency, and changes among black and white youth. It is suggested that the war on poverty had unintended consequences that have kept the empowerment issue and other important issues alive. (Author/AM)

The purpose of this study is to examine the concept of "municipal overburden", the way it has been operationalized by some states, and its relationship to school district fiscal capacity. (Author)

This paper examines the informal economy and its relationship to commonly held theories of industrial development. Evidence is presented which contradicts the prevailing assumption that informal economies will disappear with the advance of modern industrial growth. (Author/JDH)

Describes the adventures of a South Carolina teacher who moonlighted for 10 years as a home teacher for pregnant, injured, and other housebound students. Desite the intrinsic rewards involved, she eventually resigned due to low pay and burnout. Specific students and their problems are described. (MLH)