As the supply of White, male new workers decreases, companies must recruit employees from the ranks of females, minorities, retired workers, and perhaps immigrants. Each of these groups has certain needs that employers or government must address to entice them into the labor force. (CH)

Discusses the problems of the Black underclass that is growing despite economic expansions. States that a lack of role models and a lack of incentives to get off welfare are key influences. Advocates improved services for disadvantaged children, starting before birth, as a partial solution. (CH)

Three forces are combining to mandate a more highly skilled work force: (1) technological advancement, (2) job growth centered on high-skill occupations, and (3) new work organizational strategies. As many as 50 million workers, many of them minorities and immigrants, may have to be trained or retrained in the next 12 years. (CH)