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The New York City Coordinating Committee of Welfare Groups, which mainly represents mothers and children, has just announced a major campaign to recruit poorly paid male workers and their families onto the relief rolls to obtain substantial wage supplements. If the campaign succeeds, it could spread to other cities, providing the basis for a political alliance between the working and non- working poor. Such a coalition of poor people would be a defense against the mounting attacks on the welfare system, attacks spearheaded by better-paid segments of the working and middle class.

The article discusses how medical care is financed in New York. Expenditures for medical care in the city is at 227 dollars per capita. The city provides an extensive hospital care program for persons who have low incomes but are not on welfare. A fifth of the city's health budget for infants and children, a third on services to the aged and some reserved for adults under 65. A portion of the budget also serve as vendor payments for services of private practitioners or to voluntary hospitals and clinics.

This article discusses the events that led to the closure of the Saint Francis hospital and medical charity for the poor people run by the Franciscan Sisters of the Poor in New York, N.Y. The evacuation from the hospital will still proceed in spite of the publicity. No formal announcements have been made by the city regarding its closure and who would take over the building and the facilities. Several members of the hospital from the housekeeping staff to the doctors have began to look for jobs.

The article offers information on protests over a large public-housing project for low-income, presumably mostly black, residents in New York City. The quite community of mostly middle-class Jews in Forest Hills, Queens, didn't like New York Mayor John Lindsay's idea of scattering housing for the poor throughout the city. The community wanted the governor to built the housing units in ghetto areas.

Reconstruction Finance Corp. has made its first loan to "a limited-dividend housing corporation for purposes of slum clearance and rehousing low-income groups. The plan deserves careful analysis because it is a perfect illustration of how the housing problem cannot be solved. The development will be located on the site of what is now one of the worst slum blocks on New York City's famous East Side. It has long been known as the "lung block" because of the high incidence of tuberculosis among its inhabitants.

Laments the suicide of New York City-based Edgar Chambless, an impoverished inventor of a new type of city he called Roadtown. Description of the town invented by him; Admiration expressed by the article author for the courage of Chambless to keep going despite all odds; Struggles of Chambless in trying to gain acceptance for his plan; Description of the first meeting between the article author and Chambless; Efforts made by Chambless to interest the government of the Soviet Union.

Focuses on the social problems in New York City. Promotion of social welfare; Prevention of crime in the city; Reduction of virulence of several of infections threatening the vitality of the poor people.

The article offers information on the contents of the diary of Arthur H. Bremer, a suspect who was found guilty and sane for shooting George Wallace on his attempts to assassinate U.S. President Richard Nixon and Wallace. Bremer states that he always carries a gun in a hotel room in New York City, and desired to be stared by poor people. Meanwhile, the schizoid personality observed by the psychiatrists and the diary have prompted the jury that Bremer is aware of his plans.

The article reports on the favorable action on state pensions in the U.S. with the approval of the Mastick old-age pension bill by New York Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt which would provide organized aid to old and needy citizens. The fact that there will always be poor people remains the basis of arguments in favor of state pensions, while cost figures is the economic reason for the spreading popularity of state pension plans. Unemployment though adds to the many causes of old age dependency and wipes away the savings of workers.

The article focuses on a public debate between lawyer Clarence Darrow and Judge A. J. Tallen on the issue of capital punishment conducted in the Manhattan Opera House in New York City. Opposing capital punishment, Darrow claims that poor people awaiting death cannot get lawyers to look after them because such lawyers are too busy looking after the riches of big corporations. Talley, who supports death penalty, claims there would be no possible hindrance to killing when the death penalty was eradicated, since criminals are unafraid of a jail's conditions.

The article reports that the Black Panthers accused of plotting to blow up police stations and department stores located in New York City remain in jail since April as they have been unable to raise money for their bails.

As soon as the U.S. President Richard Nixon incomes policy came into play on August 15, 1971, businessmen and financiers who had prayed for strong government controls on the setting of wages and prices began wondering if the New Economic Program would "work." It became fashionable, particularly on Wall Street, New York, to suppose that it could not "work," and the correct "line" was to argue that the sooner the controls came off the better, as if the Administration could possibly permit a return of the drift toward economic depression that had prevailed before August 15, 1971.

The article discusses the city of New York. That New York compares favorably with any great city in the world in the matter of vice, has been repeatedly and emphatically assured on the highest official authority. Whether this be true or not, so far as regards the actual extent of "the social evil" taken in itself, one should not undertake to judge. Government, in any event, is only one of the factors that enter into the case; economic conditions, the prevailing moral standards of the community, and other elements of pervasive importance and influence, go to the shaping of the situation.

