The aged become more like a minority group in industrial society. Trends are demonstrated via comparison of similarity indexes from 1940 through 1969. (JM)

Describes Project Step-Up, a demonstration program in job-related, adult basic education, its impact on the problems of the employed poor, and presents some idea of its future impact. (AN)

The majority of artists cannot support themselves on their earnings from their creations. Most resort to other types of employment, which range from teaching to truck driving, to meet their financial needs. (CK)

A recently constructed New York elementary school is an example of how cities are finding ways to provide quality education for children in facilities that assume the additional role of community centers during after-school hours. (MF)

Demonstrates the need for flexibility in poverty programs to avoid rigid rules and biased evaluation resulting from cultural differences. (BH)

It was concluded from the findings that the boys and girls studied did maintain a consistently high-level frame of reference. It was observed that boys tended to hold slightly higher educational and income goals and to demonstrate a higher level of consistency across goal levels in their frame of reference. (Author)

Describes a three-phase program designed by the Anne Arundel County Community Action Agency to help the rural poor; includes development of human resources, housing, and economic resources. (JM)

This paper examines the American experience of combining aid and services in public assistance, the parallel British experience, and some aspects of professional practice in order to highlight the implications of the money and morality issue for social welfare policy and social work practice. (Author)

A brief survey of the inception, organization, objectives, implications and effectiveness of Project Head Start. (MBM)

Discusses the effects of migrations on urbanization, and the resulting ecological segregation. Conflict is considered to result from competition of groups for scarce resources. Cooperative revitalization of downtown business areas is recommended. (DM)

Data from a long term Participant observation study of an all-Negro public housing project suggest that the aspirations of lower class people are conventional, yet unattainable via use of subcultural coping techniques. (JM)

Argues that many present programs equate economic improvement with ethnic assimilation, and are based upon values of individualism, although the interests of both the cultural minorities and the nation would be served by the reinforcement of ethnicity. (JM)