Defines the concept of direct job creation and identifies primary government activities in this area during the l970s. Discusses the political and economic rationale for direct job creation measures and possible unintended side effects of such policy interventions. Suggests alternative approaches to the problems of direct public provision of jobs.…

Presents observations and comments based on a large-scale field study of youth unemployment. Discusses the inappropriateness and futility of some government programs and the needs of young people that are frequently forgotten in view of institutional demands. (MK)

Last year's national student strike showed how skillfully mass reaction to legitimate grievances can be redirected to an unproductive channel where it could be allowed to run itself out, resulting in frustrated extreme reactions and disappointed apathy. (DM)

Society's preference for dependency reduction over poverty reduction in dealing with the lower classes stands in the way of greater anti-poverty impact of social policy. Discusses four approaches to poverty policy, their effectiveness, and the poverty assumptions they are based on. Examines why a workfare strategy could be effective. (PS)

Holds that, despite their apparent divergence from the Reagan Administration's views, arguments for allowing the severely disabled to die actually share with that administration a "laissez-faire morality" and the belief that the government should not be responsible for providing for people unable to provide for themselves. (GC)

Suggests that community service second careers could play an important role in deferring social security retirement benefits, but that the motivation has to be for more than a wish to relieve pressures on social security. (Author/AM)

Suggests that what is needed is a more balanced federalism which will increase local community development under special revenue sharing with a new generation of comprehensive and more responsive categorical programs. (Author/AM)

This article, taken from the Effective Schools Development in Education Act of 1984, describes the effective schools movement and sketches a representative example of an effective schools program. It also gives the aims of the proposed act and urges more research on the dynamics of school effectiveness program implementation and impact. (RDN)

An indication of the rearrangements of power, privilege, income and wealth distribution that are necessary for the establishment of full employment with price stability; involving policies of guaranteed public service jobs, income maintenance, prices and wages controls, a redistributive taxation system, and the eventual "socialization of…

Children's rights workers may seek to maintain the status quo, lacking the power to change the social structure in order to effectively achieve children's rights. (DM)

Holds that Federal deregulation and the return of educational finance and decision making to the local level will exacerbate, rather than begin to solve, the nation's educational problems. (GC)

How to expand to a larger scale a working community-service program using federal money is considered. Planning time is an essential, as are a focus on program culture and technical support. Adapting programs, rather than prescribing solutions, should help in the cautious move toward a national program. (SLD)

Triage policy is the exclusion of severely declining urban areas from services and programs on the grounds that the intensity of their needs cannot be met and the provision of services is therefore inefficient. Community groups must insist that severity of need, human benefits, and community protection be the priorities for allocation of funds.…

The Administration's economic policy has caused massive inflation, unemployment, and record deficits. Full employment and production should be the cornerstone of government policy. Strengthening of the Full Employment and Balanced Growth Act, reorganizing the Federal Reserve Board, and amending the 1981 Tax Act are ways to achieve economic…

Analyzes similarities and differences between the educational views of so-called New Right and centrist conservatives. Holds that New Right policies would be an unmitigated disaster for our schools and society, while centrist policies would simply fail on several grounds. (CJM)