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Download full textCongress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources. – 1995
This congressional report addresses the Workforce Development Act of 1995 that would consolidate federal employment training programs and create a new process and structure for funding the programs. Contents include the following: a summary of the bill; background and need for the legislation; history of the legislation and votes in committee;…
Descriptors: Cost Estimates, Employment Programs, Federal Aid, Federal Legislation
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
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. – 1985
This publication reports on a recent study that compared the new Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) with its predecessor, the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA). The study was conducted to determine how the JTPA limit on money for program administration affected the type of individual served and the training provided in the…
Descriptors: Employment Programs, Federal Programs, Job Training, Participant Characteristics
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Div. of Human Resources. – 1985
This document profiles 150 Federal benefit programs that provide cash on noncash assistance to persons demonstrating need or who qualify for benefits as a result of either contributions made by them or on their behalf or military service. These programs spent more than $400 billion in Federal tax dollars in fiscal year 1983, excluding…
Descriptors: Eligibility, Federal Aid, Federal Programs, Program Administration
Cordes, Joseph; And Others – 1979
This second volume of the Head Start Program and Cost Data Analysis Final Report analyzes data from sources other than the Head Start Program Information Report (PIR). The report is divided into three sections: Distributional Impact of Head Start Financing, Pilot Study of Program Compliance, and Recommendations for Secondary Data Analysis. The…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Compliance (Legal), Eligibility, Federal Programs
National Science Foundation, Washington, DC. Div. of Science Information. – 1970
This annual report describes the accomplishments of the Office of Science Information Service toward meeting its goal of closing the gap between the information needs of scientists now being served and those needs which must be met in the future. Program emphasis was placed on information systems development, operational support for services and…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Budgets, Federal Programs, Government Role
Shanks, Robb L., Comp. – 1973
The Policy Committee of the Upper Midwest Regional Interstate Project saw a need to inform the State Education Agencies (SEAs) concerning the implications of federal program indirect costs. The Indirect Cost Workshop was established to develop communication concerning the problems between the United States Office of Education (USOE), SEAs, and…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Federal Aid, Federal Government, Federal Legislation
Institute of International Studies (DHEW/OE), Washington, DC. – 1973
A survey is presented of the scope of the program of the Agency for International Development in the field of educational assistance to certain developing countries. The survey revises and updates previous surveys completed annually since 1966. The regions of the world in which A.I.D. operates--Africa, the Near East and South Asia, Latin America,…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Educational Programs, Federal Aid, Federal Programs
Hoffman, Charlotte – American Education, 1977
Model programs funded under the Women's Educational Equity Act (WEEA) and administered by the Office of Education Women's Program staff are intended to reach girls and women from low-income and middle-age groups those from American-Indian, Asian- and Pacific-American, black, and Spanish-speaking backgrounds, and those from rural, urban, and…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Federal Aid, Federal Programs
Administration for Children, Youth, and Families (DHHS), Washington, DC. Head Start Bureau. – 1995
This fact sheet provides statistical information about Project Head Start. Data are presented for the following categories: (1) budget--actual for fiscal year 1994 and the 1995 appropriation; (2) enrollment; (3) number of sites; (4) average cost per child; (5) number of staff and volunteers; and (6) enrollment and congressional appropriates from…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Enrollment, Federal Programs, Home Programs
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1989
Hearings were held on the reauthorization of the Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) and the extension of the Child Nutrition and National School Lunch Acts. Testimony on WIC concerns: the importance of and need for the WIC program; state and federal funding of the program; program effectiveness; experiences of…
Descriptors: Federal Government, Federal Legislation, Federal Programs, Government Role
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Div. of Human Resources. – 1990
This report describes the Department of Education's process for estimating costs of the Pell grant program, which provides grants to financially needy students pursuing a postsecondary education. The Department uses a three-step process to develop its Pell grant budget estimate: a computer cost model incorporating over 30 economic indicators, a…
Descriptors: Cost Estimates, Federal Programs, Higher Education, Income Contingent Loans
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Div. of Human Resources. – 1987
In 1985, the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (FEHBP) reserves had accumulated over $2 billion in reserve surplus, precipitating the program's first refund. Concerned about FEHBP reserve practices, the chairman of the House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service, United States Congress, asked the General Accounting Office (GAO) to…
Descriptors: Cost Estimates, Federal Programs, Federal Regulation, Financial Problems
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1986
This report of a hearing before the House Subcommittee on Employment concerns the implementation of the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA). Witnesses addressed concerns about the program's allegedly unspent funds and the proposed funding cuts. Testimony was heard from William E. Brock, Secretary of Labor, and Raymond Flynn, Mayor of Boston,…
Descriptors: Employment Programs, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Federal Programs, Federal State Relationship
Smith, R. C. – Manpower, 1975
The North Carolina Manpower Development Corporation recently experimented with two methods of program evaluation (the tax payback method and the earn back method) and found strengths and weaknesses in each. (Author/BP)
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Educational Finance, Evaluation Methods, Expenditure per Student
