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10. WORK INCENTIVE PROGRAM (WIN)

1. Program: WORK INCENTIVE PROGRAM (WIN)

2. Authorizing Legislation: Social Security Act, Title IV-C

3. Administering Agency: Department of Labor

4. Description: The WIN program provides a broad range of manpower and related services to welfare recipients who are receiving payments under Aid to Families with Dependent Children. Its objective is to enable qualifying and able recipients to become self-supporting and to reduce the welfare rolls. A direct State relationship exists in that the Federal Government contracts directly with the States to operate WIN programs, which are carried by the State Employment Service offices.

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11. SERVICE, EMPLOYMENT AND REDEVELOPMENT (SER) PROGRAM

Program: SERVICE, EMPLOYMENT & REDEVELOPMENT (SER)

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3. Administering Agency: Department of Labor, Manpower Administration 4. Description: Program focuses on the needs of unemployed and underemployed Mexican-Americans through counselling, pre-job orientation, pre-vocational training conducted by SER and skill-training provided primarily through State Departments of Vocational Education. Through these services, trainees are given the confidence and competence to be placed in jobs.

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12. OPPORTUNITIES INDUSTRIALIZATION CENTERS (OIC)

Department of Labor's Press Release June 7, 1971

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'OIC' BROADENS HORIZONS OF DISADVANTAGED BLACKS

PHILADELPHIA

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The way to help people is "not just to give them milk and honey in heaven, but to give them ham and eggs on earth. "

Those words of the Rev. Leon Sullivan pretty well summarize the goal of Opportunities Industrialization Centers (OIC) which started here and is blossoming nationally.

OIC, founded by the Rev. Sullivan, seeks to break down barriers of discrimination against black and other disadvantaged workers by offering employers well-trained, highly-motivated employees.

Judging from the record, the "ham-and-eggs" philosophy espoused by the strapping Philadelphia minister with the booming voice is working in the OIC.

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mainly blacks

Over the past seven years, OIC has trained 66, 000 persons recruited from inner-city neighborhoods and placed 41,000 in jobs.

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A detailed account of the OIC story is featured in the June issue of Manpower magazine, published monthly by the Department of Labor's Manpower Administration.

OIC training graduates are working as plumbers, carpenters, draftsmen, secretaries, chefs and in 200 other occupations. Their incomes have risen from an average of $2, 094 before OIC training to $4, 277 immediately afterwards, with future prospects looking better.

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The program -- now operating in part with Federal funds got underway in January 1964 in an abandoned police station and jail in North Philadelphia made available by the city for $1 per year.

By 1970, OICs were operating in 18 cities with $13.7 million in funds from the Departments of Labor and Health, Education and Welfare and the Office of Economic Opportunity. Moreover, six others received grants from the Commerce Department, some others were components of the Concentrated Employment Program and more than 70 others were operating with voluntary funding.

Early this year, the Manpower Administration announced it would allocate an additional $10.7 million to bring 40 to 50 more OICs under Federal funding by June 1972. The 68 cities receiving Federal money are expected to bring job and training opportunities annually to more than 27, 000 disadvantaged persons.

! OIC puts strong emphasis on drawing its staff from among the people it serves and being self-sufficient. Most staff members in Philadelphia and around the country

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are black as are the trainees. The organization tries to give them the basic services they need, including prevocational education, counseling and testing, training, job development and placement and followup -- all through its own staff and facilities.

The unique program also stresses for the individual trainee the importance

of self and racial pride. As the Rev. Sullivan explains it:

"We teach him how to put his head up and his shoulders back, for we have found that the most important aspect of motivation is self-respect. Enrollees are taught that, as with a balloon, it is not the color that determines how high a man can rise, but what he has inside him. And that the real worth of a man is what he does with what he has inside him."

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SPECIAL ENGINEERS AND SCIENTISTS PROGRAM--TECHNI CAL
MOBILIZATION AND RE-EMPLOYMENT PROGRAM

1. Program: Technological Mobilization and Reemployment Program (RMRP)

2. Authorizing Legislation: MDTA

3. Administering Agency: Department of Labor

4. Description: TMRP offers special assistance to those laid off from aerospace and defense jobs. The program finances four major activities - jobsearch grants, relocation grants, job retraining, and skill conversion studies. The program accelerates productive and effective utilization of currently underused technological talent, increases employment opportunities, and speeds up job finding for unemployed engineers and scientists.

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