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Jobs for the Future, 2021
In today's volatile economy, we can no longer afford to underinvest in America's opportunity youth. The costs of ignoring these young people, who are disconnected from education and out of work, are too high and growing. Building skills and gaining work experience are key to young people's upward mobility, but the pandemic has all but shut off…
Descriptors: Public Policy, Pandemics, COVID-19, Low Income Groups
Waight, Consuelo Luisa – International Journal of Training and Development, 2020
Researchers have established the role of tertiary education (TE) in economic development (ED). Globally, TE generates significant and multiple direct, indirect and catalytic economic impacts, which result in well-established benefits pertaining to both individuals and broader economies. Last year, the government of Belize published its first…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Economic Development, Labor Market
Carlson, Cameron D. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was created in the wake of the September 11th 2001 terrorist events. DHS's formation, the largest reorganization of a governmental agency in over 50 years, brought a new emphasis on the protection of the nation, its citizens and its infrastructure to government emergency management policy. Previously,…
Descriptors: National Security, Educational Needs, Labor Force Development, Terrorism
Boothby, Neil; Balster, Robert L.; Goldman, Philip; Wessells, Michael G.; Zeanah, Charles H.; Huebner, Gillian; Garbarino, James – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 2012
The 2011 U.S. Government Evidence Summit on Protecting Children Outside of Family Care brought together leading researchers and technical experts to assess the available evidence to inform policies, strategies, and programs relevant to protecting children outside of family care in lower and middle income countries. While child vulnerabilities are…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Evidence, Communities of Practice, Expertise
McNeill, Mary Elizabeth; Chiang, Lifang; Raymond, Dennis J. – 2000
The formation of local workforce investment boards (WIBs) was examined through case studies of two sites in Indiana and two in Kentucky. The four sites had very different labor market conditions, contexts, and One Stop histories that affected their formation of local WIBs and selection of One Stop operators. The boards surveyed ranged in size from…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Career Centers, Case Studies, Economic Climate
Bermant, M.; And Others – 1986
This study provides a tool for describing, analyzing, and evaluating the effectiveness of human resources development (HRD) systems and their components. It is intended for policy makers, planners, and senior officials from government, employers', and workers' organizations who have responsibilities in human resources development. The first part…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Education Work Relationship, Enrollment, Entry Workers
Seitchik, Adam; Zornitsky, Jeffrey – 1989
This four-chapter book explains how the structure of job opportunities in the United States has changed over the past 20 years as the economy has changed from goods production to service employment; it links such changes to the issues of displacement policy and worker mobility. It is intended to contribute to the formation of policies and programs…
Descriptors: Adults, Dislocated Workers, Economic Change, Employment Opportunities
Moser, Collette Helen – 1971
The possible application of area skill surveys to manpower planning is considered. Statistical data were derived from re-surveying employers who had projected in 1964 their employment for 1966 in about 200 occupations. Area skill surveys for Roanoke and Petersburg, Virginia were evaluated. Prediction losses from the area skill survey projections,…
Descriptors: Career Guidance, Employers, Employment Projections, Job Analysis
Group of Eight (NJ1), 2010
The demand for workers (employers, self-employed people and employees) having research training extends beyond the researcher workforce itself and is increasing. The research workforce is not uniform but segmented according to disciplines and the economic and sectoral contexts in which researchers work. The growth of cross-disciplinary and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Block Grants, Research, International Cooperation
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources. – 1994
This document contains testimony from two Senate hearings on the Reemployment and Training Act of 1994 by U.S. Secretary of Labor Robert B. Reich and other witnesses concerning the Act and the need for changes in the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act, which requires employers to notify employees of impending layoffs.…
Descriptors: Adults, Dislocated Workers, Employment Practices, Employment Programs
National Advisory Council on Nurse Education and Practice, Rockville, MD. – 1999
This document presents the findings of the National Advisory Council on Nurse Education and Practice regarding the role, education, and supply of clinical nurse specialists (CNSs). The first section of the report examines the following eight background issues: (1) early development of the CNS; (2) current CNS supply; (3) roles and impact of the…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Advisory Committees, Conventional Instruction, Curriculum
Roth, Dennis M. – 1978
This is a compilation of selected articles and a bibliography on the 1978-79 intercollegiate debate proposition: Resolved, that the Federal Government should implement a program which guarantees employment opportunities for all U.S. citizens in the labor force. The introduction briefly reviews the United States post-World War II history of…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Debate, Economic Factors, Employment
DaVanzo, Julie; Greenberg, David H. – 1974
This paper is concerned with research issues that must be faced in assessing the potential subnational effects of proposed income maintenance programs. The paper is divided into discussions of four major tasks that must be performed by policy analysts. The first is simply to list program provisions that may have important subnational effects,…
Descriptors: Economic Research, Family Income, Federal Programs, Finance Reform
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Subcommittee on Labor and Human Resources. – 1981
This congressional hearing contains testimony given in Montpelier, Vermont, at the first of a series of nationwide hearings on vocational education. Focus of this particular hearing is on the specific needs of Vermont as a rural northeastern state to train a workforce that is talented enough to help retrain existing businesses and industry and…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Educational Legislation, Educational Needs, Educational Objectives
National Manpower Policy Task Force, Washington, DC. – 1970
This booklet describes three legislative bills to reform existing federal manpower programs. The proposals share an emphasis on a single comprehensive manpower program for the disadvantaged, using state and local planning of flexible programs to meet local needs. A combination of the three proposals is recommended. (BH)
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Federal Legislation, Federal Programs, Labor Force Development