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It Ain't CETA.
Lauer, Jim – Wisconsin Vocational Educator, 1984
Suggests ways that the Job Training Partnership Act can serve as a local labor force development tool. Besides assisting "hardcore unemployed," education can take a proactive role, keeping up with the technology and needs of business and industry. In return, business and industry must support education with state-of-the-art machinery and…
Descriptors: Adult Programs, Labor Force Development, Reentry Workers, Retraining
Success of Public/Private Ventures in Employment and Training. Hearing before the Subcommittee on Employment Opportunities of the Committee on Education and Labor. House of Representatives, Ninety-Ninth Congress, Second Session.
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Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1986
This document contains the text of a congressional hearing focusing on successful private and public ventures in job training efforts. The purpose was to learn how to expand or extend programs in the private sector that provide job training to underskilled and undereducated workers in conjunction with the public sector. The bulk of the document…
Descriptors: Business, Cooperation, Cooperative Programs, Corporate Support
Dislocated Workers. Expenditures under Title III of the Job Training Partnership Act. Fact Sheet for the Chairman, Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives.
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General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Div. of Human Resources. – 1990
A study examined the state spending patterns for dislocated worker assistance under Title III of the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) and the Economic Dislocation and Worker Adjustment Assistance Act (EDWAA), as evidenced by Department of Labor (DOL) semiannual reports and other DOL data, for program years 1985-88. JTPA Title III provides funds…
Descriptors: Adults, Dislocated Workers, Dismissal (Personnel), Expenditures
Sharpening the Competitive Edge. Case Studies: Partnerships for Training and Retraining in a Changing Economy.
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National Alliance of Business, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1987
This collection of 16 case studies is intended to illustrate how the public and private sectors have managed to collaborate in helping workers adapt to changing employment circumstances. The case studies are grouped into three categories. The first six case studies are examples of programs that have been developed to assist in training for new…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Cooperative Planning, Cooperative Programs, Dislocated Workers
Report from the National Conference on Collaborative Approaches to Serving Adult Learners (Racine, Wisconsin, April 29-May 1, 1984).
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Caldwell, Melissa B. – 1984
This report summarizes a national invitational conference at which 36 representatives from business, industry, education, and government addressed the ways in which the issues of skill obsolescence, unemployment, illiteracy, displacement, and finance of career development affect adult learners, employers, and providers of education and training.…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Career Development, Cooperative Planning
Employment Action Center's Demonstration Older Worker Project. Operated June 1, 1983 through November 31, 1983. Final Outcome Report.
Henry, Ann; Teschendorf, JoAnn – 1984
The Older Worker Project was conducted to provide employment services to unemployed persons aged 45 and older who live in the western part of the Hennepin County (Minneapolis, Minnesota) area. Although the expected result was permanent employment of the participants, the intention of this demonstration project was to refine service approaches…
Descriptors: Age Discrimination, Attitude Change, Career Change, Career Counseling