Proposes a social service model based on Community Progress, an antipoverty program in New Haven, Connecticut, aimed at helping the poor achieve upward social mobility by facilitating their use of existing opportunities in employment, housing, and education. (Author)

Summarizes Federal aid to education proposed and subsequently adopted during the administration of Presidents Truman, Eisenhower and Kennedy. (MF)

Report of a pilot project that trained 542 unemployed or underemployed persons in 5 cities to become child care workers. Discusses rewards and problems of the project. (DR)

Discusses major threats to the world's environment (nuclear war, population growth, poverty, energy abuse, and toxic wastes). Indicating that world leaders are lacking in competence and the will to face these long-range global issues, offers suggestions to these leaders and others in resolving global environmental issues. (JN)

The relation of wealth to religion is discussed. Specifically examined are spiritual reasons for poverty, economic development and religion, and the moral values of capitalism. (RM)

There are concrete ways to bring international concerns into classrooms. The answer to whether we want to do so can only emerge out of civic and professional debate. Lists of organizations and resource materials about hunger and related problems are provided. (MLF)

Suggests the effects of poverty may be more debilitating on rural youth than on urban youth due to differences in background, i.e., lower educational level of parents, lower family income, cultural isolation, fewer social services, and marriage at an earlier age. Discusses health problems, housing inadequacies, and fatherless families. (AH)

The author responds to criticism of his book, "The Declining Significance of Race," focusing on the policy implications of his analysis that economic factors, rather than race, form the crux of the problems faced by the Black lower class and underclass. (GC)

Demonstrates that the number of low income or "underclass" Black families has increased over the past decade, while the proportion of low income Black families in the general population has remained relatively unchanged. However, there does not seem to be a widening economic cleavage within the Black community itself. (Author/GC)

Evidence suggests that living and labor conditions have improved very little among agricultural laborers and are particularly hopeless among migrants. Since the government, food producers, industry, and consumers are all beneficiaries of the present farm system, it is unlikely that farm workers will be able to unionize and control their own…

Describes the high cultural level of native American Indian populations at the time of conquest. Illustrates how cultural breakdown and demographic decimation have resulted from systematic policies that focused on exploiting natural resources at the expense of native peoples. (GC)

Reviews research on success factors in early childhood education and explains how this research can help develop a model of early childhood in developing regions such as the West Indies. Topics discussed include curriculum development, family involvement, objectives, community development, and child development. (DB)

These interviews, edited from tapes made in the field, convey, albeit optimistically, the harsh realities of poverty and withal, the resilience and strength that some elderly can clearly muster. (Author)

Estimates are made of absolute poverty and employment under the hypothesis that existing trends continue. Concludes that while the number of people in absolute poverty is not likely to decline by 2000, the proportion will fall. Jobs will have to grow 3.9% per year in developing countries to achieve full employment. (JOW)