The Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training (TAACCCT) program provided grants to community colleges and other eligible institutions of higher education to expand and improve their ability to deliver education and career training programs. Grant-funded colleges served workers who were eligible for training under the Trade…

Describes programs designed to help farm families who are forced to leave agriculture because of financial reasons. Includes federal, state, and local government programs that address the need for counseling, legal and technical assistance, financial assistance during the transition to nonfarm work, and skills assessment and job search assistance.…

This volume presents 19 papers and reactor comments from the third annual Policy Forum on Employability Development, which focused on the information and program options needed to prevent and ameliorate worker displacement. The first four papers describe and assess the context of the problem. Topics include national policy and local program…

Today, this country is facing awesome challenges. Technology is changing all aspects of life, while work force requirements shift rapidly, swelling the numbers of workers who need to be retrained. At the same time, information technologies are creating changes in the automated office. Higher-level literacy is required for most workers in this…