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Download full textWiegardt, Liz; Weinstock, Phyllis – 1994
In the face of steadily declining numbers of small-operation farmers and ranchers, the Economic Dislocation and Worker Adjustment Assistance Act's Farmers and Ranchers Demonstration Project funded projects in four states to develop strategies for serving farmers. The experiences of these four projects in Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota, and South…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Demonstration Programs, Dislocated Workers, Employment Programs
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1986
This report presents the findings and recommendations of the Committee on Education and Labor, to which was referred the bill, H.R. 4728, to establish programs of education and training designed to improve the competitiveness of American workers in international trade. An explanation of the bill first provides committee feelings regarding Title I,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Education, Competition, Dislocated Workers
Getzel, Elizabeth Evans; Tindall, Lloyd W. – 1983
The Job Training Partnership Act requires that private and public sectors work together to create a service delivery system that meets the needs of disadvantaged youth and the needs of a state's work force in its business and industry. This manual, based on a Wisconsin Youth Initiative program at five pilot sites in that state, is intended to…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adult Education, Business Responsibility, Community Planning
Leigh, Duane E. – 1994
The federal government's experience with adult retraining programs began in 1962 with the passage of the Manpower Development and Training Act and creation of the Trade Adjustment Assistance program. When the 1973 Comprehensive Employment and Training Act expired in 1982, Congress enacted the Job Training Partnership Act. During the 1980s, states…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Demonstration Programs, Dislocated Workers
Barnow, Burt S., Ed.; King, Christopher T., Ed. – 2000
This book, which is intended for policymakers, administrators, and researchers, contains 13 research papers and reviews of the literature on increasing the effectiveness of publicly funded training. The following papers are included: "Publicly Funded Training in a Changing Labor Market" (Burt S. Barnow, Christopher T. King); "The…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Cost Effectiveness, Disadvantaged, Dislocated Workers
