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Download full textTaggart, Robert – 1981
Information on training and remediation activities for unemployed and underemployed persons is described and analyzed with emphasis on programs authorized by the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA). Chapter 1 overviews the dilemma of persons with employment and earnings problems and approaches to dealing with the problem. CETA, its…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Educational Strategies, Employment Programs, Federal Legislation
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Veterans' Affairs. – 1983
This congressional report contains testimony dealing with on-the-job and apprenticeship training programs. More specifically, the testimony focused on the employment problems, educational and training needs, and programs available to assist unemployed as well as underemployed Vietnam era veterans. Included among those agencies and organizations…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Disabilities, Educational Legislation, Educational Needs
McAdoo, Harriet Pipes – 1989
A major challenge facing U.S. society is how to bring the massive groups of underemployed and unemployed minorities into the mainstream of the labor market. These groups will soon comprise 22 percent of the labor market and will be expected to take over positions requiring increased skill levels, but for generations they have been hindered in…
Descriptors: Adults, Dropouts, Early Parenthood, Education Work Relationship
Carnevale, Anthony Patrick – 1984
American society is based on work. The industrial revolution exposed a growing proportion of the population to unemployment, underemployment, and dislocation. Early theoreticians believed that unemployment was a temporary labor market imbalance that would correct itself with downward wage adjustments. John Maynard Keynes, on the other hand, argued…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Disadvantaged Youth, Dislocated Workers, Economic Change
Stewart, Charles D. – 1980
This monograph outlines public policy responses to deal with the effects of forced worklife changes fashioned by government in the United States, Japan, and Western European countries. From the Morrill Act of 1862, through New Deal policy initiatives and on to the "active" manpower policies operating in Europe, the record of government…
Descriptors: Business Cycles, Economic Change, Education Work Relationship, Employment Opportunities
Illinois Univ., Urbana. Dept. of Vocational and Technical Education. – 1979
This report of a project to begin to develop a plan for research, development, and instruction in adult vocational education in Illinois has two specific goals: (1) to identify the current status of adult vocational education in Illinois and (2) to recommend key directions for state actions. It presents information collected through a…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Agency Cooperation, Articulation (Education), Career Change
