The second issue of IPR's new electronic journal, NU Policy Research,
is now accessible on the World Wide Web. It features four articles by IPR researchers
that are summarized on these pages and elsewhere in the newsletter. Rebecca
Blank examines the new welfare reform legislation. Susan Mayer revisits the
War on Poverty. James Witte explains why East German fertility rates have
been falling, and James
Rosenbaum and Shazia Miller analyze why employers have trouble finding
good workers.
NUPR was conceived by its first editor, the
late political scientist Herbert Jacob, and is now edited by economist
Greg Duncan. The next issue is scheduled for winter 1998.
