This interdisciplinary conference was intended to make employment service personnel in two Appalachian states more aware of the social and psychological aspects of poverty and the training and employment needs of the poor. Papers are included by Robert J. Lampman, Frank H. Cassell, Louis A. Ferman, Charles C. Killingsworth, Robert C. Couthorn, and…

Basing his discussion on an earlier paper Dr. Charles J. Erasmus ("Community Development and the Encogido Syndrome"), the author argues that community development should be defined in a more restricted fashion than has been done; that the techniques and limitations of the community development worker should be more clearly recognized;…

Unemployment insurance is the principal income program for workers who lose their jobs, however, it does not provide adequate income, nor does it provide for all unemployed persons. Because many different programs are operated for this purpose, they tend to have a fragmented effect and leave many unemployed persons with no income support. This…

Examines the impact of medicaid coverage on access to and utilization of health care by poverty children during 1983 in Iowa. Survey results showed that poverty children receive less well care from private pediatricians and see the same health professional less often than do nonpoverty children. (SA)

Presents a study of 207 employed AFDC recipients whose benefits were terminated or reduced by 1981 federal policy changes. Findings report respondents' source of income, household characteristics, employment history, expense patterns, child care, coping and social support strategies, health and health care, and psychosocial outlook on life.…

Reviews the major enactments of federal income transfer programs, Federal payments programs presently in force, Federal manpower training programs, and recent developments in Congress. Presents a pro and con discussion by several Senators and Representatives on the Adminsistration's current plan to terminate the Federal anti-poverty agency.…

Evaluates two programs in the Johnsonian "war against poverty": one "macroeconomic," attempting to create an environment of greater job opportunities and higher employment; the other "microeconomic," investing in low-income workers to raise their relative earning power. (Author/JM)

Examines two goals of anti-poverty programs beyond reducing the number of people in income poverty and increasing public expenditures disproportionately benefiting the poor: that inequality of income should be substantially narrowed, and that benefits for the poor must meet their needs. (Author/JM)

Describes an industry-sponsored day care center, the Urban Affairs Child Development Center, in the heart of Houston's Fifth Ward poverty area. (CS)

Comments on the present status of black progress written by two members of Congress: the representative of the nineteenth congressional district, New York and chairman of the Black Caucus' Subcommittee on Welfare and Drug Abuse; and the representative of the fifth congressional district, Georgia, respectively. (JM)

Describes the activities of the Southwest Florida Self-Help Housing, Inc., serving three counties in the Florida migrant and seasonal farming area, first funded by the Office of Economic Opportunity out of its Migrant Division funds in 1967. (JM)

Assessment of four-years' survey data on trends and indicators of students' attitudes toward government policy on social issues. (IR)

Discusses how a series of experimental health programs that have improved medical care for people in poor Nashville communities have also solved some of Meharry Medical College's financial problems. (WM)

Argues that the expert is partisan, inexpert, and manipulated. Concludes "that American society is not operated in a rational, technologically based way. In self-help activities, in the thrust toward consumer advocacy, in new notions of causation and cure, a more humane and comprehensive understanding of our social environment is being offered."…