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Download full textCongress of the U. S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Government Operations. – 1992
This document reports on a congressional hearing on race and sex discrimination in the operation of the Job Training Partnership Act. It examines findings of a General Accounting Office investigation that revealed that women received disparate treatment in job training services in nearly two-thirds of the localities surveyed and that black males…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Blacks, Employment Programs, Equal Opportunities (Jobs)
Crawford, Clarence C. – 1993
This report records the testimony presented by Clarence C. Crawford, Associate Director, Education and Employment Issues, Human Resources, of the General Accounting Office, on the effectiveness of Title IIA of the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) in meeting the employment and training needs of economically disadvantaged adults and youth. His…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Cooperative Programs, Coordination, Economically Disadvantaged
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Health, Education, and Human Services Div. – 1998
The General Accounting Office (GAO) reviewed the labor market links and vocational training performance of the Job Corps, which is an employment and training program aimed at providing severely disadvantaged youth with a comprehensive array of services in residential settings. Data were collected from the following: interviews with Job Corps…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Education Work Relationship, Employment Programs, Federal Programs
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Div. of Human Resources. – 1992
A review was conducted of two issues related to the participation rate requirements of the Job Opportunities and Basic Skills (JOBS) component of the Family Support Act of 1988: (1) the extent to which states have served those most at risk of long-term welfare dependency--the least job-ready--relative to other Aid for Families with Dependent…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Compliance (Legal), Disadvantaged, Eligibility
Morra, Linda G. – 1994
At least 154 programs administered by 14 federal departments and agencies provide about $25 billion in employment training assistance. Faced with stiff global competition, corporate restructuring, and continuing federal budget constraints, the federal government can no longer afford to invest in a system that may waste resources and may not help…
Descriptors: Administrative Change, Agency Cooperation, Cooperative Programs, Coordination
Levitan, Sar A.; Mangum, Stephen L. – 1994
The current displaced worker initiative towers over the 30-year effort to bring the economically disadvantaged into the mainstream of the labor market. The Congressional Budget Office defines displacement as all workers 18 years of age and older who lose full-time employment due to slack work, job abolition, or plant closure. Major displaced…
Descriptors: Dislocated Workers, Economically Disadvantaged, Employment Programs, Federal Aid
Innovative Consultants, Inc., Cincinnati, OH. – 1990
A study was conducted to provide much-needed, in-depth qualitative information and direction regarding the experiences, attitudes, value systems, and aspirations of various segments of the Aid to Dependent Children (ADC) recipients. Eight focus groups, each composed of 8 to 10 persons, were conducted in May 1990 in Cincinnati, Ohio. Discussion…
Descriptors: Adults, Aspiration, Attitudes, Economically Disadvantaged
Project READ, Dayton, OH. – 1990
Project READ (Reading Education for Adults in Dayton) sought to enhance the literacy of Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA)-eligible adults in the Miami Valley through improved coordination efforts. The major task of the activity to coordinate promotion of literacy resources was to create new awareness and linkages between the Human Services…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Agency Cooperation, Cooperative Programs, Coordination
Georgia State Dept. of Labor, Atlanta. – 1991
A study in Georgia evaluated the pre-program to post-program changes in employment, earnings, and welfare dependency for the 6,693 Title II-A adults that occurred between application and participant follow-up 13 weeks after leaving the state's Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) program during the 1989-90 program year. Findings revealed…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Employment Programs, Federal Programs, Job Training
MARK Private Industry Council, Mansfield, OH. – 1991
The Richland County (Ohio) Welfare Coordination Project had three main goals: (1) to examine the roles, functions, and allowable service activities of each of four agencies involved in adult education, training, and job placement efforts; (2) to develop a systematic approach to the selection of service providers for clients; and (3) to develop…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adults, Agency Cooperation
Colombo, Louis; Cantwell, Glo – 1981
The Albuquerque Office of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Administration (OCETA) contracted with the Albuquerque Urban Observatory to conduct a study of employability skills needed by OCETA participants, to identify training programs that might be available to teach these skills, and to suggest a new model for OCETA job preparation…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adult Education, Adults, Educational Needs
Wagner, David L. – 1984
Designed to serve as a framework from which high school debate students, coaches, and judges can evaluate the issues, arguments, and evidence present in sustaining and reforming the United States welfare system, this booklet provides guidelines for research on the 1984-85 debate resolutions selected by the National Federation of State High School…
Descriptors: Debate, Employment Programs, Federal Programs, High Schools
Hummel, Thomas J.; Robinson, Judith A. – 1983
The development of a program for the training of Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) counselors in Minnesota was the occasion for an exercise in "knowledge engineering." A "situation book" approach was designed to help structure and organize the specialized knowledge accumulated by experienced counselors and to…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Counseling Techniques, Counselor Training, Employment Counselors
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1990
This document reports oral and written testimony given at hearings by witnesses concerning House Bill (H.B.) 2039, the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) Amendments of 1989, and related proposals. The proposed legislation is designed to correct shortcomings in JTPA and to redirect focus to the hard to serve; and provide more intensive services…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Economically Disadvantaged, Employment Programs, Federal Legislation
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. – 1987
The General Accounting Office (GAO) surveyed all Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) Title III dislocated worker projects operating between October 1982 and March 1985 to obtain program information concerning (1) results achieved, such as placement rates and average wage levels; (2) assistance provided to participants, including skill training,…
Descriptors: Adults, Compliance (Legal), Dislocated Workers, Employment Programs
