The U. S. Secretary of Labor regards the apprenticeship system as falling short of what it is capable of accomplishing and recommends the suggestions proposed by a task force for new initiatives to remedy the situation. (AG)

Training of professionals and technicians should be means to an end, not an end in itself. (Editor)

U.S. Employment Service meshes manpower needs at local level. (Editor)

Lack of long-range planning diminishes use of manpower policy as economic tool. (Editor)

A Manpower Administration study of nine geographical areas notable in manpower planning progress identified major determinants of successful local manpower planning as: support from high level, elected officials; clout; participation by agency administrators; labor market planning scope; management through budget; development of new planning…

The Comprehensive Employment and Training Act's efforts to coordinate manpower progrmas at the local level is currently causing a big rush to set up mechanisms to operate a manpower services system. Denver, however, started in mid-1973 reorganizing a bewildering variety of categorical manpower programs along functional lines. (DS)

Researchers explore ways to build job ladders for agricultural workers. (Editor)

Expansion of public employment is probably a wise strategy, but it is not above question. Certainly the evidence of its effectiveness is mixed, and it has hardly been subjected to careful analysis. (Author)

The Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA), less than one year old, represents a promising start and demonstrates that Federal, State, and local governments can work together to help people with serious employment problems compete more effectively for jobs. (Author/MW)

Discusses strategies to alleviate rural employment problems. (BH)

The article discusses the MWEP (Minority Women's Employment Program) funded by the Manpower Administration and designed to place underutilized college-educated minority women in managerial, professional, and technical jobs for which they qualify. The program is the first major attempt to apply outreach techniques to persons seeking white-collar…

The shortage of trained manpower remains a troublesome problem that must be overcome if the national attack on water pollution succeeds. The total number of persons treating waste water in 1967 was 11,300 professionals, 10,300 technicians, 23,500 sewage treatment plant operators, and 50,000 maintenance workers. (BC)