Identifies common threads in lives of those who escape ghetto. (Editor)

A broad overview of the changing relationships between employers and the Employment Service is presented, with special emphasis on the need for increased cooperation. The National Employers Committee report and a private consulting firm report are discussed. (SA)

The Engineering Opportunity Program (EOP) at the Newark College of Engineering has been successful in bringing black and other disadvantaged youth, who could not otherwise qualify, into the college as engineering students, without sacrificing the school's academic standards, by using special programs and tutoring as needed. (SA)

Job restructuring can play an important part in preparing the unskilled for today's society and in easing the United States into the postindustrial era. (BC)

LSW Industries has one feature that distinguishes it from other small firms in that every full-time employee is classified as "disadvantaged"--either poor, from a minority group, handicapped, a migrant worker, a parolee, poorly educated, or a combination of these. (Author/BP)

Special instruction improved the test-taking skills of the culturally deprived and undereducated on employment tests and other commonly used screening devices. (CH)

Opportunities Industrialization Centers see profit motive as key to helping the poor. (Editor)

A vocational retraining program for disadvantaged ghetto residents at the Sequential Computer Corporation. Trainees received on the job training, counseling, and jobs after they completed the program. (BC)

In July 1968, the First National City Bank in New York (Citibank) received a government contract to train the disadvantaged by providing orientation, counseling, job related education, supervisor training, child care, transportation, and some medical and dental care. The Job Opportunities in the Business Sector Program (JOBS) stipulated pay of $70…