Manpower Developments and Requirements in Our New Service Economy.

The author reports that as of 1968, the United States is the only country in the world to have transitioned from an agrarian society, through an industrial phase, and into a service economy. More than 50 percent of the population is employed in the service sector and the population has shifted to suburban living. Such an economic change has social policy implications for the federal government which include social security, welfare, and medical benefits. A discussion is presented of three pieces of federal legislation: the 1965 Medicare amendments to the Social Security Act, the Education Act of 1965, and the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964.