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Download full textCongress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. – 1976
The purpose of the hearing before the Senate Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs was to receive testimony on two bills pending before the Committee, S.2630 and H.R.10138, both introducing legislation to amend the Youth Conservation Corps Act of 1970 to provide year-round employment of young adults, ages 19 to 24, to reduce the backlog of…
Descriptors: Conservation (Environment), Employment Programs, Federal Legislation, Natural Resources
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources. – 1980
Proceedings are presented of hearings before the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Employment, Poverty, and Migratory Labor of the Committee on Labor and Human Resources on the Youth Employment Act, 1980. The act is designed to provide an effective and efficient youth employment program designed to improve career opportunities for youth between the ages…
Descriptors: Energy, Federal Legislation, Federal Programs, Hearings
Joint Economic Committee, Washington, DC. – 1984
This congressional hearing contains testimony about the problem of youth unemployment and about the relationship between youth employment opportunities and the minimum wage. A special focus is the administration's proposal for the enactment of a youth employment opportunity wage, under which youth below the age of 20 could be paid 75 percent of…
Descriptors: Career Education, Federal Legislation, Hearings, Minimum Wage
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1989
This document reports on a congressional hearing on increasing the minimum wage. It presents both the administration's and the House of Representatives' positions on this issue. Testimony includes statements and prepared statements of the Secretary of Labor and a representative of the Coalition of Automotive Associations. Committee member comments…
Descriptors: Career Education, Employment Opportunities, Federal Legislation, Hearings
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources. – 1988
This document contains four Congressional hearings to review proposed legislation to revise certain youth employment provisions of Title II of the Job Training Partnership Act. This series of hearings looks into the whole question of how to improve the Federal Government's efforts to educate, train, and improve employment opportunities for the…
Descriptors: Employment Opportunities, Employment Programs, Employment Services, Federal Legislation
1977
This complete text of committee hearings presents testimonies on learning disabilities and their relation to juvenile delinquency. (Author/LEB)
Descriptors: Delinquency Causes, Delinquency Prevention, Equal Protection, Hearings
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. – 1974
The document is a copy of Public Law 93-408 enacted by the 93rd Congress, September 3, 1974 to amend the Youth Conservation Corps Act of 1970 in order to expand and make permanent the Youth Conservation Corps. The amended provisions deal with policy and purposes of the Corps, and qualifications, equal opportunity, employment, and term of…
Descriptors: Conservation (Environment), Employment Opportunities, Federal Legislation, Federal Programs
Scherer, Joseph, Ed.; Stimson, Jim – School Administrator, 1984
The upcoming reauthorization of the Vocational Education Act of 1963 offers an opportunity for changing the program. The author provides an update of legislative activities as well as discussion of important issues. (MD)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education, Financial Support, Job Skills
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Direct linkBryant, Donald W.; Kirk, Mary P. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 1997
Argues that 1994's School-to-Work Opportunities Act (STWOA) presents challenges for colleges regarding liability. Reviews legal issues related to standards for employing minors; verifying worker age; working with federal, state, and local laws; obtaining waivers of federal regulations; and protecting participants. Addresses additional challenges…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Education Work Relationship, Educational Technology, Federal Legislation
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1984
These are four congressional hearings on youth unemployment with particular reference to the Youth Incentive Employment Act, H.R. 5017, which would establish a program to provide part-time school year and full-time summer employment to economically disadvantaged youth pursuing further education or training. Another focus of the hearings was H.R.…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Federal Legislation, Hearings, Incentives
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families. – 1988
Based on findings of the most current and highly regarded evaluations and research reviews available, this committee print provides an update of a prior committee report (August, 1985) on eight cost-effective federal programs for children. Described in terms of program participation, characteristics, benefits for children, cost effectiveness, and…
Descriptors: Children, Compensatory Education, Cost Effectiveness, Disabilities
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources. – 1984
This is a congressional hearing to examine S. 2687, the Youth Employment Opportunity Wage Act. (This bill would permit employers to pay youth a wage of 75 percent of the statutory minimum wage during the summer. The bill has a sunset provision.) Testimony includes statements from U.S. Senators and Representatives and from individuals representing…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Employment Practices, Federal Legislation, Hearings
New York State Education Dept., Albany. Bureau of School Psychological and Social Services. – 1980
The State Education Department of New York receives many requests for extracts of the laws concerning school attendance. This booklet has been prepared in response to those requests. It attempts to assemble in book form most of the laws and regulations frequently referred to by administrators, attendance teachers, supervisors, and others involved…
Descriptors: Attendance, Attendance Officers, Attendance Records, Children
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1986
The amendments to the Job Training Partnership Act refine the existing statute without disrupting basic program operations. The major provisions make adjustments in the following areas: (1) definition of economically disadvantaged; (2) designation of service delivery area; (3) the Literacy and Dropout Prevention Program; (4) protection for the…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Employment, Employment Opportunities, Employment Programs
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1988
This report contains oral and written testimony of persons who appeared at a hearing on amendments to H.R. 18, the American Conservation Act of 1987. The act is intended to provide jobs for youth, especially poor, inner-city youth who have dropped out of high school or who lack basic skills, while providing necessary clean-up and development…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Community Programs, Conservation (Environment), Disadvantaged Youth
