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 Mound on the Mount: A Possible Solution to the Problem with Jerusalem
Following Knauf's suggestion (2000), the article raises the possibility that in most periods in the second and first millennia BCE the main built-up area of Jerusalem was limited to a mound on the Temple Mount. This mound, which may have covered an area of five hectares and more, was boxed-in under the Herodian platform. At these periods activity in the City of David ridge was restricted to the area near the Gihon spring. In the Iron IIB and late Hellenistic Periods the fortified settlement expanded simultaneously to both the City of David ridge and the southwestern hill. In these two periods there was no need to fortify the western side of the City of David, as this line ran in the middle of the city.