Vietnam veterans are finding it extremely difficult of find jobs upon their return home. Altogether there are approximately 320,000 known unemployed veterans. Statistics show that they have a higher unemployment rate than nonveterans, and that the unemployment persists longer. Factors contributing to this condition are the economic slump, a…

There are large groups of people in this country who want to work, but cannot get useful jobs, because they are undereducated, unskilled, considered too young or to old, or are subject to discrimination. The Committee for Economic Development (CED) has been examining the problem and in a new report has called for a broad set of private and public…

Emphasizing five variables of particular importance to vocational education, the article describes the youth unemployment problem, what is currently being done to combat it, what vocational education can do to help, and what the government can do to help. (BM)

This article describes a demonstration project designed to assist in the upgrading of job skills among hardcore, inner-city, underemployed clients. The token economy procedure is described and its use in the present study is detailed. (Author)

Test projects seek ways to take inner city residents to suburban jobs. (Editor)

Describes a workshop which provided employment counseling for aerospace engineers who were laid off after cutbacks in government contracts. (BH)

Based on a chapter entitled "Barriers to Employment of the Disadvantaged by Martin Deutsch and S. M. Miller in "Manpower Report of the President, 1968. Discusses the Nixon proposals for remediating poverty in relation to the socioeconomic factors operating to maintain the condition of being poor while working. (JM)

This article traces the history of the emergence of large cities and examines the outlook for the future. It then answers questions about the effects of city size on general living conditions and on the various aspects of employment and the ways in which it might develop. (CT)

Since severely disabled veterans have the greatest employment problems, increased efforts in their behalf are recommended. Improved employment service activities for veterans and more extensive and intensive job development are sorely needed. (MW)

An indication of the rearrangements of power, privilege, income and wealth distribution that are necessary for the establishment of full employment with price stability; involving policies of guaranteed public service jobs, income maintenance, prices and wages controls, a redistributive taxation system, and the eventual "socialization of…

A comprehensive review was undertaken of the serious problem of youth unemployment in the countries of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) (most of the countries of Europe and the United States), and the means for dealing with it in the longer term. The study found that youth unemployment has been a major concern since…

The average unemployment level on Wisconsin Indian reservations is 39%. Across Wisconsin Indian communities, unemployment ranges from 20% to nearly 70%. A study of Indian unemployment in Wisconsin indicates that the employment level in Indian communities both on and off the reservation is affected by such conditions as the out-migration of Indians…

An attempt was made in this study to clarify the concept of structural unemployment, defined as the amount of unemployment (less minimum frictional and seasonal unemployment) that remains at the level of demand which is consistent with general price stability. A principle objective of the study was to examine in some detail the changes in the…

The Appalachian region of Southwest Virginia was selected as a surplus labor area in a pilot project to show the effectiveness of using financial assistance to increase mobility and reduce unemployment. Most of the workers were relocated in Alexandria, Newport News, Richmond, and Petersburg. Of the 920 unemployed workers interviewed, 200 were…