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Bloom, Dan – MDRC, 2010
The budget for the U.S. Department of Labor for Fiscal Year 2010 includes a total of $45 million to support and study transitional jobs. This paper describes the origins of the transitional jobs models that are operating today, reviews the evidence on the effectiveness of this approach and other subsidized employment models, and offers some…
Descriptors: Employment Services, Welfare Services, Supported Employment, Employment Programs
Job Corps, 2008
This paper presents the recommendations made by the Advisory Committee on Job Corps to the Secretary of Labor pertaining to the review, development and implementation of policies, legislation and regulations for the Job Corps program. This document represents the culmination of an intensive and comprehensive nine-month process undertaken by the…
Descriptors: Job Training, Labor, Federal Programs, Program Effectiveness
Smith, Thomas J. – 1982
The development and performance, through 1981, of Private Industry Councils (PICs) in 16 study sites are described and assessed in this report. (PICs were set up under Title VII of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) to serve as a hub for attracting increased private sector involvement in employment and training activities for the…
Descriptors: Business Responsibility, Disadvantaged, Employment Programs, Job Training
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Brannam, Donald L. – Journal of Career Education, 1981
Presents a model for linking CETA with vocational education to implement entrepreneurship at the local level. Discusses staff responsibilities, the entrepreneurship lab, and a project evaluation. (CT)
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Community Programs, Coordination, Program Evaluation
Mirengoff, William; And Others – 1980
This study analyzes the extent to which targeting objectives of the Emergency Jobs Programs Extension Act (EJPEA) of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) programs have been achieved by federal and local officials and the effectiveness of limited-duration projects in providing useful public services. The study deals with the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Disadvantaged, Employment Programs
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources. – 1981
This document is a transcript of hearings on evaluation of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA). Focus of the hearing was on mismanagement and misappropriation of CETA contract funds, especially in the last days of the Carter administration. Testimony was given by various present and former officials of the Department of Labor,…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Employment Programs, Federal Programs
Harris, E. Edward – Journal of Business Education, 1980
Research concerning accountability of distributive education and marketing educators was performed. It resulted in the development of curriculum guides for secondary, postsecondary, adult education, and CETA instructors, and in the creation of a curriculum planning guide for program development in marketing and distribution which includes…
Descriptors: Accountability, Adult Education, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Enrichment
Ball, Joseph; And Others – 1981
The Youth Incentive Entitlement Pilot Projects demonstration has been the most ambitious attempt thus far to determine the feasibility of using private employers to provide a work experience in a youth employment program. In establishing this demonstration, congress authorized program operators to recruit private businesses as well as the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged Youth, Employer Attitudes
Myers, Douglas D.; And Others – 1980
An assessment was made of the degree to which a consistent, integrated, and coordinated effort is being made to provide vocational education services in Iowa. To assess the extent of cooperative relationships between selected human service agencies, five field visits were made to meet with representatives of local agencies and service centers…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Change Strategies, Cooperative Planning, Educational Legislation
Wurzburg, Gregory – 1979
This overview of an evaluation of prime sponsor implementation of the Youth Employment and Demonstration Projects Act (YEDPA), offers an interpretation of ten case study findings. It is divided into four principal parts. The first, "Summary of Findings and Recommendations," summarizes findings about local programs implementing YEDPA and…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Change Strategies, Employment Programs, Federal Legislation
Comptroller General of the U.S., Washington, DC. – 1982
A review focused on impact of the 1978 Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) amendments in improving sponsor's employability development systems and transition performance. Fifteen prime sponsors in 10 states were visited. Files of 1135 participants were reviewed; 478 were interviewed. Sponsor and Employment and Training Administration…
Descriptors: Compliance (Legal), Economically Disadvantaged, Education Work Relationship, Employment Potential
Comptroller General of the U.S., Washington, DC. – 1980
The Youth Incentive Entitlement Pilot Projects were designed to test whether guaranteed part-time jobs during the school year and full-time jobs in the summer would induce economically disadvantaged youths to remain in or return to school. The General Accounting Office (GAO) found that most worksites provided adequate experiences. Others, however,…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged Youth, Dropout Prevention, Dropouts
Employment and Training Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1986
This document summarizes the findings of currently available evaluation studies of the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) and other related reports and data. Data from 26 studies conducted between 1980 and 1986 are presented under the following subject headings: the state role (monitoring and oversight, policy interpretation and leadership,…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Employment Patterns, Employment Programs, Employment Projections
National League of Cities, Washington, DC. – 1980
This report makes recommendations to enhance the delivery of Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) services to small-city youth. It draws on the data base created by National League of Cities Youth Employment activities which provided a profile of the small city in CETA youth program operations, identified kinds of problems that affect…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Career Education, Employment Programs, Federal Legislation
Greenwood, Katy; And Others – 1981
This report describes the ways in which the funds for supplemental vocational assistance provided by Title II, Part A, section 204 of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) amendments of 1978 have been used to provide services for eligible CETA participants in Texas. Outlined first are the climate and the background of CETA/education…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Coordination, Educational Cooperation, Educational Finance
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