Proceedings are presented of hearings before the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Employment, Poverty, and Migratory Labor of the Committee on Labor and Human Resources on the Youth Employment Act, 1980. The act is designed to provide an effective and efficient youth employment program designed to improve career opportunities for youth between the ages of eighteen and twenty-four, particularly economically disadvantaged youth. Among those testifying at the hearing were five unemployed young persons, representatives of the United Auto Workers, AFL-CIO, and the National Commission for Employment Policy. (LRA)