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An Employment and Education Agenda for Youth in the 1980s. A Policy Statement by the National Council on Employment Policy.
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National Council on Employment Policy (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1980
The causes of youth unemployment--especially among poor and minority youths--are enmeshed in a web of social, educational, and economic forces acting on the lives of families. Some of these forces are out of the sphere of federal influence, but labor market industries and the education system also have important effects on the experience of youth…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Education Work Relationship, Federal Legislation, Federal Programs
Statement of Dr. Gene Bottoms, Executive Director, American Vocational Association, before the Senate Subcommittee on Employment, Poverty and Migratory Labor.
Bottoms, Gene – 1980
While strongly supporting the passage of the Youth Act of 1980 (S-2385), the American Vocational Association (AVA) contends that improvements are needed in the bill in order to effect optimal linkages between employment and education agencies toward solving the youth unemployment problem. Specific changes would (1) further the potential of…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Education Work Relationship, Federal Legislation, Federal Programs
Youth Act of 1980. Report Together with Dissenting Views. Ninety Sixth Congress, Second Session, House of Representatives.
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Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1980
This congressional report contains a discussion of the provisions of the Youth Act of 1980 (H.R. 6711) and presents dissenting views on the act. (The Youth Act of 1980 extends the authorization of and improves youth training and employment programs, extends the authorization of the private initiative program, and authorizes intensive and remedial…
Descriptors: Business, Community Involvement, Educational Legislation, Employment Programs