Welfare for veterans: an army on short rations
20 The Welfare Inspector General of New York State made headlines recently with charges of widespread ineligibility among veterans receiving relief in New York City.1 Little notice, however, was taken of the plight of 15,000 veterans then receiving relief in the city, or of their dependents, together totaling almost 37,000 persons. Over 1,000 veterans, mostly of the Vietnam War, are currently applying for public as sistance in the city each month. Ex-service men are probably making their way to wel fare offices in proportionate numbers throughout the country, but precise data are not readily available because few states or localities keep statistics on veterans as such.
"Curiously Uninvolved": Social Work and Protest against the War in Vietnam
This article reviews four leading social work journals from 1965-1975 for content on the War in Vietnam and the social issues arising from it. It finds that social work's major journals carried nearly no articles, letters, editorials, or short subjects related to the war and concludes that the dominant discourse constructed in the journals excluded meaningful engagement with the war or protest against it.
The genus Pseudolithophyllum (Corallinaceae) in the Gulf of Maine
SummaryThis is the third of a series of papers covering the anatomy, morphology, systematics and ecology of the crustose corallines of the Gulf of Maine. Pseudolithophyllum orbiculatum, the only species of this genus in the region, is treated in this paper.