Human resources and labor markets;: Labor and manpower in the American economy

Levitan, Sar A.

Harper&Row

Human resources and labor markets: Labor and manpower in the American economy

Human Resources and Labor Markets: Employment and Training in the American Economy

Business & Money

Marshall, Ray

Mangum, Garth L.

Human Resources

HarperCollins, Publishers

Big Brother's Indian programs, with reservations,

McGraw=Hill

Beginning with the 1960s and the Great Society and the Legacy, the text moves on to the Goals of a Compassionate Society. There is a list of sources grouped by chapters. Includes a list of tables. The Index is most helpful for a researcher.

The Promise of Greatness

Politics & Social Sciences

Sociology

Harvard Univ Pr

What is the right social policy for the future? Sar A. Levitan and Robert Taggart have written a book that dispassionately examines recent social programs. They respond to the fashionable arguments that question the results of government intervention and the need to correct social and economic ills. They weigh the charges that new programs have been wasteful, ineffective, and even counterproductive. The authors disprove the notion that recent social programs have failed, that recipients of aid have been hurt more than helped, or that the means and the ends of the last decade’s social policies were misconceived.They base their conclusions upon data gathered by a host of governmental agencies as well as by other scholarly studies. Among their major findings:― The expansion of welfare will not continue indefinitely since most of those in need have been reached. In a healthy economy welfare costs will stabilize. In spite of its shortcomings, welfare has resulted in a more equitable, comprehensive system of income protection.― Medicare and Medicaid have not contributed to a national “health crisis” but have delivered health care to millions who might otherwise have been unable to afford it.― Housing assistance has been unfairly condemned. While changes are warranted the concepts are sound and the benefits undeniable.― Federal programs for vocational training, job placement, remedial education, and other services have a high payoff for the individuals involved and for society as a whole.― Federal efforts have been instrumental in the substantial progress made by minorities.Levitan and Taggart consistently document effective, positive achievements by government to promote the general welfare and to redress many of the nation’s most serious social and economic ills stemming from poverty, discrimination, and old age. They argue that an affluent and compassionate society has the ability and responsibility to extend rather than to retrench its basic system of protection for those who cannot make it on their own. If progress toward a just society is to continue, the new agenda must begin with a judicious and comprehensive reappraisal of last decade’s reforms. The Promise of Greatness provides such a perspective. Based upon a sound analysis of past legislation, it will certainly be an indispensable guide to the future policies that shape this country.

Harvard University Press

The Quest for a Federal Manpower Partnership

Zickler, Joyce K.

Politics & Government

Still a dream: The changing status of Blacks since 1960

Social Sciences

Still a Dream: The Changing Status of Blacks Since 1960

In 1964, Lyndon Johnson declared an "unconditional war on poverty," launching a variety of new antipoverty programs and enhancing existing ones. This war is still being fought. But with what success? And at what cost? Incorporating new data from the 2000 census, the eighth edition of Programs in Aid of the Poor provides an up-to-date, comprehensive overview of current federal programs aimed at alleviating poverty in the United States. The authors focus on programs that offer cash support, provide goods and services to poor people, address the well-being of children and youth, prepare young people to earn above-poverty incomes, and offer adults a second chance to earn their way out of poverty. They also discuss the definition of poverty, identify who the poor are, and generalize the causes of poverty.
"To an extent," the authors find, "we have prosecuted our war against poverty the way Senator George Aiken of Vermont advised that we do in Vietnam: 'Declare victory and go home.' Yet the war against poverty has not been abandoned. Skirmishes continue, with widely fluctuating commitment."
Co-authors Garth and Stephen Mangum and Andrew Sum have also prepared a companion volume, The Persistence of Poverty in the United States, analyzing the underlying causes of poverty and its persistence in America.

Programs in Aid of the Poor

Mangum, Stephen L.

Sum, Andrew M.

Economics

Johns Hopkins University Press

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