This speech described the development and current status of the Canada NewStart Program, in which specially created corporations have been conducting action research on disadvantaged groups (largely Indians and Metis) in remote areas of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba, and for undereducated persons in economically depressed areas of Prince…

Although a disproportionate number of children having difficulties in school come from families of impoverished socioeconomic backgrounds, it cannot be assumed that cultural deprivation causes school problems without specifying how, when, and why. The application of psychological and other social scientific techniques to investigate these matters…

The land-grant universities, through Cooperative Extension Services, have performed the most important university outreach function in America. The Smith-Lever Act of 1914 stated that the function of Cooperative Extension was to provide practical instruction in subjects related to agriculture and home economics. Subsequent amendments to the Act…

In reviewing the attempts to conduct Federal antipoverty programs with "maximum feasible participation" by residents of the communities involved, Daniel Moynihan describes the origin of this provision in sociological theory, then discusses the nature and the internal contradictions of the great national effort at social change conceived under the…

In this study of the current state of evaluation of health programs, which emphasizes the relationship between health status and poverty, four health programs are examined: Family Planning, Neighborhood Health Centers, Migrant Health Programs, and Comprehensive Health Services for Children and Youth. The study shows that the current health…

By examining the relationship between culture and the formation of personality, this paper attempts to define and describe the "culture of poverty." While recognizing that many studies and findings exist which support the culture of poverty concept, the paper also recognizes that there are too many unanswered questions to state unequivocally that…

This report describes the local economy of a rural area in South Carolina at the time a brick plant was established and examines the shortrun impact of the plant through its first year of operation in 1963. During its first year, the plant provided jobs for 25 of the area's unskilled laborers, who had been working seasonally in declining farm,…

The report presents a profile of poverty groups, based on characteristics of household heads, which could be useful in formulating and evaluating assistance programs for the poor. Rural households in the Coastal Plain of northeastern South Carolina were grouped into 5 mutually exclusive categories determined by the age, disability, and sex of the…

This book offers a concise description and critique of the government's program to feed needy families. It is suggested that food programs have failed for two basic reasons: (1) they have been designed to meet the needs of food producers; and, (2) they have been administered to please a public anxious to deny help to the "unworthy poor." It is…

This paper stems from the renewed interest of the Committee for Economic Development (CED) in problems of urban poverty along with a desire to know more about the dimensions of poverty--who the poverty-stricken are, where they are located, how many they are, and why they are poor. The author illuminates and clarifies these questions through…

Rural America is currently facing an overwhelming problem, the need for decent housing. Even though small towns and rural areas of Southern America have been undergoing drastic change over the past 2 decades, over one-half of all inadequate rural housing is located in the South. Substandard housing is, for the most part, inhabited by families with…

Information about the rural Appalachian culture as told by longtime residents of Rabun Gap County, Georgia, is presented in this book. In many cases the material is in the words of the resident and additional commentary is provided by the high school student conducting the interview. Instructions are given for making items often made at home when…

Compiled by the Peoples Appalachian Research Collective, this social science reader on Appalachia was designed to enable students, teachers, workers, and all people to understand the Appalachian region. The document consists of selected readings classified under the following major headings: An Introduction to the Appalachian region (why…

Among the problems facing the black aged are less income resulting from less education and less choice in work opportunities, housing, and negative self attitudes. (AM)

Identifies and discusses potential instructional tools related to subsistence farming in Latin America. Instructional aids discussed include games, films, annotated bibliographies of audiovisual instructional aids, and an innovative program developed by Encyclopaedia Britannica Educational Corporation which allows teachers to construct their own…