This report of the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs contains amendments to the Veterans' Job Training Act (VJTA). The amendments are followed by a history of the bill to extend and authorize additional funding for the VJTA. This history includes background of the bill, a summary of the bill (H.R. 1504), a discussion of the bill (including…

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…

The author supplies a detailed explanation of six youth employment and training bills before Congress in 1977, discusses their implications for vocational-technical educators, and states the challenge. (Editor/HD)

This document contains proceedings of a congressional hearing to review the employment programs for veterans administered by the Department of Labor. Its purpose is also to discuss structural and procedural changes being contemplated by that Department that could affect the delivery of services to veterans and perhaps jeopardize veterans' priority…

This document records the oral and written testimony of persons participating in a U.S. House of Representatives hearing on employment and training needs during the current recession. Testimony was given by leaders of youth education and jobs programs, congressional representatives, a college president, and several unemployed workers. Witnesses…

The article contains examples of company-sponsored programs to successfully train and hire handicapped persons. Affirmative action and other regulations have necessitated consideration of other alleviating measures (removal of architectural, mechanical, and mental barriers; human engineering; decentralization; modified schedules; and research)…

This hearing before the Joint Economic Committee contains statements from Members of Congress and others concerning the high youth unemployment rates and the youth transition to work. Possible ways of improvement are discussed, such as a national voluntary youth service, a civilian conservation corps, and a range of youth service training…

This report summarizes a hearing to examine the factors contributing to pressures on United States workers and to suggest government, industry, and labor policies. Section I is an introduction. Section II identifies the panelists: Director, Conservation of Human Resources, Columbia University; President, United Steel Workers of America; Senior…

This congressional hearing evaluates at the grassroots level the administration and effectiveness of laws enacted by Congress to assist veterans in obtaining job training and employment. Particular emphasis is placed on the implementation of the Emergency Veterans' Job Training Act of 1983, Public Law 98-77. Testimony includes statements from a…

These hearings on Senate bill 418 (Displaced Homemakers Act, 1977) explore the problems or barriers confronting women (primarily middle-aged) who are seeking to reenter the labor force or enter it for the first time and ways that existing or new Federal programs can more adequately serve the needs of these women. The first of several witnesses…

This first interim report of the National Commission for Manpower Policy on the manpower challenges of 1975 was developed to (1) assess the extent to which federal manpower and manpower-related programs provide a structure capable of responding to the current unemployment problems and (2) consider some of the long-run critical manpower issues that…

These hearings focus on various measures submitted by President Carter and Congress to reduce unemployment, including an extension of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA), the Full Employment and Balanced Growth Act of 1977, and the President's economic stimulus proposals. Some of the primary testimony presented regarding the need…

Reported here is the oversight hearing on the Youth Employment and Demonstrations Projects Act to examine the problem of youth unemployment and the extent to which existing federal programs are addressing the problem. Major content is the testimony of four witnesses: Leon Anderson, Division of Human Resources, U.S. Forest Service, Department of…

This study describes and assesses the early years of implementation of Title II-A of the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) in regard to its services to women. Title II of JTPA is the major Federal program intervention--funded at about 1.8 billion dollars annually--aimed at providing employment and training services for the economically…

Prepared as a basic background document for an interagency task force on youth employment, this report analyzes youth employment policies and programs for the 1980s. The main body of the report consists of three sections. Section 1, entitled "Policy Perspectives on the Youth Employment Problem," contains a discussion of pathways to…