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Pines, Steven G. – 1987
This report highlights the key benefits and opportunities that may flow to local elected officials (LEOs) from implementing a successful Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) partnership. Chapter 1 is an introduction. Chapter 2 explains the specific benefits and opportunities that accrue to LEOs and their communities: (1) reduction of unemployment…
Descriptors: City Officials, Cooperative Programs, County Officials, Employment Programs
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. – 1983
The U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) compared the former Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) Private Sector Initiative Program (PSIP) with the traditional Comprehensive Services Program (Title IIB) in terms of participants, services, and outcomes in order to provide baseline data for the supervision of the Job Training Partnership…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Disadvantaged Youth, Employment Programs, Federal Programs
Hagner, David; Como, Perry – 1982
This resource manual is intended for use by vocational rehabilitation professionals and students interested in learning more about Work Stations in Industry (WSI). Chapter 1 discusses sheltered employment without the traditional sheltered workshop. This type of program is accomplished by establishing training and employment stations within…
Descriptors: Business, Career Education, Disabilities, Employment Programs
Cook, Robert F.; And Others – 1984
A study investigated how 22 Service Delivery Areas (SDAs) were implementing the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA). In 19 SDAs the same organization was the grant recipient and administrative entity. A number of arrangements existed between the Private Industry Councils (PICs) and the SDAs. The most common pattern was for the PIC to play an…
Descriptors: Dislocated Workers, Economically Disadvantaged, Employment Programs, Federal Legislation
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1987
This congressional report contains testimony pertaining to extending child care services to the Job Corps Program within the Job Training Partnership Act. The report includes testimony given by representatives of the following agencies and organizations: Management Training Corporation; the Los Angeles Job Corps Center; the Parent and Child…
Descriptors: Day Care, Educational Legislation, Employed Parents, Employment Problems
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Pennsylvania State Dept. of Education, Harrisburg. Bureau of Vocational and Adult Education. – 1985
This handbook presents the policies and procedures of the performance evaluation system for the State Education Grant (SEG). (The SEG is that 8 percent of Title II-A of the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) designated for administration by the state education agency.) Chapter I contains the general requirements of the SEG performance evaluation…
Descriptors: Employment Programs, Evaluation Methods, Federal Programs, Job Training
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1986
This report of a hearing before the House Subcommittee on Employment concerns the implementation of the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA). Witnesses addressed concerns about the program's allegedly unspent funds and the proposed funding cuts. Testimony was heard from William E. Brock, Secretary of Labor, and Raymond Flynn, Mayor of Boston,…
Descriptors: Employment Programs, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Federal Programs, Federal State Relationship
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris (France). – 1985
A comprehensive review was undertaken of the serious problem of youth unemployment in the countries of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) (most of the countries of Europe and the United States), and the means for dealing with it in the longer term. The study found that youth unemployment has been a major concern since…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Disadvantaged Youth, Economic Development, Employment Problems
Holloway, Wilfred B. – 1980
Through a study, strategies were investigated to increase the role of in-school youth in creating job opportunities. Drawing upon qualitative data provided by the Youthwork National Policy Study, researchers examined four youth-operated employment projects in order to isolate those factors that either hinder or facilitate the implementation of a…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Disadvantaged Youth, Employment Opportunities, Employment Programs
National Clearinghouse on Transition from School Newsletter, 1983
The two papers in this newsletter focus on youth employment and training programs in the United States and the government response to unemployment in Australia. In the first paper, "Looking at Other Countries, No. 1: United States. Youth Employment and Training Programs during the First Two Years of the Reagan Administration" by Ralph E.…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Employment Programs, Federal Programs, Foreign Countries
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Select Committee on Indian Affairs. – 1982
Fiscal year 1983 budgets of Indian programs in the Departments of Housing and Urban Development, Education, and Health and Human Services were discussed in the hearing before the Senate Select Committee on Indian Affairs. This hearing, the second in 2 days of hearings, contains testimony from the Office of Indian Education within the Department of…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, American Indians, Budgets, Employment Programs
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Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. – 1977
This U.S. House of Representatives bill (H.R. 2231), to be cited, if enacted, as the Comprehensive Veterans Readjustment Assistance Act of 1977, would amend title 38, United States Code, to provide counseling for certain veterans; to permit acceleration of monthly educational assistance payments to eligible veterans and dependents; to revise the…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Educational Legislation, Employment Programs, Federal Legislation
Administration on Aging (DHEW), Washington, DC. – 1976
This publication contains the amended text of the Older Americans Act of 1965. The purpose of the act is to provide assistance in the development of new or improved programs to help older persons through grants to the states for community planning and services and for training, through research, development, or training project grants and to…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Employment Programs, Federal Aid, Federal Legislation
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Ashenfelter, Orley – Integrated Education, 1975
This testimony, before a public hearing of the New York City Commission on Human Rights in May 1974, focuses on two issues: (1) the effect of the presence of trade unionism on the position of black workers in the labor market relative to white workers; and (2) the effect of federal government efforts to increase the position of black workers…
Descriptors: Black Employment, Employment Patterns, Employment Practices, Employment Problems
Wilken, William H.; Brown, Lawrence L., III – 1981
Federal funds for youth employment programs have increased for two decades, yet program effectiveness could improve if greater coordination between job training agencies and educational institutions were achieved. Initial coordination efforts gave educational agencies a major role in governing and operating the vocational education services needed…
Descriptors: Coordination, Educational Cooperation, Employment Programs, Federal Legislation
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