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McCarthy, Mary Alice; Van Horn, Carl; Prebil, Michael – New America, 2021
When the COVID-19 pandemic plunged the economy back into recession in early 2020, it laid bare a fragile and profoundly inequitable labor market. The economic expansion that reigned from 2009 through 2019 brought historically low unemployment and inflation but failed to reduce income inequality or arrest the decline in the number of high-quality,…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Employment Programs, Public Policy, Educational Policy
Office of Management and Budget, Executive Office of the President, 2021
The "Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal Year 2022" contains the Budget Message of the President, information on the President's priorities, and summary tables. The Budget includes two historic plans the President has already put forward--the American Jobs Plan and the American Families Plan--and outlines a package of…
Descriptors: Federal Government, Budgets, Expenditures, Public Agencies
Office of Management and Budget, Executive Office of the President, 2020
The "Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal Year 2021" contains the Budget Message of the President, information on the President's priorities, and summary tables. This year's Budget includes $4.4 trillion in savings--bringing deficits down each year, and putting the Federal Government on a path to a balanced budget in 15 years.…
Descriptors: Federal Government, Budgets, Expenditures, Public Agencies
Chukwumezie, F. U.; Osapka, David U. – African Educational Research Journal, 2015
This study investigated entrepreneurship opportunities and Nigerian graduates' unemployment in south-east and south-south geopolitical zones. The study adopted a survey-descriptive design because the events had taken place in their natural course of happening. Two hundred lecturers and Entrepreneurship Development Centers' Staff constituted the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Graduates, Entrepreneurship, Employment Opportunities
Amos, Jason, Ed. – Alliance for Excellent Education, 2011
"Straight A's: Public Education Policy and Progress" is a biweekly newsletter that focuses on education news and events both in Washington, DC and around the country. The following articles are included in this issue: (1) Obama Sets Timeline for NCLB Revamp: President Calls on Congress to Send Him an Education Reform Bill "Before…
Descriptors: Graduation Rate, Leadership Effectiveness, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
Alper, Joe; Amato, Ivan – Executive Office of the President, 2010
The National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) is the U.S. Government's crosscutting program that coordinates Federal research and development (R&D) activities in nanoscale science, engineering, technology, and related efforts among various participating agencies. The Federal Government launched the NNI in FY 2001 with an initial $500 million…
Descriptors: Economic Progress, Research and Development, Program Effectiveness, Federal Government
Worklife, 1977
Excerpts from President Carter's economic message to the Congress, proposing a recovery package which included (1) an increase of authorizations for local public works, (2) an expansion of public service employment, (3) expansion of training and youth programs under the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA), and (4) an increase in the…
Descriptors: Employment Programs, Federal Government, Government Role, Job Development
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Div. of Human Resources. – 1986
Between July 1981 and November 1982, the United States experienced the worst economic recession of the post-World War II period. In response, Congress in March 1983 enacted the Emergency Jobs Appropriations Act, whose objectives were: (1) to provide productive employment for jobless Americans; (2) to hasten or initiate federal projects and…
Descriptors: Employment, Employment Opportunities, Employment Programs, Federal Government

Rose, Nancy E. – Journal of Progressive Human Services, 1990
Examines two government voluntary job creation programs: the Works Progress Administration in the 1930s and the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act in the 1970s, that have created conflicts with the logic of capitalist production for profit. Suggests principles and policies for a progressive government work program. (JOW)
Descriptors: Capitalism, Employment Programs, Federal Government, Federal Programs
Danziger, Sheldon; And Others – 1977
The administration recently announced a broad overhaul of the welfare system called the program for better jobs and income. This proposed plan would consolidate three major components of the current welfare system and provide, for the first time, a nationwide minimum federal cash payment for all the poor. In this paper the existing welfare system…
Descriptors: Federal Aid, Federal Government, Government Role, Income

DiPrete, Thomas A. – American Journal of Sociology, 1987
The results of a statistical analysis of personnel outcomes for 15 federal government agencies showed that upward mobility for women and minorities increased as a result of special programs established to counter trends toward increasing professionalization within the government. (JDH)
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Federal Government, Job Development
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on the Budget. – 1983
This 2-day Congressional hearing on the impact of defense spending on the economy focuses on three aspects of the relationship between expenditures for national defense and the state of the economy: jobs, inflation, and long-run growth. Testimony includes statements, prepared statements, and additional information submitted for the record by…
Descriptors: Career Education, Economic Progress, Economics, Expenditures
Stevenson, Gloria – Worklife, 1977
A review of proposed employment strategies and priorities of Ray Marshall, Secretary of Labor, with regard to training programs, governmental subsidy programs, apprenticeships, private sector jobs, etc. (WL)
Descriptors: Employment Programs, Federal Government, Government Role, Human Resources
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1986
The amendments to the Job Training Partnership Act refine the existing statute without disrupting basic program operations. The major provisions make adjustments in the following areas: (1) definition of economically disadvantaged; (2) designation of service delivery area; (3) the Literacy and Dropout Prevention Program; (4) protection for the…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Employment, Employment Opportunities, Employment Programs

Dellums, Ronald V. – Black Scholar, 1986
Analyzes the Federal government's record, since the 1930s, on issues affecting employment and the economic well-being of Blacks. Throughout the last 50 years, legislative efforts to create full employment have been directly hampered by poor implementation, weak leadership, and a tendency, highly visible in the Reagan era, to place expenditures for…
Descriptors: Black Employment, Employment Opportunities, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Federal Government