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Focuses on welfare allowances in the U.S. Shortcomings of welfare allowances; Report that costs of welfare have been escalating, bringing some states and cities to the threshold of financial disaster; Opinion that the bill, known as HR 1, would establish a national minimum for welfare payments, would embrace the working poor and provide complete federal funding for national minimums; Findings of an analysis of the eligible welfare households by the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee.

Presents information on economic policies prevalent in Rome in ancient times. Information that in spite of Rome's tremendous wealth, many of her citizens were so poor that their main economic goal was to get enough food; Comments on the policy adopted by Gaius Gracchus, social reformer, to sell wheat in the capital city at half the regular market price; Reaction of conservatives to the policies implemented by Gracchus; Report that idleness became a way of life in the imperial city of Rome; Analysis of the economic causes of Rome's decline.