This document reports the oral and written testimony submitted at a Congressional hearing on how job training works--how effective employment training programs succeed and how that success is measured. The hearing was based on a General Accounting Office study that found four hallmarks of effective job training: individual commitment, removal of…

This guide is intended to assist Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) program policymakers, planners, and program operators develop JTPA programs and activities. Discussed first are JTPA participant eligibility criteria and ways of assuring that competing groups can receive services in an equitable manner that is consistent with the intent of JTPA.…

This document contains transcripts of oral and written testimony from witnesses at a hearing on National Youth Service. National Youth Service is a broad concept that will allow the youth of the United States to serve their country and communities through public service. Youth Service members could, after completing their service, receive…