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National Service Programs. AmeriCorps*USA--First-Year Experience and Recent Program Initiatives. Statement for the Record of Cornelia M. Blanchette, Associate Director, Education and Employment Issues, Health, Education, and Human Services Division. Testimony before the Committee on Labor and Human Resources, U.S. Senate.
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General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Health, Education, and Human Services Div. – 1996
AmeriCorps is the largest national and community service program since the Civilian Conservation Corps of the 1930s. Data from meeting with officials of AmeriCorps*USA; examination of grant files for all grantees' programs; review of Corporation program policies, guidance, and plans; random sampling of programs; and site visits to seven…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Educational Finance, Federal Programs, Program Costs
Seniors in National and Community Service: A Report Prepared for the Commonwealth Fund's Americans over 55 at Work Program.
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Freedman, Marc – 1994
National service offers an appealing vehicle for engaging senior citizens to respond to unmet needs in education, health care, public safety, the environment, and other essential areas. Involving seniors in national service will help alleviate the country's pressing domestic problems, enhancing participants' personal development, and bolstering…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Federal Programs, Intergenerational Programs, Middle Aged Adults
Assessing the Feasibility of Large-Scale Countercyclical Job-Creation. Final Report, Volume I, Overview and Summary.
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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
Assessing the Feasibility of Large-Scale Countercyclical Public Job-Creation. Final Report, Volume II. Activities Suitable for Public Job-Creation and Their Characteristics.
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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
Public Employment and Training Assistance: Alternative Federal Approaches.
Hobbie, Richard A.; Fein, Alan – 1977
An analysis of the structural elements of the employment situation was done in 1977 to provide congressional members with pertinent information for their use in making policy decisions about federal role and budget in employment and training programs. It was concluded that the Federal Government can implement four basic budget strategies: create…
Descriptors: Budgets, Disadvantaged, Economically Disadvantaged, Employment Patterns
Assessing the Feasibility of Large-Scale Countercyclical Public Job-Creation. Final Report, Volume III. Selected Implications of Public Job-Creation.
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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