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Download full textBloom, 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
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. – 1982
With expiration of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) impending, the United States General Accounting Office (GAO) reviewed four types of adult-oriented service: classroom training, on-the-job training, work experience, and public service employment. The GAO researched and synthesized program administrative data and the results…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adults, Disadvantaged, Economically Disadvantaged
Battle (Mark) Associates, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1980
This volume is one of the products of the knowledge development effort implemented under the mandate of the Youth Employment and Demonstration Projects Act of 1977. It is a report of an assessment study designed to determine the status and results of the implementation of mixed income experiments at 47 Comprehensive Employment and Training Act…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged Youth
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
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris (France). – 1981
This description of federal compensatory education programs for the economically disadvantaged was prepared for the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's review of national education policies. As background, the report first describes the U.S. educational system, the social and educational changes since 1954 that gave rise to…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Disabilities, Economically Disadvantaged, Educationally Disadvantaged
Hobbie, Richard A.; Fein, Alan – 1977
An analysis of the structural elements of the employment situation was done in 1977 to provide congressional members with pertinent information for their use in making policy decisions about federal role and budget in employment and training programs. It was concluded that the Federal Government can implement four basic budget strategies: create…
Descriptors: Budgets, Disadvantaged, Economically Disadvantaged, Employment Patterns
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
Westat Research, Inc., Rockville, MD. – 1980
This report is one of the products of the knowledge development effort implemented under the mandate of the Youth Employment and Demonstration Projects Act of 1977 (YEDPA). It describes an aspect of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) program--the personal characteristics, economic backgrounds, and pre-CETA year experiences of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Background, Cost Effectiveness, Demonstration Programs
National Council on Employment Policy (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1980
This is the second report concerning how Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) sponsors implemented two programs under the Youth Employment and Demonstration Projects Act (YEDPA), specifically the Youth Community Conservation Improvement Projects (YCCIP) and Youth Employment and Training Program (YETP). The report is based on studies by…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Case Studies, Community Cooperation, Community Organizations
Burnham, Margaret – The Nation, 1989
Examines the reasons behind the failure of poverty programs such as the War on Poverty, the Comprehensive Employment Training Administration (CETA), and the Great Society. Argues that ghettoized high school students need community action programs that will give them jobs while they are still in school. (FMW)
Descriptors: Black Youth, Community Programs, Economically Disadvantaged, Employment Opportunities
Ockerman-Garza, Janet; And Others – 1982
An analysis was made of the case histories of two Georgia State University (GSU) "cooperative models" for the delivery of career education and formal academic services to economically disadvantaged groups. One of the models served primarily black, primarily female Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) participants by providing…
Descriptors: Associate Degrees, Blacks, Case Studies, Comparative Analysis
Peer reviewedCaldwell, Robert M.; Hedl, John J., Jr. – Urban Review, 1984
Reports on a study that (1) examined the effectiveness of computer-based education in developing literacy and mathematics skills in young adults to enable them to secure unsubsidized employment and (2) compared motivation of CETA-funded students with those who sought training voluntarily. Discusses failures of CETA training projects and makes…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Computer Assisted Instruction, Course Evaluation, Disadvantaged Youth
National Alliance of Business, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1982
Under proposed legislation to replace the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA), business can be expected to assume an even greater involvement in job training programs at the state and local levels. How the private sector is adapting to its new role, particularly through the private industry council (PIC) system, is the subject of this…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Business Responsibility, Disadvantaged
Peer reviewedBassi, Laurie J. – Evaluation Review, 1987
The cost effectiveness of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act was evaluated in terms of moving economically disadvantaged individuals toward financial independence. Data analysis indicated small savings in welfare payments for female recipients, but not males. Data deficiencies in the Continuous Longitudinal Manpower Survey were also…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Cost Effectiveness, Economically Disadvantaged, Employment Programs
