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...Martha A. Derthick, a member of the Joint Center for Urban Studies of M.I.T. and Harvard and an instructor in Government at Harvard has been named to head an intensive study of Boston's welfare program this...
Reached at her home last night, Dr. Derthick characterized her project with the finance commission as a continuation of research that she has been conducting since last fall. She said her research had been concentrated on the problem of Federal impact on state and local government...
Berkley described welfare administration in Boston as "a gargantuan problem" that Dr. Derthick and the finance commission would find very difficult to explore. He expressed the hope that Dr. Derthick might have occasion to examine problems that in the past "she may not have gone into," specifically the welfare budget and departmental organization...
...Derthick, on the other hand, described herself as "primarily interested in academic problems." Although she said that her research into rehabilitation centers and the shortage of trained welfare workers will be useful in the commission's investigation, she felt that her work's theoretical emphasis would limit its practical applications...
Urban problems, including high population density, bad schools, lack of public facilities, and air pollution are susceptible to solution through governmental action, Miss Derthick pointed out; people can be ordered to move out of cities, taxes heavy enough to provide good schools can be levied. But since action in these areas has met with increasing resistance, Miss Derthick suggested that the problems "may not be as urgent as we think they...