Summarizes the supply and demand data on employment situations for chemists and chemical engineers. Indicates the presence of a better employment picture this year than before. (CC)

Special Labor Force Report shows that job losers, mostly men, make up less than half of the unemployed; jobless women and teenagers are mostly entrants into the job market. (Editor)

Counselors who were surveyed to determine why they had changed jobs reported that they had changed occupations because of job interest and financial reasons, and that they had entered counseling because of a real interest in the field. The counselors' experiences led them to believe that other people change jobs primarily because of lack of…

An evaluation of the process and the impact of the Emergency Employment Act in the Los Angeles area. (DM)

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)

The realities of the modern technical, urban, media-saturated, cybernated, post-industrial and post-civilized society run headlong into the concept of education for high culture. (Author)

Considers that the supply of new scientists and engineers will eventually become limited by the availability of motivated and able young people. Population, enrollment, and employment projections to 1990 suggest that a shortage of graduates will occur in the 1980's. (AL)