Highlights some of the problems presented by college student clients who have been termed developmentally deprived individuals, who seem to have been emotionally stunted at a chronologically earlier developmental level. Defines the developmentally deprived client and presents strategies for intervention. (ABL)

Presents a conceptual framework that incorporates the notion of relative deprivation to explain the perceived financial adequacy among the elderly. Financial satisfaction is directly related to relative deprivation while income only indirectly affects one's sense of financial well-being. (Author)

Elaborates on the relative deprivation model proposed by Liang and Fairchild (1979), and explores the relationship between income and financial satisfaction. Financial satisfaction is influenced by relative deprivation and distributive justice. Race and age also relate to social comparison and financial satisfaction. (Author)

Reports on the impact on malnutrition of Mexico's Sistema de Alementacion Mexicana (SAM) program, which tried to make the country self-sufficient in basic foods. Concludes that the food problem in Mexico is not so much one of production as it is a problem of distribution and consumption. (PS)

This report discusses the education of Latinos, Blacks, and low-income students in California. Over the past 10 years, California's society has shifted from a predominantly White to a predominantly ethnic society. The number of the state's people living in poverty has increased, and poverty has been concentrating in big cities. The achievement gap…

Since 1973, families headed by someone younger than 30 years of age have experienced a collapse in the value of their incomes, a surge in poverty, and an erosion of employer-provided health benefits. This report details the deep economic losses among young families with children and warns of consequences from these losses for young and old…

Post-literacy is all the means and activities that allow persons who have recently become literate to make use of their skills and to increase and deepen the knowledge acquired. There are many kinds of literacy. What they all have in common is the merciless test of the durability of literacy's effect: After 1, 2, or 5 years, what will the…