The Office of Workforce Development (OWD) in New Orleans, Louisiana, with a grant from the U.S. Department of Labor, implemented Career Pathways, an innovative program designed to increase the local talent pool and help lower-skilled, unemployed, and underemployed individuals train for work in growing fields. RAND Corporation researchers evaluated…

The alliance of private industry and the schools has produced many excellent job-oriented education programs for the potential school dropout, the hard-core unemployed, and the underemployed. However, the majority of educators and businessmen throughout the country probably are not aware of the variety of cooperative training ventures that have…

An evaluation of the Job Opportunities in the Business Sectors (JOBS) program revealed that JOBS should be continued as a Federally assisted manpower program since it has demonstrated a viable role for business in manpower training. As a result of JOBS disadvantaged, unemployed, and underemployed persons have been elevated above poverty income…

This is a report on 18 months of work done in an experimental and demonstration project designed to develop ways to meet in-plant skill needs by upgrading the job skills of entry level (mostly minority group) workers and by improving capacity for better employee-supervisor relationships. Project activity took place in three cities--Newark,…

The book, a condensation of the deliberations of a conference called by the National Graduate University under the sponsorship of the Bruner Foundation of New York City, contains proposals by experts from all areas for improving employability. The conference purpose was to provide for an exchange of the latest ideas, information, and methods of…

This annual report is the ninth in a series of reports concerning the activities of the New York State Education Department in the manpower training effort, and it offers a narrative description and rationale of the activities of the Bureaus of Manpower Program Development and Manpower Program Supervision during 1971. The goals of the manpower…

A copy of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act of 1973 (CETA) as amended in 1977 and a summary of the act's provisions with rationale for the amendments constitute this report. The 1977 version of the bill includes provisions for (1) extension of the authorization of all titles of CETA through 1978, (2) extension through 1978 the…

The report presents a review of institutional manpower training programs conducted in the State during the 1973 Federal fiscal year. Two major manpower training objectives are used for the basis of the report: to provide education, supportive services, and training opportunities for unemployed and underemployed individuals and to provide education…

Skill Upgrading in Cleveland (SUIC) is one of three manpower training and upgrading organizations which was funded to replicate and further test the High Intensity Training (HIT) model for upgrading underemployed workers. This report is a summary of activities aimed at upgrading low-skill, low-wage workers within a plant setting and with small…

The study described in this report was undertaken to provide a comprehensive understanding of the magnitude and scope of the present contingent work force and the potential of the contingent work force as a mechanism for assisting minority and female workers to enter into the mainstream work force. The study first examined the literature and body…

The combined impact of all federally assisted manpower programs in the Atlanta area was evaluated, with emphasis on outreach, eligibility, identification of needs and abilities, and screening for course assignment. In fiscal year 1970, training was provided for 10,300 persons and job placement for 5,600, although most of the estimated 70,000 poor…

Stagnant or declining wages for less-educated workers make policies to upgrade the job market options for low wage workers an urgent priority. One in three low wage workers lives in a low income family. The link between low basic skills and low wages is strong. No single standard of minimum skill requirements applies to all middle income jobs, and…

This study describes four developmental stages of Training and Technology (TAT), a human resources development activity begun 7 years ago by the Oak Ridge Associated Universities for the U. S. Department of Labor. The first year's project, in 1966, surveyed manpower development and training in universities, industry, and government in 15 Southern…

The New York Industrial Education Centers combined the application of basic literacy, basic mathematics, and human development skills with exhaustive job development and placement efforts to secure jobs and upward mobility for persons 17-65 classified as disadvantaged. Training was conducted in 10-week cycles, with 100 trainees at each of two…