States Focus on Long-Term Unemployed ; Federal Grants Fund New Services Offering Job Training and LeadsBRIDGEPORT, Conn. - Maybe it was Tony Stanley's furrowed browthat was keeping him from getting a...Povich, Elaine S
In most of the federal provinces there are “family grants”, especially for families with many children, which are meant as a financial relief to parents with several children, as well as to make it possible for one parent to forego any gainful activity for the time during which this grant...
Flexible workforce development and train- ing funding is essential to address the emerging green jobs sector, returning veterans, retiring baby boomer generation and the still large number of unemployed Americans. As evidenced in this report, maintaining WIA set-aside funding for statewide activities ...
The Roosevelt administration understood more fundamental reforms were needed to prevent a recurrence of what had happened when the nation’s economy failed to provide the jobs and public relief necessary to meet the financial needs of unemployed workers and their families. President Roosevelt sent a ...
for aged and retired workers and for temporarily unemployed workers (the beginning of today's Social Security and Unemployment Compensation programs). It also authorized federal grants to states to make cash aid payments to two groups, in addition to the elderly, who were not expected to work. ...
Two other factors that contributed to industrial growth were the availability of large reserves of highly skilled workers (10.3 percent of the labor force was unemployed in 1949) and small direct military expenditures. The country’s industrial output increased by 25.8 percent in 1950 and by 18 ...
They include elderly and disabled individuals, children and their families, single adults and couples without children, workers and nonworkers, veterans, homeless people, refugees, students, and others. While some popular perceptions of "welfare" assume that beneficiaries are unemployed able-bodied ...
Under the program, states provide temporary partial wage replacement to involuntarily unemployed workers with significant labor force attachment. The federal government induced states to establish UI programs through two means: 1) a uniform federal tax imposed on employer payrolls, with a 90 percent ...
Flexible workforce development and train- ing funding is essential to address the emerging green jobs sector, returning veterans, retiring baby boomer generation and the still large number of unemployed Americans. As evidenced in this report, maintaining WIA set-aside funding for statewide activities ...