This report to the Secretary of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare is based on the research findings of a private research contractor, Greenleigh Associates (See VT 005 948 and VT 005 949), site visits, and interviews with persons connected with about 30 federally supported job training programs. The 30 programs are of two types:…

This book contains 17 social policy essays on various topics related to labor and full employment policies in the United States. The following papers are included: "Introduction" (Stephen Mangum); "Secular Rabbi: The Life and Times of Sar A. Levitan" (Garth Mangum); "Young Workers, Young Families, and Child Poverty"…

Part One of this report summarizes the detailed data and findings of Part Two (VT 005 949). A thoroughly documented analysis of federally supported job training programs in terms of their scope, interrelationships, and administration (including inter- and intra-agency coordination) led to 25 recommendations, including: (1) Consolidation of program…

The available evidence suggests the MDTA-Institutional program should be revamped with more reliance on the private sector for production and delivery of institutional training. In his review of eleven studies of Federal manpower programs, O'Neill finds that the MDTA-Institutional program, the oldest of the Federal training approaches, has…

Part I (VT 005 948) of the report to the Committee on Administration of Training Programs contains summaries of the findings and recommendations based on the analysis of data presented in this volume. Answers to two basic questions were sought: (1) To what extent is there waste, duplication, and inefficiency in administering federally supported…

This annual summary provides information about research and development projects which have been conducted under contract to the Manpower Administration. This report differs from previous ones in that it has been expanded to include development projects in addition to the research projects. Projects in progress at the end of the 1971 fiscal year…

Some of the dimensions of the relative financial contribution of the cooperating parties in manpower institutional training as established under the Manpower Development and Training Act of 1962 were explored. This analysis will provide some perspective to those who must finally decide the question of relative financial contribution, or provide…

A DISCUSSION OF INSTITUTIONAL RETRAINING PROGRAMS UNDER THE MANPOWER DEVELOPMENT AND TRAINING ACT (1962) OUTLINES MANPOWER REPORTING AND TRAINING PROVISIONS OF THE ACT ITSELF, DISCUSSES PROBLEMS OF IMPLEMENTATION IN CALIFORNIA (I.E., DIFFICULTY IN FURNISHING ON-THE-JOB PROGRAMS AND PROPER COUNSELING), OUTLINES NATIONAL AND REGIONAL TRAINING UNDER…