Youth Employment and Welfare Reform Jobs, 1980: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Employment, Poverty, and Migratory Labor of the Committee on Labor and Human Resources, United States Senate, Ninety-sixth Congress, Second Session, on Examination on Legislative Proposals Relating to Youth Employment and the Administration's Welfare Reform Jobs Bill, March 5, 6, 12, and 13, 1980U.S. Government Printing Office, 1980 - 892 pages |
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activities Administration adult AFDC AFL-CIO allocation areas average basic skills bill career CETA prime sponsors CETA programs Chairman cities Committee Congress cooperation coordination counseling County demonstration director disadvantaged youth dropouts economic education agencies effective efforts eligible employability employers employment and training Employment Service enrollees enrollment experience families federal fiscal funds Gaylord Nelson high school Hispanic income increase individuals institutions Job Corps job search assistance KOLBERG labor market legislation Leon Sullivan March 13 ment migrant million minimum wage National Native American needs operation participants percent placement population Private Industry Councils private sector problems PSIP recommendations Secretary MARSHALL Section Senator NELSON slots staff statement subpart support services target Task Force tion Title VII training opportunities training programs unemployed Union County unsubsidized vocational education wage welfare reform workers YEDPA young youth employment youth programs
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Page 36 - The family income of eligible youths must be below 85 percent of the Bureau of Labor Statistics...
Page 346 - Department of Health. Education, and Welfare Department of Housing and Urban Development Department of the Interior Department of Justice Department of Labor Department of State Department of...
Page 104 - ... performance to rewards: (8) Schools and prime sponsors should be encouraged or required to establish local performance standards and disadvantaged youth who achieve the standards should be rewarded with entrance into a more generously stipended program or with a job opportunity. Those who fail to meet the standards should be given second chance opportunities, whenever possible. (9) Prime sponsors should encourage the Private Industry Councils to obtain specifications from employers about the...
Page 107 - ... President should direct the Secretary of Defense to review the experience of Project 100,000 during the late 1960s which was successful in recruiting and providing special training for 246,000 young men who did not meet the regular qualifications. (20) When the various pieces of legislation that authorize grants-in-aid are being considered for adoption or renewal, the Administration and the Congress should consider writing in provisions that would encourage or require that the grant recipients...
Page 577 - Vocational education means organized educational programs which are directly related to the preparation of individuals for paid or unpaid employment...
Page 31 - ... existing programs. Experimentation and demonstration activity, unprecedented in size and scope, provided and is still providing knowledge necessary to improve the effectiveness of employment and training services. A solid foundation has been established for youth policies of the 1980's. Let me give you a few examples. The four major new youth employment and training programs created under YEDPA were fully underway within six months of the signing of the Act. They have now been stabilized and...
Page 98 - I. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Goals Given high and rising rates of unemployment, especially among minority youth, and the cumulative deficits which are often produced by growing up in a low-income or minority family and community, the Commission recommends that the nation make a new commitment to improving the employment prospects of disadvantaged youth. More specifically: • The President and the Congress should identify the employability and employment problems of disadvantaged youth as a domestic issue...
Page 103 - ... achieved at the elementary level and (b) to provide a second chance for those not adequately served at the elementary level. (3) To encourage a partnership with other local institutions, a portion of the new compensatory education funds recommended in (2) should be set-aside for allocation on the basis of close consultation between the schools and CETA. This would be comparable to the 22 percent set-aside under the Youth Employment and Training Program which should continue to be allocated on...
Page 106 - ... up to 20 percent of their funds under the youth title to assist youth who do not meet the income requirement but nevertheless face substantial barriers to employment. (15) The majority of the funds for the consolidated youth title should be distributed by formula to local prime sponsors. However, a sizeable portion should be set aside for supplemental grants to areas with high concentrations of low-income families and another portion should be reserved to the Secretary of Labor to reward superior...
Page 99 - Federal resources should be targeted on youth most in need. While there is no simple way to identify this group, those youth most at risk come from lowincome families, are members of a minority group, or live in areas with high concentrations of low-income families. The major objective of federal education, training, and employment programs for youth should be to improve the long-term employability of these youth ; that is, their basic education, work habits, ability to absorb new skills on the job,...