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A Decade of Federal Antipoverty Programs: Achievements, Failures, and Lessons presents papers on the war on poverty, dealing with its origins, its education, health, and income maintenance programs, and its community action, legal services, and antidiscrimination policies. The book discusses poverty and social policy in the 1960s and 1970s; the social and political context of the war on poverty; and a decade of policy developments in the income-maintenance system. The text also describes a decade of policy developments in improving education and training for low-income populations; a decade of

The period after 1965 saw a rapid growth of interest in the application of social science knowledge & techniques to the design & evaluation of public policy. This trend was the natural outgrowth of the commitment of the Kennedy-Johnson administration to the belief that science & rational thought could lead to more efficient, effective, & humane government. Much has been written on the effect of policy analysis & program evaluation on the making of public policy, most of it emphasizing the difficulty of altering a political process that moves in accord with its own power relationships & processes. Here, focus is on another aspect of this development: its impact on the community of social scientists & applied researchers in Us, government, & research centers & firms. 1 Appendix, 18 References. AA

Robert H. Haveman beschreibt die Entwicklung der Sozialausgaben in den Vereinigten Staaten und die Auswirkungen auf die Armen und die 'Nichtarmen'. So zeigt er auf, daß von den meisten Gesetzen nicht nur die Armen, sondern auch die anderen Schichten profitieren, wie z.B. beim Schulgesetz. Darüber hinaus fallen unter den Ausgaben die als 'Kampf gegen die Armut' ausgegeben werden manchmal auch versteckte Subventionen wie z.B. Beihilfen für Landwirte. (SWP-Fra)

Impact on the nonpoor of the post-1965 surge in U.S. social welfare expenditures.

This article describes and assesses the development of a major evaluation and policy research tool-microdata simulation modeling-over the past two decades. The method of microdata simulation modeling is described and its reliance on the development of large, nationally weighted household surveys is noted. After a brief tracing of the history of this evaluation method from the first-generation static models to dynamic models, to models with economic behavior imbedded in them, and to applied general equilibrium models, the problems and prospects of the technique are assessed. The analytic gains in richness and reliability are cited, as are the offsetting problems of cost, complexity, and the reliability of the underlying microdata and behavioral response junctions. The discussion concludes with an examination of the effect of this War on Poverty-stimulated research method on the development of the social sciences.