This report, along with its supplemental volumes, assesses the welfare system and its successes and failures, describes the frustrations felt by the poor in the United States, and proposes a basic change in public assistance policy. America's state and federal governments spend more than $150 billion a year on programs to alleviate poverty, yet…

This report provides an overview of the current welfare system. The number and size of federal public assistance programs have increased during the past 25 years, with particular growth in noncash benefit programs, which now constitute about three-quarters of all means-tested assistance. From mid-1983 to mid-1984, more than 52.5 million Americans…

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…

This guide to the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) was prepared by the Wisconsin League of Women Voters to aid women in that state in gaining the full benefits of the Act's provisions. The guide is organized in eight sections. The first two sections introduce the guide and outline the provisions of the JTPA. The third section explains who runs…

The General Accounting Office (GAO) commented on H.R. 2039, which would amend both the adult and youth titles of the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA). GAO's analysis suggested the following: (1) although H.R. 2039 proposes to target greater resources to those who are hard to serve by requiring that 50 percent of adult JTPA participants have one…

This paper, meant to stimulate discussion within the employment and training community, offers a wide range of strategies for keeping clients enrolled in Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) programs. Issues discussed include the following: (1) why retention is important; (2) gathering and analyzing information; (3) links between client recruitment…

This document contains a transcript of a hearing concerning the proposed Community Partnership for Employment and Training Act (H.R. 5320) and two related bills (H.R. 5461 and H.R. 5533). The transcript York, New York). Act proposes to establish a community public-private training and employment assistance system and to provide employment and…

This report submitted to the Congress from the Committee on Human Resources contains the Career Education Incentive Act, a bill which provides federal financial incentives to states to develop, implement, and strengthen career education programs. A summary of the bill follows a chronological review of the legislation's consideration in Congress.…

THE ALLIED HEALTH PROFESSIONS PERSONNEL ACT OF 1966 AUTHORIZES THE SURGEON GENERAL TO MAKE GRANTS TO EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS FOR THE PURPOSE OF IMPROVING PROGRAMS WHICH QUALIFY STUDENTS (1) FOR THE BACCALAUREATE DEGREE OR ITS EQUIVALENT OR THE MASTER'S DEGREE TO THE EXTENT REQUIRED FOR BASIC PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATION, REGISTRATION, OR LICENSURE…

Focused on in this review is the extent to which Newark's Hispanics participate as clients, advisors, employees, administrators, and policymakers in city manpower programs funded through the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act of 1973 (CETA). A standard of 15% (estimated total Hispanic population in Newark) is used for measuring Hispanic…

The influence of the National Defense Education Act (NDEA) on language education is considered in this study. Special emphasis is given to continuing issues and questions, research in language and language education, fellowships, NDEA language and area centers, institutes and teacher education. There is a chapter on state services, equipment, and…

The Advisory Council reviews the administration of programs funded under Title V of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to strengthen State departments of education, and makes recommendations for the future development of State educational agencies through comprehensive educational planning. Topics covered include (1) staffing…

Evaluated is a project to increase services for socially maladjusted pupils in four New York City schools located in institutional settings. Additional teaching staff, equipment, and supplies were allotted to these schools under Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) Title I programs. The degree of implementation of the plan to augment…

This reprint of a chapter from the annual comprehensive Presidential report on the nation's manpower problems and federal programs discusses: (1) major legislative developments, (2) program evolution and innovation, (3) meeting the needs of special groups, (4) administering and delivering manpower services, (5) strengthening the unemployment…

This document records the oral and written testimony of witnesses who testified at 2 days of U.S. Senate oversight hearings on Job Corps programs. Witnesses included several Senators who have been involved in Job Corps legislation since the program's beginning in 1968, Job Corps program completers and dropouts, and local officials in areas of Job…