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Bolce, Louis Henri; Gray, Susan H. – USA Today, 1978
A surprisingly large number of unemployed persons (25-37 percent) are choosing to remain out of work because they can not find the type of job that suits their skills and interests. The author examines the structural features of American society that encourage voluntary unemployment and offers some tentative proposals to solve the problem.…
Descriptors: Employment Patterns, Government Role, Lower Class, Middle Class Standards
Payne, Glen N.; Peck, Robert F. – 1979
The United States portion of a crossnational study of coping styles suggests that children may have coping strategies that support their value systems. Participants were two random samples of equal numbers of ten- and fourteen-year-olds, boys and girls, upper-middle class and upper-lower class in communities near Chicago, Illinois, and Austin,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Adolescents, Careers
