Job Training Partnership Act Review 1993 PDF Download

Excerpt from Job Training Partnership Act: Job Cost, Job Outcome: Hearing Before the Employment, Housing, and Aviation Subcommittee on Government Operations, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, First Session, April 29, 1993 The subcommittee met, pursuant to notice, at 9:40 a.m., in room 2247, Rayburn House Office Building, Hon. Collin C. Peterson (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding. Present: Representatives Collin C. Peterson, Bobby L. Rush, Floyd H. Flake, Karen L. Thurman, Barbara-Rose Collins, and Ronald K. Machtley. Also present: Edith Holleman, staff director; Andrea Nelson, counsel; Lisa Phillips, professional staff member: June Saxton, clerk; and Michael D. Nannini, minority professional staff, Committee on Government Operations. Opening Statement of Chairman Peterson Mr. Peterson. The subcommittee will come to order. This is the first in a series of subcommittee hearings into whether the $11 billion the Federal Government spends each year on job training programs actually works to improve the lives, levels of earnings, and mture employability of the individuals who participate in the programs. Our focus today is on the Job Training Partnership Act which, at nearly $2 billion per year, is the largest single Federal job training program. Recent studies of the effectiveness of JTPA conclude that standard JTPA programs, with their traditional priority on placing participants in a job-any job-do not have mucn effect on the level of earnings or future employability of program participants. Testifying about their reports today are the Labor Department's Office of Inspector General, the General Accounting Office, and ABT Associates-a private consultant specifically retained by the Labor Department to evaluate the impact of JTPA on program participants. We will also hear today from several local private industry councils that have moved aggressively to reverse this pattern of minimal results through innovative strategies such as carefully targeting the needs of local employers and coordinating training ana support services to most effectively benefit program participants. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.