A consensus should be reached among regions on where and how the Federal government should help out. By analyzing Federal policies in the ways suggested in this article, the Federal government might avoid the waste of millions of dollars in a regional battle over public resources. (Author/AM)

The housing problems of low income groups, decisions of policymakers, federal housing programs, and section eight of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 are discussed. (JP)

Examines and evaluates the use of "active labor market policy" to attempt to make the "uneasy triangle" of full employment, price stability, and collective bargaining more tolerable while at the same time promoting the cause of greater economic equality and growth. (Author/JM)

A decisive shift toward alternative social welfare strategies - such as comprehensive national health insurance or universal income maintenance - can be accomplished only through a vast reprogramming of funds from within the social welfare sector of the budget itself. However, the major impediment to such a restructuring lies in the political and…

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)

Argues that virtually all welfare-policy change since 1961 has served not to perfect a mechanism that would simplify the system and minimize the costs of public charity but to recognize and relieve dependency; the lesson is that reform follows reality. (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)

Assesses the effectiveness of federal housing-related policies in the 1960's and early 1970's, discussing in detail the "trickle-down" process that dominates American urban development and the periods in which housing had first a low priority, and then a high priority. (JM)

Discusses a controversial benchmark study by the U.S. Department of Commerce in 1998 that supported a form of affirmative action for minority-owned small businesses, focusing on some of its questionable methodology and conclusions. Examines program specifics, the benchmark study, data collection and evaluation problems, and who is doing the…

This article examines five major arguments against day care. Several approaches already in use in other countries are suggested as answers to the problems raised in the debate over care of children of working mothers. (MC)

A review essay focusing on two recent books, The Politics of Neglect: Urban Aid from Model Cities to Revenue Sharing, by Bernard J. Frieden and Marshall Kaplan (The MIT Press), and Between the Idea and the Reality: A Study in the Origin, Fate, and Legacy of the Model Cities Program, by Charles M. Haar (Little, Brown). (JM)

Discusses what was expected of a health program, what happened in the course of its implementation, how major departures from what was expected are being explained, and what some implications are for public policy of the actual results, expected or unexpected. (Author/JM)

Economic changes among blacks during the 1960's includes benefits received from economic expansion traceable to the growth of black employment and the raising of black income and the deepening schism in the black community between those benefitted and those not benefitted. (Author/JM)