A national policy of intensified training where the government contracts the economy to cool inflation may be the humane and efficient way to handle the two most vexing economic problems -- inflation and unemployment. The best evidence that the scheme can work is seen in Sweden. (Journal/EB)

In order to assess their effect on job inequality in private employment, a study was made of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Executive Order 11246, and federally aided employment service and job preparation programs with equal employment opportunity as an objective. Altogether, 250 interviews were conducted with federal officials…

Members of professional organizations, representing school libraries and audiovisual personnel, set up new standards for staffing the library media centers. These standards recognize that school libraries were taking on new and greater responsibilities and were incorporating more and more audiovisual functions which require a new professional…

This ninth Manpower Report of the President contains an overview of the 1970 employment and unemployment record, new developments in Manpower programs, urban and rural labor market problems, and government expenditures and manpower requirements. Policies adapted by the administration have ended the output decline and indications are that…

Research using Social Security data to measure the effects of government manpower training programs on the earnings of participants is discussed. Previous studies employed a longitudinal set of Social Security summary earnings records of over 50,000 individuals who participated in Manpower Development and Training Act (MDTA) institutional training…

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…

The seventh annual manpower report is presented in three parts: The Employment Record, Manpower Policy and Programs, and Manpower Research and Experimentation. Discussion of the employment record addresses employment developments and their economic background, patterns of employment growth, unemployment and underemployment, developments in the…