Reactions of participants suggest that sensitivity training performs some popular function but that it does not necessarily change behavior, affect attitudes, or constitute formal learning. (Author)

The provisions of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act of 1973 are summarized. (SA)

Intensive remedial programs in six major cities upgraded the educational skills of military rejectees. A majority of the trainees qualified for military enlistment, other training projects, or jobs. (CH)

The addition of new residential manpower and support centers has made the Job Corps more flexible, by keeping trainees in their home areas and preparing them to work there. (BH)

A vocational retraining program for disadvantaged ghetto residents at the Sequential Computer Corporation. Trainees received on the job training, counseling, and jobs after they completed the program. (BC)

Messengers earn while they learn the life style of work. (Editor)

Growth of union participation in and sponsorship of manpower training programs, particularly in the last four years, with emphasis on preparation of minority and other disadvantaged youth. (MF)

Describes a skill and theory training program in technical occupations for disadvantaged workers at the Atomic Energy Commission Plant at Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Results were highly successful with large increases in yearly earnings reported by those trainees completing the program. (BC)

Describes union efforts to reinforce Federal manpower programs and to overcome fear and prejudice in local unions, in order to provide opportunities for the hard-core unemployed, especially in minority groups. (BH)

Wildcat Service Corporation is a highly successful employment service for ex-drug addicts and alcholics who have served prison terms, are on welfare, and have little work experience. Funded mainly by the Manpower Administration, Wildcats's 3,000 workers perform service operations for many of New York City's government departments and businesses.…

An example is cited of a disadvantaged worker helped by the Manpower Administration's Job Opportunities in the Business Sector (JOBS) program who has progressed from trainee as a grocery clerk to training instructor for a grocery chain and is now completing his college education with the grocery chain's help. (SA)

Manpower programs have not moved large groups of people up the occupational ladder but have placed the disadvantaged into entry level jobs and such government programs as the Manpower Development and Training Act have offered little on the job training. (BC)

U.S. Employment Service meshes manpower needs at local level. (Editor)

Labor unions provide job and training information to servicemen at separation centers and throughout the country. Through Project Transition, pre-apprenticeship training is given to servicemen who may be placed as apprentices after discharge. (MF)