To address chronic unemployment more effectively, social workers can describe the problem accurately, collect data by type of unemployment (frictional, structural, cyclical and chronic), document negative human effects, emphasize economic consequences, document the unequal burden on nonwhites, and lobby for long-term employment policy…

The increase in psychology graduates and the decline of publicly supported mental health facilities will lead more psychologists to offer services privately. A community psychology model may be useful in the development and offering of services. The community concepts of prevention, crisis intervention, and consultation can be related to family,…

Outlines retreat from overall planning and management of federal scientific and technical information which began during the Nixon administration in early 1970s. Participation of the Office of Science and Technology and committees of Federal Council for Science and Technology and National Academy of Sciences-National Academy of Engineering is…

Surveyed 88 aging agencies serving approximately 11,000 clients to assess their capabilities for serving elderly with alcohol problems. Alcoholism was not viewed as a major problem by agency administrators, but few policies and procedures for dealing with this population were extant. Discussed implications for policy and program development.…

The Bureau of Labor Statistics assumed major responsibility for the Current Population Survey in 1959. Since then there have been increases in sample size, changes in and additions of questions, and refinements in the household survey's concept, but in general, the basic concepts have remained the same since the survey's beginnings in 1940. (JOW)

In a series of questions and answers, the Council for Higher Education Accreditation presents the fundamentals of the accreditation process and describes accrediting organizations. Accreditation is a process of external quality review used by higher education to scrutinize colleges, universities, and educational programs for quality assurance and…

This document presents research and development (R&D) expenditures reported by state based on data from the year 1999 in the United States. Information includes R&D expenditures by state, sector distribution of R&D performance by state, ratio of R&D to gross state product, and federal support for R&D by state. (YDS)

This argument against charging fees for adoption services centers on viewing the child as the agency's primary client. (ST)

Considers the legal and social implications of the Supreme Court's ruling in the Red Lion case declaring the FCC's fairness doctrine and its personal attack rules constitutional. Article based on address before the Radio Television News Directors Association Convention in Detroit, September, 1969. (LS)

Discusses a boys' athletic program, sponsored by a petroleum company, that provides for nationwide baseball competition. (NQ)

The purpose of the National Endowment for the Humanities is to help thinkers, teachers, scholars, and writers develop the humanities as sources of insight into human problems and priorities. (Author/MM)

Provides sources of information about apprenticeships, including the addresses of the state employment services. (BH)