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Levitan, Sar A.; And Others – Workforce, 1993
Reviews education and training aspects of Clinton proposals and recommends funding of prenatal care, Head Start, and Women, Infants, and Children (WIC); parenting training for WIC, Head Start, and welfare recipient parents; revival of career education; expansion of cooperative education and tech prep; assessment of national standards and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Education Work Relationship, Educational Change, Federal Programs
Levitan, Sar A. – 1967
This review of the Job Corps, the Neighborhood Youth Corps, and the Work Experience and Training Programs, all established under the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964, was part of National Manpower Policy Task Force report requested by the Senate Subcommittee on Employment, Manpower, and Poverty. It was believed appropriate to examine, after nearly…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Adults, Disadvantaged Youth, Economically Disadvantaged

Levitan, Sar A. – Monthly Labor Review, 1975
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Innovation, Educational Programs, Federal Programs
Levitan, Sar A.; Schillmoeller, Susan – 1991
Homelessness is a growing problem in the midst of relative prosperity. However, as the problem persists, the public may be becoming increasingly less compassionate to the homeless and annoyed by the problem. Although it is difficult to determine how many people are homeless, the most widely circulated estimate puts their number at about 600,000.…
Descriptors: Adults, Costs, Federal Aid, Homeless People
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
Levitan, Sar A.; Gallo, Frank – 1993
The Job Opportunities and Basic Skills (JOBS) program, a component of the 1988 Family Support Act, emphasizes education and occupational training for welfare recipients, but it has not provided sufficient corrective measures to promote work among recipients of Aid for Families with Dependent Children (AFDC). The most serious deficiency of JOBS is…
Descriptors: Adults, Employment Programs, Federal Legislation, Federal Programs
Levitan, Sar A.; Gallo, Frank – 1991
This paper explores the role of public jobs programs in the U.S. economy from the 1930s to the present. It postulates that jobs programs are necessary because they serve four separate but overlapping needs: alleviating joblessness, hardship, and poverty; helping the economy emerge from recession; providing jobs to able-bodied welfare recipients;…
Descriptors: Adults, Cost Effectiveness, Disadvantaged Youth, Economic Development
Levitan, Sar A.; Miller, Elizabeth I. – 1993
This paper analyzes and evaluates federal assistance to Indians on or near reservations and recommends public policies to promote self-determination through economic development. Most Indian tribes rely on federal funds for basic necessities and services. At current funding levels, reservation residents lead lives of deprivation or opt for…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, American Indian Reservations, Economic Development, Elementary Secondary Education
Levitan, Sar A.; Mangum, Garth L. – 1969
At a time when many manpower programs have been charged with gimmickry and refunded without adequate assessment of impact and techniques, this volume attempts to develop a broad base of factual and analytical knowledge by which some judgement can be made of the gaps in manpower programs and policies as well as needed inputs. Part 1 traces…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Coordination, Educational Needs, Employment Services
Levitan, Sar A.; And Others – 1992
National concern about U.S. competitiveness in the world market has focused attention on the need to improve the work force. The two major 1992 presidential candidates have included training programs as important planks in their campaigns. President Bush has issued two proposals. Initially, he has charged in the Job Training 2000 proposal that the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Education, Dislocated Workers, Economically Disadvantaged
Levitan, Sar A.; Gallo, Frank – 1988
The Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) was heralded as a major overhaul of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) program. Five years after passage of JTPA, the answer to the question of whether it has indeed managed to remedy CETA's shortcomings appears to be an unequivocal maybe. Although the JTPA has been praised by numerous…
Descriptors: Adult Programs, Change Strategies, Comparative Analysis, Disadvantaged
Levitan, Sar A.; Miller, Elizabeth I. – 1992
In the 1980s and the early 1990s Congress failed to approve enterprise zone legislation which sought to help revitalize areas of high unemployment, poverty, and crime and low educational achievement by reducing taxes, relieving regulation, and eliminating other barriers to development. Establishment of comprehensive and sustained enterprise zone…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Environment, Economic Development, Entrepreneurship, Federal Aid
Levitan, Sar A.; Mangum, Garth L. – 1994
The antipoverty initiatives of the Kennedy and Johnson administrations were essentially continued and given increased funding during the Nixon, Ford, and Carter administrations. The Reagan and Bush administrations marked the regression of many employment, training, and welfare programs. Employment and training issues were given high priority…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Dislocated Workers, Economically Disadvantaged, Education Work Relationship