Reviews Canadian anti-poverty programs according to which of five dimensions is dominant in their activities--biological and demographic, geographical and ecological, structural, psychological and cultural, and/or poverty-as-social-problem. (JM)

Examines and evaluates the use of "active labor market policy" to attempt to make the "uneasy triangle" of full employment, price stability, and collective bargaining more tolerable while at the same time promoting the cause of greater economic equality and growth. (Author/JM)

Analyzes the battle over day care, which seems today particularly violent as the earlier group of its proponents has been joined by an active and sometimes militant group of women's liberationists who believe that the country should provide 24 hour services for all children, and by newly formed community groups. (Author/JM)

The concept of the moral failure of the poor which was rooted in pre-colonial European assumptions, and modern American racism had become intimately entwined. Attitudes toward the poor in the 1960's simply reflected the knowledge, concerns, problems, and prejudices of the day. (Author)

The implications for social planning are discussed in relation to income maintenance, rehabilitation, and work opportunity and job adaptation programs, with particular emphasis on the need for early contact and coordination of services. (Editor)

The restructuring of the Job Corps and its integration with other manpower programs is described. (BH)

Argues that the major problem of the core areas of our cities is their lack of economic value: community control is an issue only because nothing more worth fighting about remains. (JM)

Youth Corps tutors help preschoolers build on lessons from popular television show. (Editor)

Argues that economics-oriented poverty programs are designed to preserve the social status quo and that programs designed to alleviate poverty and end discrimination against black and female workers must attack the political basis of these problems. (JM)

Examines the implications of poverty research for the goal orientation of American society, and for social science and social scientists. (JM)

Advocates that the Current Population Survey (CPS) be redesigned to permit valid longitudinal studies, that the CPS include questions to evaluate poverty programs, that a common sampling framework be designed for the CPS and operating agencies serving the poor to assure that links between CPS and other data can be established, and that samples of…

The Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia upheld the validity of the Internal Revenue Service ruling that allows nonprofit hospitals to qualify as charitable institutions without requiring them to provide services at reduced rates for persons unable to pay. This is a reversal of existing law regarding tax exempt status for charitable…

Examines the reasons behind the failure of poverty programs such as the War on Poverty, the Comprehensive Employment Training Administration (CETA), and the Great Society. Argues that ghettoized high school students need community action programs that will give them jobs while they are still in school. (FMW)