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Peer reviewedGreene, Joshua – Education and Urban Society, 1981
Current federal youth employment programs have failed to meet the employment needs of disadvantaged youth. Programs should be revised to: (1) require all participants to receive remedial academic instruction on the high school level; and (2) train participants in at least one vocational skill for which there exists a local demand for youth…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Employment Problems, Employment Programs, Federal Programs
Nathan, Robert R. – Worklife, 1977
Focuses on the unemployment problem among Vietnam veterans and on the various Federal and private employment programs open to these veterans. Discussion also covers labor force statistics, readjustment to civilian life, changes in the American economy, and the role of the Department of Defense and civilian employers in helping veterans to find…
Descriptors: Economic Climate, Employment Opportunities, Employment Patterns, Employment Problems
Higgins, James M. – Personnel Journal, 1975
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Business Responsibility, Employment Opportunities, Employment Problems
Download full textCongress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Veterans' Affairs. – 1986
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…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Employment Problems, Employment Programs, Employment Services
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1992
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…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Economic Development, Employment Problems
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on the Budget. – 1985
The proceedings of a House of Representatives joint task force on the relationship of Federal budget policy to unemployment are presented. The hearings include statements from a representative of the United States Catholic Conference, economists of the Urban Institute, the vice president of the Committee for Economic Development, and a…
Descriptors: Dislocated Workers, Education Work Relationship, Employment Problems, Federal Government
KRANTZ, LAVERN L. – 1966
ANALYSIS OF DATA FROM 146 SCHOOLS ACROSS THE COUNTRY SHOWS ACQUISITION OF QUALIFIED STAFF PERSONNEL TO BE A MAJOR DIFFICULTY IN OPERATING NEW SCHOOL PROGRAMS. THE EIGHT MOST DIFFICULT PROGRAMS TO STAFF WERE PRESCHOOL, REMEDIAL READING, ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LIBRARIANS, SOCIAL WORKERS, TEACHERS FOR EMOTIONALLY DISTURBED CHILDREN, PSYCHOLOGISTS, SPEECH…
Descriptors: Administrators, Employment Problems, Federal Programs, Geographic Location
Shapiro, Theresa R. – 1972
Although the study includes sections on the history and organization of the building trade unions in metropolitan New Orleans and on the operation of the Apprenticeship Outreach Program in the area, its main focus is on employment, earning, skill levels, and attitudes of white and black carpenters, union and nonunion, and with black roofers, union…
Descriptors: Background, Black Employment, Career Development, Construction Industry
Stevenson, Gloria – Worklife, 1977
Describes rural northwestern Minnesota's employment problem and the local employment and manpower programs, focusing on Rural Minnesota CEP (Concentrated Employment Program), the balance-of-state program, and the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) program. It is noted that the nature of the land and people and the distances to be…
Descriptors: Employment Potential, Employment Problems, Employment Programs, Federal Programs
Gueron, Judith M. – 1984
The Department of Labor's Youth Incentive Entitlement Pilot Projects (YIEPP) was the nation's largest demonstration to test a new approach to solving the employment problems of disadvantaged youths. Sixteen- to 19-year-olds from low income or welfare households who had not yet graduated from high school were offered minimum-wage jobs, part-time…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Dropout Programs, Economically Disadvantaged, Employment Opportunities
Walther, Regis H. – 1970
This is a report of research undertaken to investigate those characteristics of Negro male high school dropouts that might inhibit their participation in Federal Manpower Programs. Study groups, each composed of approximately 300 young men born before 1952, and who left school in 1966 and 1967 before graduating from high school, were constituted…
Descriptors: Blacks, Dropouts, Educational Background, Employment Problems
Werner, Gabriele A. – 1986
German primary vocational training is characterized by the Dual System, a system of alternating education with two major partners--business and special vocational education. It coordinates and integrates both theoretical and practical training. Students who complete compulsory education at age 15 may choose this vocational alternating training…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Continuing Education, Developed Nations, Employment Problems
Leonardson, Gene; Nelson, David M. – Worklife, 1977
This article, based on a research project covering rural employment and youth programs, examines success and failure of various federal public job programs, concluding that the programs generally have not provided rural workers with needed employable skills. (MF)
Descriptors: Employment Problems, Employment Programs, Federal Programs, Job Skills
National Commission for Manpower Policy, Washington, DC. – 1975
This report of the National Commission for Manpower Policy summarizes the findings and recommendations on Public Service Employment (PSE) along with considering other responses to continuing unemployment. This booklet's content is presented in two sections. Section 1 summarizes the findings and makes twenty-one recommendations pertaining to PSE,…
Descriptors: Employment Problems, Employment Programs, Federal Programs, Job Training
Wider Opportunities for Women, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1979
This paper examines the administration of funds under Title III of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act by the Department of Labor (DOL) with respect to women workers. (Title III funds are discretionary funds administered by DOL's Employment and Training Administration, Division of National Programs (DNP), to provide additional services…
Descriptors: Employed Women, Employment Level, Employment Problems, Employment Programs
