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Download full textKemple, James J.; And Others – 1995
An evaluation addressed whether Project Independence, Florida's Job Opportunities and Basic Skills Program, had reduced welfare costs and increased the employment, earnings, and income of welfare recipients. It examined the experiences of more than 18,000 Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) applicants and recipients from 9 randomly…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Cost Effectiveness, Employment Services, Federal Legislation
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Finance. – 1991
This report describes a congressional hearing on implementation of the Job Opportunities and Basic Skills (JOBS) Training Program enacted by the Family Support Act of 1988. Focus is on the progress being made. Testimony includes statements and prepared statements from U.S. senators, and individuals representing the Administration for Children and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Employment Services, Federal Legislation, Hearings
Kemple, James J.; Haimson, Joshua – 1994
In 1987, Florida anticipated the federal Job Opportunities and Basic Skills Program with Project Independence, a statewide welfare-to-work program. It was structured to increase employment among Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) recipients as quickly as possible, primarily through job search activities. An evaluation was begun in 9…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Employment Services, Federal Legislation, Job Placement
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Veterans' Affairs. – 1991
This document records oral and written testimony from witnesses at a congressional hearing on the implementation of the Transition Assistance Program, designed to help veterans make the transition to civilian life. Witnesses included the assistant secretary of labor for veterans' affairs, assistant secretaries of various branches of the armed…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Employment Services, Federal Legislation, Federal Programs
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Human Resources. – 1977
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…
Descriptors: Career Change, Counseling Services, Displaced Homemakers, Employment Problems
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1977
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…
Descriptors: Economic Factors, Employment Problems, Employment Programs, Employment Services
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1976
Topic headings in the bill are declaration of policy and purpose, program authorization, contract provisions, special conditions, definitions, and authorization of appropriations. (WL)
Descriptors: Community Organizations, Educational Legislation, Educational Programs, Employment Opportunities
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources. – 1992
This congressional hearing focuses on the Endangered Species Employment Transition Assistance Act of 1992, which would amend the Job Training Partnership Act to provide job training and supportive services to workers dislocated as a result of enforcement of the Endangered Species Act. Testimony includes statements, articles, publications,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Change, Dislocated Workers, Employment Services
Arkansas Univ., Hot Springs. Arkansas Research & Training Center in Vocational Rehabilitation. – 1993
This document focuses on employer/employment services in vocational rehabilitation (VR) programs. Vocational rehabilitation is undergoing transformation in employment services to respond to redefined priorities, diverse populations, changing labor markets, state-of-the-art technologies, legislative mandates, and economic factors. Changes in…
Descriptors: Adults, Change Strategies, Compliance (Legal), Delivery Systems
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Select Committee on Indian Affairs. – 1991
This report, submitted by Senator Inouye to the Select Committee on Indian Affairs, summarizes the background and major provisions of Senate Bill 1530, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior, in collaboration with the Secretaries of Education, Health and Human Services, and Labor, to approve tribal plans for the integration, at the tribal…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Vocational Education, Alaska Natives, American Indians
Savner, Steve; Greenberg, Mark – 1997
Under Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), states face steadily increasing work participation requirements. The TANF structure presents one new option: the ability to use TANF funds for community service employment in wage-paying, publicly funded jobs designed to provide work for individuals and to address unmet community needs. A…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adults, Community Services, Economically Disadvantaged
Maloy, Kathleen A. – 2002
The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA) replaced Aid to Families with Dependent Children with Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF), which establishes work-focused, time-limited welfare benefits. TANF permits tribes to receive funds directly from the federal government to administer their own…
Descriptors: American Indians, Economic Development, Employment Services, Federal Indian Relationship
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and the Workforce. – 2002
This is a congressional hearing on how vocational and technical education and job training work together to better prepare workers for the 21st century workforce and on successful educational and job training activities and initiatives in Indiana (IN). Testimony includes statements from United States representatives (Howard P. "Buck"…
Descriptors: Employment Services, Federal Legislation, Futures (of Society), Hearings
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources. – 1987
This congressional report on Senate Bill 538 contains the testimony that was given at joint hearings to debate the passage of the Economic Dislocation and Worker Adjustment Assistance Act. This act, which is based primarily on the recommendations of U.S. Secretary of Labor Brock's blue ribbon task force: (1) creates displaced worker units at the…
Descriptors: Coordination, Dislocated Workers, Dismissal (Personnel), Educational Legislation
Bloom, Dan; Andes, Mary; Nicholson, Claudia – 1998
This report describes the first 2 years of Connecticut's Jobs First program operation. Chapter 1 describes the following: the policy context; the program's three main features--time limit, earned income disregard, and mandatory "work first" employment services; the evaluation and implementation analysis; and the research sites and target…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Economically Disadvantaged, Employment Services, Federal Legislation
