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Direct linkBaird, Matthew D.; Engberg, John; Gonzalez, Gabriella C.; Goughnour, Thomas; Gutierrez, Italo A.; Karam, Rita T. – RAND Corporation, 2019
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…
Descriptors: Labor Force Development, Job Training, Job Skills, Program Effectiveness
Download full textHilliard, Thomas – Center for an Urban Future, 2011
Even before the Great Recession prompted policymakers to take a closer look at public programs designed to help unemployed Americans re-enter the workforce it had long been clear that federal, state and local government workforce development programs have not always effectively prepared low-income individuals to obtain decent-paying jobs. Job…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Job Training, Educational Change, Local Government
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. – 1970
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…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Employment Opportunities, Employment Programs, Federal Programs
Schrank, Robert; Stein, Susan – Training Develop J, 1969
Descriptors: Career Planning, Disadvantaged, Human Services, Inservice Education
Connor, Thomas R. – Canadian Vocational Journal, 1971
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Job Development, Job Placement, Job Training
Welker, L. Conrad, Jr.; Ginn, Clyde N. – 1974
The concern of educational and political leaders as to the extent and nature of impact made by Institutional Manpower Development and Training Act (MDTA) programs provided the basis for the study. The research report describes the degree of influence that the MDTA programs had on vocational and technical education in the State of Mississippi…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Labor Force Development, Program Evaluation, Questionnaires
System Development Corp., Falls Church, VA. – 1970
To identify and assess the impact of the Urban Concentrated Employment Program (CEP) on 14 selected cities, each community was divided into the three major areas of potential impact--the general community, employers, and participants in the program. Data were obtained from interviews and mailed questionnaires. Several operational factors limited…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Employment Programs, Job Training, Labor Force Development
Greenleigh Associates, Inc., New York, NY. – 1970
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…
Descriptors: Community Cooperation, Disadvantaged, Employer Attitudes, Employment Programs
Olympus Research Corp., Washington, DC. – 1971
Based on followup interviews with 1700 participants, this study is an evaluation of Federal manpower programs in Boston, Denver, and San Francisco-Oakland. Included are Manpower Development and Training Act Programs, Work Incentive Programs, and Concentrated Employment Program from late 1969 to early 1970. Program impact on enrollees, employers,…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Agency Cooperation, Coordination, Disadvantaged
National Academy of Sciences - National Research Council, Washington, DC. Div. of Behavioral Sciences. – 1974
The report provides an assessment of the six Experimental Manpower Laboratories set up by the Manpower Administration to engage in long-term research concerned with developing improved manpower service-delivery systems. An advisory committee under the auspices of the National Research Council was established to conduct the assessment. The six…
Descriptors: Administration, Correctional Rehabilitation, Disadvantaged, Industrial Training
National Urban Coalition, Washington, DC. – 1972
The National Urban Coalition conducted this evaluation to determine the manner in which the provisions of the Emergency Employment Act of 1971 have been carried out, the problems raised by legislative and administrative guidelines, and the difficulties experienced in implementing projects locally. Some major findings were: (1) The Labor Department…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Economically Disadvantaged, Employment Opportunities, Employment Programs
Levine, Louis; Norton, John Herbert – 1969
A lack of data continues to hinder efforts to cure the problems of poverty areas. This project was designed to determine possible means to gather the needed data, so that program planners could make decisions based on facts rather than intuition. Although this is a case study of an inner-city poverty area of Philadelphia, the need for data and the…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Collection, Data Processing, Disadvantaged
Urban Systems Research and Engineering, Inc., Cambridge, MA. – 1971
This report delineates and analyzes the impact of the rural Concentrated Employment Programs (CEP) operating in Arkansas, Maine, Minnesota, New Mexico, and Tennessee. First funded in fiscal year 1967, the CEP's were designed as an efficient and effective system for providing coordinated manpower services to the disadvantaged. At the end of 1967,…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Employment Programs, Job Training, Labor Force Development
Comptroller General of the U.S., Washington, DC. – 1972
This study was conducted to assess the results of institutional manpower training in South Carolina conducted under the Manpower Development and Training Act at two skills centers, at 10 state instructional centers, and at public and private facilities throughout the state. The study found that about 72 percent of 9,800 trainees graduated, and…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Disadvantaged, Federal Programs, Labor Force Development
Olympus Research Corp., Salt Lake City, UT. – 1971
Skills centers represent a fairly new and different component of national manpower policy. The 70 Manpower Development and Training Act (MDTA) Skills Centers are designed to provide comprehensive manpower services for the disadvantaged, including training, basic education, communication skills, counseling, placement, and follow-up. Based on visits…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Vocational Education, Career Counseling, Disadvantaged
