AMERICA'S TOUGH NEW JOB MARKET Look for plenty of opportunity but less security. More people will work in small companies and at home. Those who get the good jobs will be skilled -- and adaptable. - February 24, 1992
(FORTUNE Magazine) - THE GREAT American Job Machine, which put 18 million more people to work between 1982 and 1990, is stuck in the mud. Employment losses in the recession have been modest compared with those during the far deeper slump of the early 1980s. But people sense that prospects for

Publication: Fortune

'Common sense tells you that being in a family home will work better' FOR STARTERS FOR STARTERS THIS LIFE MARION McDONALD IS AN NCH FOSTER CARER. HER CHILDHOOD IN CARE HOMES, AND A LIFETIME OF LOOKING AFTER RELATIVES YOUNG, OLD AND EVEN CANINE HAS GIVEN HER THE INSIGHT NEEDED FOR THIS TOUGH BUT REWARDING JOB
"MY day flies in. Honestly. I get upand get the young person up for school, and that's me up doing reports, washing, preparing meals. Not one day is the same as the next. In some ways they're just like normal family days. It depends what child you've got and how long you've known them, but it's a

Publication: The Sunday Herald

JOBS PAY GOOD MONEY, BUT HISPANIC WORKERS LONG FOR HOME TEMPORARY WORK PROGRAMS IN U.S. HELP GIVE FAMILIES ELSEWHERE A CHANCE FOR A BETTER LIFE.(FRONT)
Byline: KATRICE FRANKLIN THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT CHESAPEAKE -- It was a long bus ride for Juan Benitez from Mexico - 72 hours to wonder whether he'd like his new life in Virginia. Three days to remember how his new bride looked when he told her goodbye. About 4,320 minutes to let the last words of his

Publication: The Virginian Pilot

BRITS LOVE HOME WORK; We'd save cash and do job better.(News)
Byline: By Ben Spencer MORE than half of Britain's employees would rather work from home, a survey has found. And research shows they could save a small fortune by doing so - on average at least pounds 30,000 during their working lives. The average commuter who drives to work spends pounds 17,515

Publication: Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)

Job experts: Work-from-home can sometimes be too-good-to-be-true.
Byline: Jane Mcbride Aug. 24--The promise is alluring: Work from home and make more money on your own time for yourself than you would working 8 to 5 for someone else. Nice work if you can get it. But as many consumers e find out the hard way, a scam is a scam, even when it makes perfect sense at

Publication: Beaumont Enterprise (Beaumont, TX)

A home for work: where there are day laborers, more and more cities run workers' centers to get them on good jobs and off the streets. So why doesn't Woodside, host to hundreds of jornaleros, have a place for them to go?
A community organizer named Juan Valentin walks up and down Roosevelt Avenue in Queens on a June morning, handing out leaflets that he carries in his leather satchel and speaking to groups of Latino men. We live here. We pay rent here. We buy food here. We are part of the community. They're saying

Publication: City Limits