Dramatic shifts from cash assistance to work, embodied in the 1996 replacement of Aid to Families with Dependent Children with Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), highlight the need to understand how current cash assistance recipients participate in required work-related activities and obstacles faced in getting and keeping jobs. The…

A noted authority on manpower analyzes how changes in the education, work patterns, and life styles of individuals will affect employers and educational institutions. (Editor)

Describes career opportunities for chemists considering employment areas of opportunity, salaries, college chemistry enrollments, research and development budgets, long term forecasts of supply and demand for chemists. Includes career planning aids, and an employers directory of chemical professions. (DF)

Fewer foreign students are studying on our shores, and the once-prized posture and mobility of American graduates in international business is threatened.

Describes efforts by government and professional associations to actively encourage the recruitment of minority group students and employees for extended training in the earch sciences. (AL)

Increased use of atomic energy for peacetime purposes affects industry's structure and employment. (Editor)

Forces are at work tending to minimize the home-to-work distance; however, these forces favor white workers in Detroit more than members of the Negro labor force. Residential segregation is the major factor controlling the home-to-work distance minimization efforts of Negro workers. (RJ)