In Appalachian Ohio, districts are 2.5 times more likely than other districts to earn "efficiency" ratings from the state education agency (SEA). District accountability performance is not adjusted for poverty or other structural threats, and affluent suburban districts are permitted to address the same standards as impoverished rural and urban…

Literature reviews show that there are 3 alternative models of the determinants of the utilization of health services: (1) unequal access; (2) culture of poverty; and, (3) cultural and social psychological differences related to ethnicity and SES. On the basis of data gathered in Los Angeles, implications of findings for pluralism in the…

Results from data samples in five nations suggest that the widowed have lower morale, generally, and are less affiliated than the married because of socioeconomic deprivation. (Author/CJ)

The labor-supply or work-effect response of married women with husband present of families eligible for or receiving subsidies such as negative income tax (Graduated Work Incentive Experiment-New Jersey, Pennsylvania) revealed significant disincentive toward labor-force participation for white wives but not for black and Spanish-speaking wives.…

Police, black militants, and college students are finding that common interests can override their conflicts, as a Police-Community Relations Program begins its third year in California. (DM)

The trend of outside agencies formulating important education issues may lead to an increased weakness in terms of educational bodies being capable of directing their own destiny. (GB)

Our society permits conditions to exist in which laws cannot be enforced. To permit conditions that breed antisocial conduct to continue is our greatest crime. (Author)

A discussion of the Commission's Report with respect to how well it realizes and seeks to impliment freedom, distributive justice, and social welfare. (JB)

Traces briefly some of the main relationships between poverty and education in Canada. (DM)

Interviews were conducted with 275 chronically unemployed persons from a large New England city to ascertain the extent of their commitment to work and the functions it performed for them. It was found that work was viewed as the legitimate source of sustenance, their commitment was as strong as that of other employed white- and blue-collar…

Patterns of work in rural British Honduras are a direct result of opportunities selected not by the individual, but by institutions over which the individual has no control. (Author/FF)

As a whole the Emergency Employment Act is: (1) a program of far too little size; (2) it was mounted, with local variances, with commendable speed; and, (3) those features of the Act which went beyond mere employement have been little implemented. (DM)

Answers questions about the approach, tells the story of how the program works in the San Diego Mission School in New Mexico, and gives information on those companies in industry that manufacture products meeting USDA specifications. (Author)