An unemployed poet obtained a CETA public service job as a teacher's aide in Marin County, California, where he has guided elementary children's imaginative projects. His experiences are described. He has published a volume of the children's verse under the title "Love Is Like a Squished Banana." (AJ)

The development and operation of a successful employee selection, promotion, and transfer program is described. The 3-year program involved posting public notices of all library vacancies, actual or anticipated, and encouraging individuals, whether on the staff or not, to apply for positions in which they were interested. (JT)

Presents characteristics of adult CETA (Comprehensive Employment and Training Act) students and offers suggestions to the CETA communications teacher which the author feels will help establish a successful instructional setting. (SH)

Beginning in 1967 the U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Apprenticeship and Training required that apprenticeship program operators indicate the race or national origin and sex of all persons hired as apprentices in registered programs. Through June 1976 the number of minority group apprentices almost tripled with a much lower first-year dropout…

Deals with some of the problems (and reasons for the problems) which school-leavers and young workers encounter in their search for jobs or training places. Measures taken or envisaged in a number of countries to alleviate the problems are also reviewed. (SH)

Describes President Carter's proposed system to give welfare and other low-income families a chance to earn their way out of poverty. Focus is on the Jobs for Families component which combines the Aid to Families with Dependent Children; Supplemental Security Income for the aged, blind, and disabled; and Food Stamps in a single cash assistance…

The availability of trainees, service providers, private employers, and low effective costs attest to the success of the Massachusetts Supported Work model, a state-funded transitional employment program for mentally retarded persons, featuring graduated stress and performance requirements, intensive supervision, supportive services, easy…

Seven studies commissioned by the U.S. Department of Labor measuring the net market impacts of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act are reviewed. Their purpose was to generate informed debate on the efficacy of quasi-experimental designs and structural economic models to evaluate federally subsidized employment and training programs. (BS)

Explains the role of the California Employment Training Panel in ensuring that public monies are well spent by guaranteeing that training leads directly to employment. Emphasizes the importance of job training as a tool for economic development. (AYC)

Explains the Women in Technology (WIT) program, which aims to help women engineers not currently in paid employment to prepare for a return to technological work. Provides evidence that the project is fulfilling its objectives at a modest cost. (ML)

This article assesses the usefulness of short-term program performance data in judging the relative effectiveness of Supported Work and in targeting program resources to those most likely to benefit from them. The results reveal evidence of significant negative impacts for youth who left the program for negative reasons. (Author/CT)

Reviews the literature on employment of ex-offenders and proposes a model for understanding and predicting the effectiveness of ex-offender employment programs. Suggests that prisonization and self-esteem are especially important for understanding post-release adjustment. (JAC)

The U.S. Department of Labor's One-Stop Career Center initiative is part of the movement of governments to increase the quality and efficiency of their services. One-stop centers bring together public and private resources to meet individuals' and employers' human resource development and labor market needs. In order to meet employers' needs,…

This paper highlights the public and private health insurance options for young people with disabilities or chronic health conditions including several recent Federal initiatives to increase access to health care for working adults with disabilities. Discussion of public health insurance eligibility and coverage focuses on aspects of Medicaid and…

Reviews the major enactments of federal income transfer programs, Federal payments programs presently in force, Federal manpower training programs, and recent developments in Congress. Presents a pro and con discussion by several Senators and Representatives on the Adminsistration's current plan to terminate the Federal anti-poverty agency.…