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Download full textKoralek, Robin; Johnson, Heidi; Ratcliffe, Caroline; Vericker, Tracy – Urban Institute (NJ1), 2010
This report presents the final results for the evaluation of the New Americans Centers (NACs) demonstration project in Arkansas and Iowa. It focuses on program operations and plans for program sustainability, while highlighting services provided through the demonstration projects in Arkansas and Iowa. It also documents outcomes for New Iowan…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Demonstration Programs, Job Training, Career Centers
National Alliance of Business, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1987
An Enterprise Zone Working Group brought together enterprise zone directors, Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) program administrators, and private industry council representatives from the state and local levels. It discussed ways in which employment and training programs could better coordinate with development activities in enterprise zones.…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Cooperative Programs, Coordination, Economic Development
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1992
This document records the oral and written testimony of persons participating in a U.S. House of Representatives hearing on employment and training needs during the current recession. Testimony was given by leaders of youth education and jobs programs, congressional representatives, a college president, and several unemployed workers. Witnesses…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Economic Development, Employment Problems
Cichon, Donald; And Others – 1985
This report presents findings of the first phase of an evaluation of the Targeted Assistance Program (TAP), A Federal program which funds services and projects that assist refugees in attaining economic self-sufficiency and reduced dependency upon public assistance. Following an executive summary and other materials, the report is divided into…
Descriptors: County Programs, Economic Development, Employment Programs, Federal Aid
White, Susan J. – 1980
Interest in encouraging linkages between economic development efforts of various federal agencies with the job development and training activities of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) led, in 1979, to the development of an interagency effort, the Employment Initiatives Program, and the signing of six interagency agreements with…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Agency Cooperation, Community Development
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House. – 1994
This document contains the text and a section-by-section analysis of the proposed Reemployment Act of 1994, along with President Clinton's message in transmitting the act to Congress. The document reports that job seekers today have a difficult time getting information about jobs and training. The underlying problem is the lack of a coherent…
Descriptors: Dislocated Workers, Economic Development, Educational Needs, Employment Programs
Fox, Shirley – 1985
A project sought ways in which colleges and universities can work more closely with the federally funded Job Training Partnership Act to help the unemployed find work and to encourage business startups and expansion. Partnerships between postsecondary educational institutions and Private Industry Councils (PICs) at six sites were encouraged during…
Descriptors: Colleges, Cooperation, Cooperative Programs, Dislocated Workers
Royall, Robert V., Jr. – 1985
A governor-appointed committee examined South Carolina's job training systems and developed recommendations on providing more effective and efficient job training. A consensus was first developed on conditions that currently exist in the areas of job training, job training's relationship to economic development, and services to target groups.…
Descriptors: Coordination, Dislocated Workers, Economic Development, Economically Disadvantaged
Ludwig, Terry; And Others – 1984
The Admiral Corporation, the Illinois Department of Commerce and Community Affairs (DCCA), the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE), the area administrative entity for the Job Training Partnership Act (JPTA), and Carl Sandburg Community College (CSCC) recently joined in an effort to provide training and jobs for unemployed workers in…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Cooperative Programs, Economic Development, Employment Programs
Sandefur, Gary D. – 1991
American Indian unemployment remains high despite efforts by tribes and the federal government to improve employment opportunities. Persistently high unemployment among Indians has resulted in low family incomes and high poverty rates relative to Whites. Particularly serious on reservations, these continuing problems are related in part to low…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, American Indian Reservations, American Indians, Economic Development
Brady, Elaine M.; Balfe, Kevin – 1987
A study examined local and state-level collaboration between the Job Training Partnership System (JTPA) and four other programs: the Employment Service, vocational education, welfare, and economic development. Methods included telephone interviews with 46 state managing agencies for JTPA, 205 service delivery area administrators, and 209 Private…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Cooperative Programs, Economic Development, Employment Programs
National Inst. for Work and Learning, Washington, DC. – 1985
Case studies are provided of the six sites involved in a demonstration project to encourage partnerships between postsecondary educational institutions and Private Industry Councils (PICs). These programs represent instances of collaborations between colleges/universities and the Job Training Partnership Act to help the unemployed find work and…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Colleges, Cooperation, Cooperative Programs
Federal Extension Service (USDA), Washington, DC. – 1965
COUNTY AND STATE EXTENSION WORKERS MAY USE THESE FACT SHEETS FOR 35 FEDERAL-STATE PROGRAMS IN SIX MAJOR AREAS OF HUMAN RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT TO ACQUAINT THEMSELVES AND THEIR COMMUNITIES WITH PROGRAM PROVISIONS AND ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS. THE PROGRAMS ARE CLASSIFIED AS (1) COMMUNITY PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT WHICH INCLUDE ADVANCES FOR PUBLIC WORKS…
Descriptors: Community Planning, Developmental Programs, Economic Development, Educational Programs
Levitan, Sar A.; Gallo, Frank – 1991
This paper explores the role of public jobs programs in the U.S. economy from the 1930s to the present. It postulates that jobs programs are necessary because they serve four separate but overlapping needs: alleviating joblessness, hardship, and poverty; helping the economy emerge from recession; providing jobs to able-bodied welfare recipients;…
Descriptors: Adults, Cost Effectiveness, Disadvantaged Youth, Economic Development
Taggart, Robert – 1983
In times of economic recession, dollars for job training and job placement programs grow scarcer, and those that are available tend to go to middle-class workers who are displaced or temporarily unemployed. The structurally unemployed--primarily the poor, the less educated, and minority youth--find it harder to compete for the needed training, and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Disadvantaged Youth, Economic Development, Educational Needs
