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##3 Publications of Interest
From: Glen Crawford <GDC () LNS62 LNS CORNELL EDU>
Date: Sun, 8 Aug 93 22:00:02 PDT
[This is an abstract. The article appeared in YSN #1308. -ed.] There are several occurrences of both the Myth and the Countermyth in the August APS (American Physical Society) News. It seems that the APS has owned up to the employment problem for young physicists, but is either ambivalent about the problem or can't get its terminology straight. In any case I recommend it to YSN subscribers as provocative reading. ========== From: gilligan () central bldrdoc gov (Jonathan M. Gilligan) [Summary - see YSN #1308 for the full post.] A recent data brief from the National Science Foundation [NSF] indicates that investment in research and development [R&D] in the U.S., both by private industry and by the federal government, declined in 1991. This was only the second time since the NSF began keeping records in 1954 that corporate spending on R&D declined after inflation. A story in the New York Times on July 26 reports that massive layoffs and downsizing are not limited to companies in financial trouble. Companies in good health, such as Procter and Gamble, are planning major restructuring. Procter and Gamble plans to cut its workforce by 12 percent over the next several years. Computer programmers will be hit hard as they cut 62 of 65 computer systems currently in place. General Electric has cut its workforce almost in half in the last decade, during which period its sales tripled. As a result of these policies, the fraction of unemployment due to permanent job loss has grown dramatically and the number of opportunities for the jobless has declined. -----------------------------
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