The article discusses the history of New York City, focusing on the period of 1900 to 1950. It examines the differences between the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn and Manhattan. The author comments on the advent of skyscrapers and on demographic changes, noting the influx of European immigrants, African Americans from the U.S. South, and Puerto Ricans. Other topics include the transit system, particularly the subway, and industries including the garment industry and the finance and banking industry.

This article presents news including rising property tax in the United States, efforts made by Governor Nelson Rockefeller to curb the use of New Yorkers using drugs in the city, and the system of wage and price controls, which has been largely dismantled by efforts made by United States President Richard Nixon.

Provides information about the creation of the new Empire State Building in New York City. Description on the architectural design of the building; Number of elevators; Details on the interior design of the offices; Appreciation of President Herbert Clark Hoover on the performance of the developers of the building; Significance of the building in attracting more businessmen to invest in the city; Amount of money contributed by the people responsible for the formation of the Empire State building.

Covers issues on human resources in New York City, New York as of March 1973. Suggestion of human resource administrator Jule M. Sugarman concerning the relocation of low-income citizens; Population of the city; Budget of the city.

Discusses the report of Amitai Etzioni, director of the Center for Policy Research at the Columbia University in New York City to analyze the performance of a program to fight poverty in the country. Comparison of poverty programs under former U.S. Presidents, Harry S. Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower with the programs during the 1960s; Attempt of the government to change the attitude of poor people rather than simply create jobs for them; Focus of the government on the increasing demands of the military budget; Need for another national program to fight poverty.

Focuses on the administration of the New York City under Mayor William O'Dwyer. Information on James J. Walker, former mayor of the city; Problems faced by the city during the postwar period; Blunders committed by O'Dwyer while executing his duties; Praise of O'Dwyer on his successful handling of the labor problem; Handling of the issues related to the municipal workers; Discussion on the transit crisis during the tenure of O'Dwyer as the Mayor; Qualities of the Mayor.

Opposes the efforts of the United Federation of Teachers to block the implementation of a Ford Foundation-sponsored educational experiment decentralizing the management of schools and giving ghetto parents control over community schools in the Ocean Hill Jewish neighborhood in New York. Criticism against the bureaucracy and centralized power of the New York Board of Education; Suggestion that the union opposed decentralization because it wants to negotiate only with a centralized board; Race polarization created by the deployment of African American police force in Ocean Hill School; Compromise offered by the Ocean Hill-Brownsville governing board to the union to settle the dispute; Implication of the decentralization and community control issues at Ocean Hill-Brownsville for other schools in large U.S. cities.

Presents an article about the state of schools in the Ocean Hill-Brownsville demonstration district in New York City as of April 1969. Problems in creating good schools; Action taken by the Ocean Hill governing board to address the issue of decentralization in the appointment of principals; Assessment of the performance of teachers at the school district; Existence of violence in some classes; Example of a good educational case for making the preschool years close to parents.

The article offers information on the benevolent institutions of New-York, which are devoted to fulfill the needs of unfortunate and poor people including the Institution for the Blind, Protestant Half-Orphan Asylum, and Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb.

Presents an update on the stand of New York Senator Robert Kennedy and Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy on the reform movement within the Democratic Party in their respective states as of June 25, 1966. Information on the status of the reform movement in Massachusetts; Speculations about the role played by Robert Kennedy in the candidacy of Kenneth P. O'Donnell for the Democratic primary elections in Massachusetts; Action taken by Robert Kennedy showing his support of the party reform movement in New York City.

Focuses on the deteriorating conditions of the U.S. Works Progress Administration (WPA), an employment relief program started under the direction of administrator Harry L. Hopkins and with U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's vision of providing a job to one person in every family on relief. Reasons for the failure of WPA; Charges made by WPA workers in New York City on the treatment received by them; Recommendations by the American Association of Social Workers concerning the issue; Disintegration of the Emergency Relief Administration; Increase in the proportion of the jobless who are seeking relief; Reduction in relief expenditures by Roosevelt for political reasons.

Describes the innovation being implemented in Lincoln Hospital in Bronx, New York City under Doctor Joseph J. Smith, director of Lincoln's Department of Gynecology-Obstetrics. Involvement of social service in the hospital; Health examinations given to women who come to Lincoln Hospital for maternity care; Services rendered by the Neighborhood Maternity Infant Center, a satellite facility of Lincoln Hospital; Aim of Lincoln hospital; Statement issued by Joseph Monserrat, director of migration for Puerto Rico, on the innovation of Lincoln Hospital.

Presents information on a poetry-reading program, which was organized at Columbia University, New York City. Focus on the poem recited by U.S. poet Allen Ginsberg; Discussion of the relationship between Ginsberg and poet Peter Orlovsky; Report that the poem "The Change" read by Ginsberg cannot be completely understood at first hearing as it produces strong physical sensations; Description of the poem recited by Orlovsky at the program.