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Somerset Community Coll, KY. – 1987
During the 1986-87 program year, the Transitional Support Services Program, a cooperatively funded project between the Job Training Partnership Act and the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act, continued its services as a career development program for single parents/homemakers in Kentucky who are unemployed or underemployed. The program…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Development, Displaced Homemakers, Divorce
O'Hare, William P. – 1988
Dramatic demographic and socioeconomic shifts have occurred in rural areas over the last decade, increasing poverty among America's rural population. Analysis of the Census Bureau's Current Population Survey indicates that outmigration from rural areas, which has grown steadily since 1980, reached almost 1,000,000 between 1986 to 1987. Those…
Descriptors: Age Groups, Educational Attainment, Family Income, Low Income
Frey, Donald N. – 1982
The way resources are deployed to educate Americans will affect, as never before, productivity, the economy, and the quality of life. To maintain the present standard of living, Americans will be dependent on a continuous infusion of scientific breakthroughs and productivity-enhancing technology. Periodic upgrading of skills will be a necessity…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Economic Progress, Economics, Industry
Stoessiger, Rex – 1980
Three regions of Tasmania (the Huon Valley, North-East Tasmania, and the Derwent Valley) were studied between June 1978 and June 1980 to discover what happens to school leavers in rural country areas and how their options and opportunities were to be considered with regard to range of occupational choices perceived to be or actually available. A…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Access to Education, Career Awareness, Disadvantaged
Metz, A. Stafford; Hammer, Charles H. – 1981
Findings are presented from the National Center for Education Statistics' 1978 Recent College Graduates Survey, which estimates the number of recent graduates and the February 1978 employment and salary status of individuals who received bachelor's degrees from July 1, 1976, to June 30, 1977. A nationally representative sample of 297 institutions…
Descriptors: Bachelors Degrees, College Graduates, Education Work Relationship, Employment Patterns
Roe, Betty Boyd – 1981
Many student personnel professionals find that declining enrollments are affecting the supply and demand for their services. To assess current career needs and programs and to determine whether student personnel staff perceived a need for personal career enrichment, student personnel workers (N=183) in three state universities were surveyed.…
Descriptors: Developmental Programs, Employee Attitudes, Higher Education, Job Enrichment
Joint Economic Committee, Washington, DC. – 1977
This compendium of seventeen papers discusses women's overall role in a full employment economy and their problems in fulfilling that role. It begins with a comprehensive summary of the authors' views and then presents the papers in six sections: (1) overview; (2) overcoming barriers; (3) support services and adjusted conditions; (4) education and…
Descriptors: Career Opportunities, Economically Disadvantaged, Employed Women, Employment Patterns
Hartz, John; Lambert, Roger – 1980
Developed to aid agencies assisting the economically disadvantaged, unemployed, or underemployed in selecting good career information and the most useful career/occupational information systems, these guidelines present basic background on and criteria for evaluating career information and the systems which deliver the information. Preliminary…
Descriptors: Adults, Career Choice, Career Education, Delivery Systems
Gurin, Gerald – 1968
Results of a study of an experimental and demonstration job training project (Chicago JOBS Project) for approximately 1,500 underemployed "functionally illiterate" inner-city Negro youth are reported. The project, which lasted from September of 1963 to the summer of 1964, included basic education, vocational training, and group and…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Basic Skills, Black Youth, Dropouts
Kobrak, Peter – 1971
In an examination of the private assumption of public responsibilities, the writer argues that development of the JOBS program occurred relatively smoothly, because the federal government, White House, and a segment of the business community shared a number of assumptions including a willingness to overlook the critical role played by the…
Descriptors: Business, Community Influence, Community Services, Employment
Kleibrink, Michael C.; Ruesink, David C. – 1971
The problem of moving workers from one community to another is not a new topic, but it is a little studied one. Much research has been done on the demographic characteristics of migrants, but there are very few studies of the sociopsychological characteristics of migration. In this study, the importance placed by the relocated individual on…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Job Training, Labor Force Development, Mexican Americans
Zachariasen, Ellen, Comp. – 1970
This select bibliography on poverty in the U.S. is divided into the following areas: (1) general references; (2) economics of poverty; (3) the poor; (4) Office of Economic Opportunity Programs - General; (5) Community Action, VISTA, and participation of the poor; (6) manpower and poverty; (7) poverty and health; (8) education and the poor; (9) the…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Economics, Federal Programs, Health
George Washington Univ., Washington, DC. Inst. for Educational Leadership. – 1976
Underemployment is the focus of this transcript of a radio series broadcast by the National Public Radio System, entitled "Can You Get There from Here?" The first of a 4-part series on the relationship between schooling and jobs, this program incorporates studio interviews with: James O'Toole of the Center for the Study of the Future; a ceramics…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Discussion, Educational Radio, Employment
Lerman, Robert I. – 1999
Stagnant or declining wages for less-educated workers make policies to upgrade the job market options for low wage workers an urgent priority. One in three low wage workers lives in a low income family. The link between low basic skills and low wages is strong. No single standard of minimum skill requirements applies to all middle income jobs, and…
Descriptors: Adults, Basic Skills, Disadvantaged, Educational Needs
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Tigges, Leann M.; Tootle, Deborah M. – Rural Sociology, 1990
Examines the effect of the labor market structure on underemployment and low-wage employment of urban and rural White males. Examines factors of special public employment, global industrial competition, sexual competition, and high proportion of rural female workers. Concludes industrial restructuring and increased foreign competition threaten…
Descriptors: Dislocated Workers, Employment Opportunities, Employment Patterns, Employment Potential
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