Despite the growing popularity of apprenticeships, pre-apprenticeships, and in-school youth apprenticeships in the United States, young adults who lack the credentials and connections to seamlessly enter postsecondary pathways remain overlooked. Young-adult-serving agencies and community-based organizations (CBOs) are underutilized key actors in…

The Job Opportunities in the Business Sector (JOBS) program has shown since its establishment in 1968 that a program involving hiring first, and then training, can be successful. Many employers with JOBS contracts have instituted effective programs to bring the disadvantaged into the labor force. However, there has been inadequate supervision of…

Despite a tightening job market and a shortage of matching funds by the states, the Work Incentive Program made good progress last year. (BH)

The Vermont Employment Service has developed a Federally funded program of subsidized public service jobs leading to regular non-subsidized employment, frequently by absorption into employers' regular work forces. (BP)

A review of Black Hawk College's experiences in Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) manpower programming, which lists some of the advantages and disadvantages of community college involvement in the programs, and points out other manpower related problems. (WL)

Specific areas that form the core of the "Marshall Plan" (for U.S. Secretary of Labor Ray Marshall) are described as offsite training for unemployed apprentices and allied craftworkers; reimbursed employment and training cost grants; apprenticeship-school projects; and apprenticeship innovations. Some statistical data on the number of…

This section of the Proceedings of the 20th Annual Winter Meeting of the Industrial Relations Research Association consists of three papers on aspects of manpower education. A Boston study on training of tool and die makers sought to ascertain which of several identifiable training paths was most productive in terms of worker performance. It found…

THIS PAPER SKETCHES RECENT TRENDS AND PROBLEMS THAT HAVE EMERGED IN PUBLIC TRAINING EFFORTS IN THE UNITED STATES DURING THE 1960S. IT CITES SHIFTS IN EMPHASIS FROM TRAINING WORKERS FOR EXISTING JOBS TO REFOCUSING ON YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT AND TO PREPARING THE HARD-CORE UNEMPLOYED FOR WORK, AND FROM CONCERN WITH JOB TRAINING TO JOB CREATION. IT POINTS…

This book deals with the question of identifying the optimal mix between public and private programs and provides some guides concerning the appropriate role of government in the manpower area. There is a need for public manpower programs which give some long range direction to manpower policies and which give continuing emphasis to the…

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…

Stressing the problems of American inner cities, this volume reviews major manpower problems in their urban setting, various Federal training and educational approaches to maximizing the use of manpower, and the directions that these programs may take during the 1970s. Chapter 1 reviews the general economic conditions of American cities.…

This thesis attempts to deal with difficult methodological problems of program evaluation; the particular programs considered are two types of manpower training programs: institutional or "classroom" training and government-subsidized on the job training. Characteristics of cost-benefit analysis are investigated and the method is…