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Murguia, Janet; Arroyo, Liany Elba, Ed.; Miranda, Leticia, Ed. – Harvard Journal of Hispanic Policy, 2011
The United States has provided generations of its residents with the prospect of advancing themselves through education and hard work, and U.S. leaders have the opportunity to make sure this continues for generations to come. To do so, they must handle the national deficit in a decisive, thoughtful manner, ensuring a prosperous future for the…
Descriptors: Hispanic Americans, Minority Group Children, Poverty, Academic Achievement
Association of Canadian Community Colleges, 2008
The key to economic and social development lies in the knowledge and skill base of human capital. This report, presented to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance, calls for vigorous action on the part of the Government of Canada, in concert with the provinces and territories, to protect the Canadian economy from a skills shortage…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Economic Development, Human Capital, Private Sector
Crawford, Clarence C. – 1995
The Department of Labor's (DOL's) worker protection functions touch the lives of nearly every worker. Its approaches to carrying out these functions may have met the needs of an earlier time, but today's work world presents new demands and challenges to the federal government's traditional role. Today it is time to question the DOL's role in the…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Employer Employee Relationship, Employment Practices, Federal Government
American Association of Community and Junior Colleges, Washington, DC. – 1982
The United States requires a coordinated, national approach to human resource development that will result in the establishment of priorities, detailed planning, and the full use of public and private resources backed by adequate state and federal funding. Problems of unemployment, underemployment, skilled worker shortages, national defense needs…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Educational Opportunities, Entrepreneurship, Federal Legislation
Marshall, Ray; Osterman, Paul – 1989
The Economic Policy Institute (EPI) was founded in 1986 with the intent of widening the debate on U.S. economic policies by presenting analyses that provide an alternative point of view from those of various conservative research institutions. The two papers presented in this document were originally prepared for a seminar designed to identify…
Descriptors: Adults, Apprenticeships, Community Colleges, Community Programs
Braden, Paul V.; Paul, Krishan K. – 1979
Vocational education plays a significant role in the nation's economic development in terms of its capacity to make individuals more employable. It can respond to specific regional needs by producing the skilled workers for a rapidly growing industry. If, however, the industries of a region do not utilize the skills of the existing labor force, it…
Descriptors: Business Cycles, Coordination, Economic Development, Economic Factors
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Adams, Charles F., Jr.; And Others – Journal of Human Resources, 1983
This study demonstrates that the Public Service Employment (PSE) program had a significant net job-creation impact in 1978 and 1979. The difference in the estimates for these two years and fiscal 1977 indicate a substantial effect from the changes in the program's design, including tighter eligibility criteria and requirement of a project approach…
Descriptors: Economic Factors, Employment Opportunities, Federal Programs, Job Development
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Community College Journal, 2005
This article presents an interview with Emily Stover DeRocco, Assistant Secretary of the Employment and Training Administration, U.S. Department of Labor. In this interview, the assistant secretary answers probing questions about the Community College Initiative, the workforce system, and the training funds directed through the workforce system.
Descriptors: Job Training, Labor Market, Labor Force Development, Economic Change
Lips, Dan; McNeill, Jena Baker – Heritage Foundation, 2009
The authors express reservations about additional federal funding for the National Science Foundation, including new funding for science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education programs, provided by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. For more than 50 years, American political, business, military, and academic leaders…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Engineering Education, Science Education, Mathematics Education
Nee, David – Journal of Children in Contemporary Society, 1989
The following social problems suggest the need for an intergenerational movement in the United States: (1) the social isolation of old and young; (2) the political and social strain resulting from Federal budget allocations; and (3) the labor shortage and its impact on social services. Programs linking elders and the young can address these…
Descriptors: Children, Federal Programs, High Risk Persons, Intergenerational Programs
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
Stern, Barry E. – Thrust: The Journal for Employment and Training Professionals, 1979
Federal policies that properly integrate education and work are analyzed. The job shortage problem is likely to be resolved by a strategy that promotes economic expansion and greater flexibility in working life, combined with a more equitable distribution of work, leisure, and education among all age groups. (CT)
Descriptors: Economic Progress, Education Work Relationship, Federal Programs, Labor Market
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources. – 1994
This document contains testimony from two Senate hearings on the Reemployment and Training Act of 1994 by U.S. Secretary of Labor Robert B. Reich and other witnesses concerning the Act and the need for changes in the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act, which requires employers to notify employees of impending layoffs.…
Descriptors: Adults, Dislocated Workers, Employment Practices, Employment Programs
Cummens, John A. – 1981
The issues of harmonization and autonomy as they affect vocational education and manpower policy development and the implementation of program service delivery are analyzed. Some of the background issues that have affected the relationship of vocational education and manpower, in particular the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA), are…
Descriptors: Coordination, Educational Cooperation, Educational Policy, Federal Government
Franke, Walter H. – Illinois Vocational Education Journal, 1981
Discusses factors which affect the rate of productivity (the end of the farm-to-nonfarm shift, increased foreign competition, more highly educated workforce, rising cost of energy). Also discusses worker concerns over job security and how these concerns are reflected in union demands. (CT)
Descriptors: Employee Attitudes, Federal Programs, Job Security, Labor Demands
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