"70001 Ltd." is a national nonprofit organization which offers unemployed dropouts a way to complete high school without returning to the public school classroom and also to get employment in retail sales occupations. Its centers, frequently located in shopping centers, provide a business rather than a school environment. (MF)

Describes the job training programs at the Hampden District Regional Skills Center, Springfield, Massachusetts, financed under the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act of 1973. The center trains 650 persons at a time and places more than 800 trainees a year in jobs through involving industry in the planning and training. (MF)

Part of the former Boston (Massachusetts) Navy Yard is now a job training center where Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) participants are trained as welders, pipefitters, electronics technicans, mechanics, and other marine workers. About half the program graduates use their transferable job skills in other industries. (MF)

Describes how Oklahoma women are training for and successfully working at nontraditional jobs (such as machine shop, carpentry, and auto mechanics) as a result of training funded by the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA), and the changing attitudes of employers toward women in nontraditional jobs. (MF)