In periods of nonrecessionary activity, United States government policymakers should subsidize retraining as they subsidize job search by way of the unemployment compensation system. The retraining subsidy to a person who is faced with a reduced demand for his services from his current job should be about the same order of magnitude as the…

The Displaced Homemakers Network surveyed its 425 programs in the winter of 1985 to determine the extent and nature of services to displaced homemakers under the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA). Also sought was information about the barriers to JTPA that kept program operators from bidding successfully for contracts. Finally, the survey…

For this report, which is a combination of the fourth and fifth annual reports on the subject, the FICE gathered data from 23 federal departments and agencies on program funds awarded to each of 114 predominantly black colleges. This data is compared with similar data collected for all higher education institutions in the country. Data include…