Discusses factors accounting for poverty trends since 1965: government transfers, human resource and employment policies, macroeconomic conditions, demographic change, and changing education. Criticizes the current transfer system (including social insurance and welfare programs) for adverse effects on economic and social behavior. Available from…

Outlines the magnitude of unemployment and underemployment in Jamaica, offers some explanations of the unemployment problem, and some policy proposals on how it might be combated. (CT)

If the immigration pattern of the 1970's persists in the 1980's, California can expect, annually, approximately 250,000 new immigrants, the majority from Latin America and Asia. Of these immigrants, concentrated in the working ages, 60 percent will be poorly educated and generally unskilled refugees and illegals and will be potentially heavy users…