The Emergency Employment Act, despite weaknesses, may represent a first step toward a needed permanent public service employment program. Or it could be a diversion and a destructive caricature of job creation. (DM)

This article relates the poignant story of a foreign student's search for a college degree and a job that would take him back home. (Author)

The Women In Action Conference concerned involvement and dwelled on realistic and creative ways for women to participate in the life of our times. Antonia Chandler Hayes discusses the changed climate for white people, especially women, who are concerned about urban affairs, and yet are confronted with a disheartening lack of enthusiasm for their…

Barriers to employment for economically and vocationally disadvantaged persons are presented in this study. Four clusters of barriers are identified: job qualifications, social and interpersonal conflict, legal and financial problems, and emotional-personal problems. Counseling programs are also described to help individuals overcome these…

Describes employment opportunities in universities and research and development for graduates holding doctoral degrees in biology, chemistry, mathematics, and physics. Projections are made to the year 2000. Over supply of Ph.D.'s by the 1980's is anticipated. Steps are proposed for national graduate education policy. (JM)

Analyzes the processes whereby new technologies create opportunities for new markets and increase the need for value-added knowledge work. Suggests that in some sectors information and communications technologies will cause substantial displacement of workers in routine-based jobs. (Contains 46 references.) (SK)

Seventy-four potential employers of mentally retarded persons were surveyed regarding their concerns in hiring the mentally retarded. Results revealed that most businesses did not employ the mentally retarded. The majority indicated they had jobs appropriate for the retarded and were willing to hire members of this group. (Author)

Analysis of labor statistics and employer surveys indicated that the unemployment rate for university graduates in Nigeria may be 22 percent and that their prospects for employment have worsened over time. Employers believe that graduates are poorly trained and unproductive, their skills have deteriorated over the last decade, and shortcomings are…

PUERTO RICO WAS DISCOVERED BY CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS IN 1493. THE PROCESS OF COLONIZATION BEGAN IN 1508, WITH THE ARRIVAL OF PONCE DE LEON AND HIS SPANISH SOLDIERS. PUERTO RICO WAS GOVERNED BY SPAIN FOR ABOUT 400 YEARS, AND THE GREAT MASS OF PEOPLE REMAINED POVERTY-STRICKEN, UNDERNOURISHED, AND ILLITERATE. THE ISLAND WAS CEDED TO THE UNITED STATES…

Proposes several tongue-in-cheek solutions to the problem of finding employment for the 30,000 English majors now on American college and university campuses. (RBW)

Summation of the proceedings at a conference which sought answers to the following questions: (1) What are employers now doing to meet the problems of the transition of many uoung people from school to work? (2) What are these employers able and willing to do in the future to meet these problems? (SB)