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LeMasurier, Joseph; Kaszuba, Michael J. – Manpower, 1975
Descriptors: Employment Problems, Federal Programs, Job Development, Job Placement
Fratoe, Frank A. – Rural Development Perspectives, 1980
Efforts to determine the effectiveness of federal youth employment training programs have indicated that positive results are accompanied by persistent problems. Available from: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Rm. 456 GHI Bldg., Washington, D.C. 20250. (JD)
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Employment Problems, Employment Programs, Federal Programs
Download full textCongress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1986
This document contains the text of a congressional hearing focusing on successful private and public ventures in job training efforts. The purpose was to learn how to expand or extend programs in the private sector that provide job training to underskilled and undereducated workers in conjunction with the public sector. The bulk of the document…
Descriptors: Business, Cooperation, Cooperative Programs, Corporate Support
Peer reviewedGreene, Joshua – Education and Urban Society, 1981
Current federal youth employment programs have failed to meet the employment needs of disadvantaged youth. Programs should be revised to: (1) require all participants to receive remedial academic instruction on the high school level; and (2) train participants in at least one vocational skill for which there exists a local demand for youth…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Employment Problems, Employment Programs, Federal Programs
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Veterans' Affairs. – 1986
This document contains proceedings of a congressional hearing to review the employment programs for veterans administered by the Department of Labor. Its purpose is also to discuss structural and procedural changes being contemplated by that Department that could affect the delivery of services to veterans and perhaps jeopardize veterans' priority…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Employment Problems, Employment Programs, Employment Services
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1992
This document records the oral and written testimony of persons participating in a U.S. House of Representatives hearing on employment and training needs during the current recession. Testimony was given by leaders of youth education and jobs programs, congressional representatives, a college president, and several unemployed workers. Witnesses…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Economic Development, Employment Problems
National Commission for Manpower Policy, Washington, DC. – 1975
This report of the National Commission for Manpower Policy summarizes the findings and recommendations on Public Service Employment (PSE) along with considering other responses to continuing unemployment. This booklet's content is presented in two sections. Section 1 summarizes the findings and makes twenty-one recommendations pertaining to PSE,…
Descriptors: Employment Problems, Employment Programs, Federal Programs, Job Training
Steiger, JoAnn M.; Szanton, Eleanor S. – 1976
This document presents the conclusions and recommendations of a study conducted to explain the inequalities faced by low-income women in job training, employment, and earnings. The study explored the dimensions of the problems such women face, possible solutions, and the extent to which a group of Health Education and Welfare (HEW) and HEW-related…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Employed Women, Employment Problems, Equal Opportunities (Jobs)
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Science, Space and Technology. – 1987
This report summarizes a hearing to examine the factors contributing to pressures on United States workers and to suggest government, industry, and labor policies. Section I is an introduction. Section II identifies the panelists: Director, Conservation of Human Resources, Columbia University; President, United Steel Workers of America; Senior…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Dislocated Workers, Employment Patterns, Employment Problems
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Human Resources. – 1977
These hearings on Senate bill 418 (Displaced Homemakers Act, 1977) explore the problems or barriers confronting women (primarily middle-aged) who are seeking to reenter the labor force or enter it for the first time and ways that existing or new Federal programs can more adequately serve the needs of these women. The first of several witnesses…
Descriptors: Career Change, Counseling Services, Displaced Homemakers, Employment Problems
National Commission for Manpower Policy, Washington, DC. – 1975
This first interim report of the National Commission for Manpower Policy on the manpower challenges of 1975 was developed to (1) assess the extent to which federal manpower and manpower-related programs provide a structure capable of responding to the current unemployment problems and (2) consider some of the long-run critical manpower issues that…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Employment Problems, Employment Programs, Federal Legislation
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1977
These hearings focus on various measures submitted by President Carter and Congress to reduce unemployment, including an extension of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA), the Full Employment and Balanced Growth Act of 1977, and the President's economic stimulus proposals. Some of the primary testimony presented regarding the need…
Descriptors: Economic Factors, Employment Problems, Employment Programs, Employment Services
Women's Bureau (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1993
The Department of Labor Women's Bureau held 20 roundtable discussions and 4 public hearings in 1991 and 1992 to assess the success of government training and job assistance programs in meeting the needs of midlife women. During the discussions and hearings, more than 500 women between the ages of 35 and 54 shared their personal experiences, and…
Descriptors: Adults (30 to 45), Employed Women, Employment Problems, Employment Services
Mandell, Wallace; And Others – 1969
The central question of this research pertained to the degree to which Neighborhood Youth Corps (NYC) enrollees, NYC personnel, and potential employers shared a common frame of reference, and held similar views regarding the transactions involved in entering the world of work. This was studied by an examination of the work related perceptions of…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Behavior, Blacks, Disadvantaged Youth
Quiroz, Julia Teresa; Tosca, Regina – 1990
The Focus Study, conducted by the National Council of La Raza's Poverty Project, used structured discussions by focus groups to examine Mexican American women's opinions, needs, and attitudes as they relate to the implementation of the 1988 Family Support Act (FSA). FSA's primary objective is to move people off welfare through education, training,…
Descriptors: Community Coordination, Community Programs, Day Care, Discussion Groups
