This volume supplied background information for employment and training legislation for the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare of the United States Senate for 1968. It includes: (1) excerpts from reports and recommendations of national committees and commissions on civil disorders, rural poverty, technology and automation, food and fiber, and urban coalition, (2) the complete texts of the Manpower Development and Training Act, Title I-B and D of the Economic Opportunity Act together with two articles evaluating federal manpower programs, (3) the President's proposals from his 1968 State of the Union Message and Manpower Message and Budgets, and (4) several proposals made by senators in the 90th Congress. A complete report on the 1968 hearings before the Senate Subcommittee on Employment, Manpower and Poverty is available as VT 010 274. (BC)