The Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA), less than one year old, represents a promising start and demonstrates that Federal, State, and local governments can work together to help people with serious employment problems compete more effectively for jobs. (Author/MW)

Summarizes the Minority Manpower Resources Project conducted through the joint efforts of the NASA - Manned Spacecraft Center and Texas Southern University. Indicates that the main reason for the project's success is the identification, careful screening of high quality ethnic minority students. (CC)

Criticizes recent Ph.D. programs carried out in many universities after World War II. Suggests university departments re-institute high quality two-year master's programs designed to train those who plan to make careers in chemistry at an applied level. (CC)

This report summarizes the proceedings of a conference on manpower research that assembled a heterogeneous group of data gatherers, analysts, and policymakers to assess data and information needs, the usage of information by researchers, the policy implications of ongoing research, and the processes by which academic findings impact on policy. The…

This second annual report of the National Commission for Manpower Policy focuses on an employment strategy to attain the goal of full employment. In Section I the Commission's recommendations from the text are summarized into twenty steps to establish an employment strategy. Section II provides background information on the definition of…

This document presents the material developed in conjunction with a project directed to test a methodology that a state water pollution control agency can use in determining its manpower and training needs. Included is a compilation of the manpower planning criteria used to relate numbers and types of personnel with deferred workloads. It also…

This report presents the implementation results of a pilot test of a manpower planning methodology developed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Office of Water Programs. Project outputs and projections are described and illustrated in sections of the report dealing with work to be done, organizational staffing plan, transfers and…

The article discusses several job development projects for ex-addicts where professional staffs offer employment assistance. With Federal, business, and labor sponsorship, several pilot projects attempt to help former addicts gain access to jobs, training programs, and vocational rehabilitation services. (Author/JB)

The purpose of the article is to communicate to older persons and representatives of their service organizations some basic information about the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) and how manpower bock grants can benefit unemployed or underemployed persons classified as middle-aged and older workers (those over age 44). (Author/EA)

The author compares the differing approaches of Germany, Sweden, France, and Australia for providing financial support to adults enrolled in vocational training programs, focusing on training allowances for recurrent education. He concludes that without some governmental maintenance program, it is unlikely that adults can utilize even tuition-free…

The low-cost day care center described is industry-sponsored, not for the company's employees, but as a community service enabling welfare mothers to work while their children enjoy a development-enhancing curriculum provided by trained teachers, once welfare recipients. Executives believe business must help the disadvantaged solve their problems.…

Advances and employment outlook in the field of computer science are discussed as well as the problems related to improving the quality of computer education. Specific computer jobs discussed include: data processing machine repairers, systems analysts, programmers, computer and peripheral equipment operators, and keypunch operators. (EA)

The primary objective of the study was to develop an analytical technique capable of measuring the impact of Federal expenditures by measuring the employment requirements created by expenditures for pollution control, and secondly to examine the transferability of scientific and technical skills from the aerospace industry to the pollution control…