Data from 878 older persons in 28 communities in the USA were analyzed in order to determine the most important factors contributing to residents' community satisfaction. The most important predictors of community satisfaction were perceived community safety, satisfaction with the individual dwelling unit, and satisfaction with recreational and…

Unprecedented growth of the typical American family's resources since World War II have had effects upon life style, personal fulfillment, consumption of goods and services, and freedom of occupational choice. It is suggested that the time may have come for concern with nonmaterial elements that determine the quality of life. For journal…

The future economic value of college-going is examined in a reply to the pessimistic view offered by Freeman and Hollomon in a 1975 article. It is shown that the issue will remain urgent for years to come, but that the social return on the college investment has not declined. (LBH)

This paper looks at changes to the student body and student living standards since the introduction of the Canada Student Loans Program in 1964. Overall, it is clear that since the Canada Student Loans Program was launched 40 years ago, there has been a significant widening of educational opportunity. (Contains 5 footnotes, 5 figures and 8 tables.…

Examines the destruction of the economic world of the Comanche, Kowa, Cheyenne and Arapaho, focusing on some of their capacities and early achievements in relationship to their economic base, and viewing the impact of the changes brought by the white man. (Author/JM)

Argues that the distinction between discrimination and genocide made by the authors is a very slender reed upon which to hang an argument: economic genocide'' reduces to two successive economic dislocations, generated by land hunger and supporting government policy. (Author/JM)

Discusses the interrelated crises in population growth, natural resources, and environmental quality. Major problems include population control, redirection of technology, closed resource cycles, equitable opportunity distribution and prosperity. Population growth is regarded as causing a disportionate world-wide negative environmental impact.…

Research supported by the Cooperative Research Branch of the U.S. Office of Education (8418, S.U. and O.S.U.), and by the National Institute of Mental Health (MH-08382).

Project conducted under a contract between the University of Kentucky Research Foundation and the Office of Economic Opportunity.

The "old-old" (80+), needing the most health and domiciliary care, will increase twice as fast by the year 2000 as the "young-old" (65-79). Half of the elderly women in 2000 may be maintaining a home apart from relatives. Few elderly persons now live with unrelated adults of the opposite sex. (Author)

Follows trends in American university faculty salaries and duties since World War II. Concludes that the job market is tighter than ever before, teaching loads are higher, and there is little encouragement for research. (Author/DB)

Economic assumptions, once incorporated into how a person perceived reality and constructed arguments, exclude the object of ethical options which is the good. This thesis was developed based on the philosophy of Leopold Kohr. Includes discussion of ancient Greek concepts of tonos, ethos, and music and a later fracture that led to tempered sounds.…

The educators who have the most visible position in the school community are principals. Superintendents and school board members stand out in the crowd, but the public tends to see principals as the credible source of how budgets will filter to the classroom level and ultimately benefit children for life. In other words, the public believes that…

This paper examines the changes in the quality of life of poor households in Hong Kong in the late 1990s by analyzing their levels of expenditure, income security and poverty before and after 1997. Though there have been significant increases in the levels of expenditure among CSSA recipients, the expenditure among these poorest households in Hong…

The Republic of Moldova proclaimed its independence in 1991. Like other republics of the former USSR, during the last decade of the Twentieth Century, Moldova initiated social and economic reforms aimed at the country's transition to a market economy. A series of relevant social changes were achieved in Moldova but, contrary to initial estimates,…