This survey of programs operated by five large New York City area employers was undertaken to discover what can be effectively done to ease the critical transition from school to work--or from school to unemployment to work--in good times and bad. (Author)

California districts have discovered that a Statewide enrollment dip has hindered efforts to hire minority personnel. (Author/DN)

Reviews research on, and details its implications for the planning of Negro education, such statistics as: the Negro population, 1970, 1960, and 1950, for 30 cities with the largest Negro population; families by median income in 1971, and Negro family income as a per cent of white by region: 1959, 1966, 1970 and 1971; and others. (JM)

Analyzes trends in the research and development spending on the basis of a survey of chemical makers made by the Chemical and Engineering News. Indicates the presence of a modest upturn in 1973 in the basic chemical industry even in constant dollar terms. (CC)

This paper documents, using a single test as a model, the significant increase in clinical laboratory workload which occurred in a university hospital when strong sections of nephrology, hematology-oncology, and immunology-rheumatology were added to the department of medicine. (Author)

Special Labor Force Report shows mothers of almost 26 million children under age 18 were in the labor force in March 1972. (Editor)

The paternalistic industrial system is not likely to be discarded soon; in today's fast-moving economy, it affords cost flexibility and employment security. (Editor)

There appears to be a tendency for commercial studies to evolve into a particular form of general education, one incorporating linguistic, computational and manual (keyboard) skills within a framework of social sciences. (Author)

This paper estimates for a given year (1959) both rates of return and present values to taking additional schooling in Puerto Rico, and relates these rates and present values to the increase in schooling per male worker in broad occupational categories over the 20 years, 1940-1960. (Author/RY)

An analysis of the socioeconomic profiles of blacks residing in the central cities and the urban fringes of 213 urbanized areas during 1960. Uses data from the 1960 U. S. Census of Population and Housing, 1/10,000 national sample. (JM)