Following a series of continuing resolutions, the omnibus fiscal year 1996 appropriations bill restored federal education funding to 1995 levels or made smaller cuts than specified in the continuing resolutions. However, most job training and employment programs were cut significantly. Examines effects on rural education for Title I, impact aid,…

Describes the operations of Southern California Indian Centers, Inc., a nonprofit provider of social services and job training to American Indians in Los Angeles and Orange Counties. Discusses funding sources in an era of federal cuts and retrenchment, agency structure and administrative practices, staffing, volunteerism and the dedication factor,…

This book examines the causes of worker displacement in the United States in the context of national economic change. It discusses the promising, through scattered, efforts already underway to help dislocated workers and outlines more far-reaching steps that can be taken with assistance of the federal Job Training Partnership Act of 1982. The book…