An overview of the level and distribution of income for a sample of Standard Metropolitan Statistical Areas (SMSAs) during the period 1959-1969, using data on pretax pretransfer incomes published by the Internal Revenue Service, is presented in this paper. Several results are described. (1) The level and distribution of income vary widely among…

Traditional patterns of interaction between blacks and whites, particularly in the labor market, have been altered. Racial barriers have crumbled under the weight of the political, social, and economic changes of the civil rights era. A new set of obstacles has emerged from basic structural shifts in the economy. (Author/GC)

Addresses the question of change in the processes of socioeconomic allocation for men and women from 1962 to 1973. Data drawn from the 1962 bench mark study of socioeconomic stratification and from the 1973 replicate are examined for evidence which signifies whether or not lessening of sexual inequalities in status and socioeconomic opportunity…

The present study, based on recent data and methods that control for estimated measurement error structures, finds that social background plays a similar role for Whites and Blacks in determining educational attainment. (Author/LMO)

Africa and Third World countries do not include women in economic development projects. Women have benefited little from the minimum development done so far. These governments' lack of recognition and expansion of women's critical activities in producing and distributing food and cash crops will perpetuate underdevelopment and poverty. (PS)

Fifty heads of household in a progressive urban area and 50 in a nonprogressive urban area were interviewed in a study concerned with analyzing the problems of adults and ways to solve the problems. Ways adult educators could help with these problems are suggested. (CT)

Discusses the use of tax increment financing to fund public redevelopment or urban rehabilitation projects and the opportunity for school districts to take advantage of such projects to supplement reduced property tax revenues in areas of declining valuation. (PGD)

Presents a typology of institutional racism: (1) pre-requisites which exclude dis-proportionate numbers of blacks; (2) freezing, which occurs when standards are rigorously applied to all applicants, but only after most whites qualified during a period of less stringent requirements, and, (3) mapping, consisting of drawing geographical lines so as…

The lessons in this 3-part series are intended to provide students with a basic understanding of the relationship between the United States and Mexico, with emphasis on multiple perspectives, conflict and cooperation, and interdependence. This curriculum unit, Part 3, examines the economic interdependence of the United States and Mexico to learn…

Critically reviews the current combined writing of Moynihan, Glazer, Herrnstein, Armor, Banfield, Jensen and others, discussing historical perspectives on inequality, the idea of equality, access to schooling as a means toward equality, unequal economic opportunity, and misrepresentations of the adequacies of the Black family. (JM)

An examination of the U.S. and Israel points up ways in which the emphasis on egalitarianism in the founding political doctrines of each has determined much in its institutional practices and patterns of behavior, and the repeated efforts of each to "equalize" hierarchies imposed seemingly by social necessity. (Author/JM)

Discusses four steps which need to be taken if career education is to deal effectively with the multiplicity of career choices that exist in our culture: clarifying the primary goals, enlarging the target population; identifying the means for achieving the primary goal, and enumerating the potential positive consequences. (JM)

Discusses some issues which are relevant to considerations of what career education is supposed to be. (JM)

Describes an aquacultural project, fish-farming, planned and carried out in the Pacific Northwest by the Lummi Indian Tribal Enterprise, and funded by the OEO. (JM)

Aspects of the relationship reviewed are: education and earnings; social and economic mobility across generations; education and political participation; and, education and crime. Overwhelming evidence supports direct relationship between post-school opportunity, performance, and educational attainment. (DB)