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McCarthy, Mary Alice; Van Horn, Carl; Prebil, Michael – New America, 2021
When the COVID-19 pandemic plunged the economy back into recession in early 2020, it laid bare a fragile and profoundly inequitable labor market. The economic expansion that reigned from 2009 through 2019 brought historically low unemployment and inflation but failed to reduce income inequality or arrest the decline in the number of high-quality,…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Employment Programs, Public Policy, Educational Policy
Worklife, 1977
Excerpts from President Carter's economic message to the Congress, proposing a recovery package which included (1) an increase of authorizations for local public works, (2) an expansion of public service employment, (3) expansion of training and youth programs under the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA), and (4) an increase in the…
Descriptors: Employment Programs, Federal Government, Government Role, Job Development
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Div. of Human Resources. – 1986
Between July 1981 and November 1982, the United States experienced the worst economic recession of the post-World War II period. In response, Congress in March 1983 enacted the Emergency Jobs Appropriations Act, whose objectives were: (1) to provide productive employment for jobless Americans; (2) to hasten or initiate federal projects and…
Descriptors: Employment, Employment Opportunities, Employment Programs, Federal Government

Rose, Nancy E. – Journal of Progressive Human Services, 1990
Examines two government voluntary job creation programs: the Works Progress Administration in the 1930s and the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act in the 1970s, that have created conflicts with the logic of capitalist production for profit. Suggests principles and policies for a progressive government work program. (JOW)
Descriptors: Capitalism, Employment Programs, Federal Government, Federal Programs
Stevenson, Gloria – Worklife, 1977
A review of proposed employment strategies and priorities of Ray Marshall, Secretary of Labor, with regard to training programs, governmental subsidy programs, apprenticeships, private sector jobs, etc. (WL)
Descriptors: Employment Programs, Federal Government, Government Role, Human Resources
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1986
The amendments to the Job Training Partnership Act refine the existing statute without disrupting basic program operations. The major provisions make adjustments in the following areas: (1) definition of economically disadvantaged; (2) designation of service delivery area; (3) the Literacy and Dropout Prevention Program; (4) protection for the…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Employment, Employment Opportunities, Employment Programs
Levitan, Sar A.; Mangum, Stephen L. – 1994
The current displaced worker initiative towers over the 30-year effort to bring the economically disadvantaged into the mainstream of the labor market. The Congressional Budget Office defines displacement as all workers 18 years of age and older who lose full-time employment due to slack work, job abolition, or plant closure. Major displaced…
Descriptors: Dislocated Workers, Economically Disadvantaged, Employment Programs, Federal Aid
Comptroller General of the U.S., Washington, DC. – 1983
A formal review was conducted to assess the efforts made by federal agencies to implement the 1983 Emergency Jobs Appropriations Act (EJAA). (The EJAA provided emergency supplemental appropriations to provide productive employment for jobless Americans, to hasten or initiate federal projects and construction of lasting value to the nation, and to…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Construction Programs, Employment Programs, Federal Government
Bendick, Marc, Jr. – 1982
The federal government needs to provide employment and training assistance to help dislocated workers to become reemployed. Worker mobility assistance should not be focused upon as a major thrust of reemployment programs, since American workers are remarkably resistant to pressures to move to more promising labor markets. Efficient and effective…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Career Education, Employment Programs, Employment Services
Prieto, Jose Maria; And Others – 1991
This publication contains four national studies, conducted in Spain, France, the United Kingdom, and Italy, that collected data on the role of training as an element of support for business start-up and as an essential factor for the survival of newly established businesses. The study of the Spanish situation examines public and private bodies…
Descriptors: Business Administration, Business Administration Education, Employed Women, Employment Programs
Urban Inst., Washington, DC. – 1978
The feasibility of large-scale, countercyclical public job-creation was assessed. Focus was on how many job-creating activities could be undertaken as well as the job-creation potential and costs of these activities. Data was collected through field visits made to Washington-based federal government and national organizations and to twenty-four…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Employment Opportunities, Employment Problems, Employment Programs
Urban Inst., Washington, DC. – 1978
This second of a three-volume report of a study done to assess the feasibility of large-scale, countercyclical public job creation contains chapter 2 of the report on the methods and findings with respect to job-creating activities, their job-creation potential, and related characteristics. (Volume 1, comprised of the report's first chapter,…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Employment Opportunities, Employment Problems, Employment Programs
Connors, 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
Urban Inst., Washington, DC. – 1978
This last of a three-volume report of a study done to assess the feasibility of large-scale, countercyclical public job creation covers the findings regarding the priorities among projects, indirect employment effects, skill imbalances, and administrative issues; and summarizes the overall findings, conclusions, and recommendations. (Volume 1,…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Employment Opportunities, Employment Problems, Employment Programs
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