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Download full textConnors, Tad – 1983
A policy that addresses youth unemployment with monetary expansion for similar fiscal policies is criticized as compounding the problem, and alternative solutions are offered. Accordingly, a brief look at youth labor market characteristics, pertinent labor market theory, and the present industrial distribution of employed youth is offered. A…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Career Education, Employment Opportunities, Employment Patterns
Clark, Robert – 1977
This fifteenth special report of the National Commission for Manpower Policy examines the interplay between the forces determining work schedules and the incidence and prevalence of unemployment. In the first chapter the author sets forth the major trends in hours of work and in the changing structure of the labor force that has led increasingly…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Employer Employee Relationship, Employment Patterns, Employment Practices
Ginzberg, Eli, Ed. – 1976
Written under a contract with the National Commission for Manpower Policy, this book contains eight chapters (each by a separate author) intended to aid in charting a national employment strategy and assessing the goal of full employment. Three main themes that pervade the book are (1) the responsibility of the federal government to create jobs,…
Descriptors: Economic Factors, Economic Research, Employment, Employment Opportunities
Rose, Nancy E. – 1995
This book traces the development of public assistance programs in the United States from the 1930s to the present. Throughout the book, the differences between workfare and fair work programs and the role of workfare programs in the growing impoverishment of women are emphasized. The following topics are examined: women, welfare, and government…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Blacks, Client Characteristics (Human Services), Education Work Relationship
Maine State Dept. of Human Services, Augusta. – 1981
A committee examined the number, type, and quality of work and training opportunities available for heads of households under Maine's Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) Program and suggested ways to improve them. Comprised of such representatives of the private and public sectors as employers, AFDC recipients, welfare advocates,…
Descriptors: Coordination, Economic Development, Educational Cooperation, Educational Finance
Mangum, Garth, Ed.; Mangum, Stephen, Ed. – 1996
This book contains 17 social policy essays on various topics related to labor and full employment policies in the United States. The following papers are included: "Introduction" (Stephen Mangum); "Secular Rabbi: The Life and Times of Sar A. Levitan" (Garth Mangum); "Young Workers, Young Families, and Child Poverty"…
Descriptors: Accountability, Adult Education, At Risk Persons, Block Grants
