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Download full textCongress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Human Resources. – 1978
The complete texts of testimony and statements from the February and March, 1978, Hearings before the Senate Subcommittee on Employment, Poverty, and Migratory Labor regarding the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) Amendments of 1978 are presented in this document. (Hearing sites included Grand Rapids and Detroit, Michigan, Madison,…
Descriptors: Educational Programs, Employment Programs, Federal Aid, Federal Legislation
Wolters, Virginia; And Others – 1969
The New Careers concept involves helping the disadvantaged to help themselves, by offering them entry level jobs with the opportunity for advancement to the professional level. A definite hierarchy is established, with specific tasks and educational requirements defined for each level, and with the necessary training made available during the work…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Career Opportunities, Educationally Disadvantaged, Employment Opportunities
Riessman, Frank – 1967
The New Careers concept involves helping the disadvantaged to help themselves by offering them entry level jobs with the opportunity for training and advancement. New Careers provides the means to upgrade from entry level to professional occupations, with time made available during the work day for the education and training necessary for…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Career Opportunities, Educationally Disadvantaged, Employment Opportunities
Hamilton, Laurie S.; Muthard, John E. – 1973
The research and evaluation literature of several Federal Manpower training programs and the Federal-State Vocational Rehabilitation program was reviewed to determine effectiveness in reducing economic dependency among welfare recipients. Emphasis was on the Vocational Rehabilitation programs used for comparison. Significant findings are…
Descriptors: Economic Change, Economic Research, Economic Status, Economically Disadvantaged
Aboud, Grace – 1973
The trend in the early 1960's was toward manpower programs to help the unemployed and underemployed to get jobs and improve their job status through federally financed job training. The objective was to get those workers who had been trained in these programs into unsubsidized jobs. The trend toward job creation came later in the decade; the…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Economic Factors, Economically Disadvantaged, Employment Opportunities
Clague, Ewan; Kramer, Leo – 1976
Constituting an update to a previous publication that interpreted the directions of United States manpower policy subsequent to World War II, this publication places the previous essay in the historical context of manpower policies that reach back to the Great Depression of the 1930's and the Employment Act of 1946; and to policy options now…
Descriptors: Economic Factors, Employment Programs, Federal Government, Federal Legislation
WOLFBEIN, SEYMOUR L. – 1967
DURING THE EARLY 1960'S, THREE PRIMARY CHANGES OCCURRED IN THE UNITED STATES WHICH CALLED FOR A BASIC REORIENTATION IN ATTITUDES, POLICIES, AND PROGRAMS OF ACTION. INVOLVED WERE (1) AN ECONOMIC POLICY TO REDUCE UNEMPLOYMENT THROUGH ECONOMIC GROWTH (1964 REVENUE ACT), (2) AN ACTIVE MANPOWER POLICY TO PROVIDE A TRAINED LABOR SUPPLY (1965 MANPOWER…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Economic Progress, Economically Disadvantaged, Employment Level
