Employment Security Review, Volume 29

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United States Department of Labor, Manpower Administration, Bureau of Employment Security, 1962
 

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Page 5 - ... assist in coordinating the public employment offices throughout the country and in increasing their usefulness by developing and prescribing minimum standards of efficiency, assisting them in meeting problems peculiar to their localities, promoting uniformity in their administrative and statistical procedure, furnishing and publishing information as to opportunities for employment and other information of value in the operation of the system, and maintaining a system for clearing labor between...
Page 5 - States and the political subdivisions thereof in which there shall be located a veterans' employment service. The bureau shall also assist in co-ordinating the public employment offices throughout the country and in increasing their usefulness by developing and prescribing minimum standards of efficiency, assisting them in meeting problems peculiar to their localities, promoting uniformity in their administrative and statistical procedure, furnishing and publishing information as to opportunities...
Page 5 - It shall be the province and duty of the bureau to promote and develop a national system of employment offices for men, women, and juniors who are legally qualified to engage in gainful occupations, to maintain a veterans...
Page 32 - In a slum section composed almost entirely of Negroes in one of our largest cities the following situation was found : A total of 59 percent of the male youth between the ages of 16 and 21 were out of school and unemployed. They were roaming the streets. Of the boys who graduated from high school, 48 percent were •unemployed in contrast to 63 percent of the boys who had dropped out of school.
Page 5 - ... conditions under which there will be afforded useful employment opportunities, including self-employment for those able. willing, and seeking to work, and to promote maximum employment, production, and purchasing power.
Page 26 - Labor shall be to foster, promote, and develop the welfare of the wage earners of the United States, to improve their working conditions, and to advance their opportunities for profitable employment.
Page 32 - ... Of the boys who graduated from high school 48 percent were unemployed in contrast to 63 percent of the boys who had dropped out of school. In short, two-thirds of the male dropouts did not have jobs and about half of the high school graduates did not have jobs. In such a situation, a pupil may well ask why bother to stay in school when graduation for half the boys opens onto a dead-end street?
Page 43 - The fastest growth will occur among professional and technical occupations, especially engineers, scientists and technicians. Among the manual occupations, the need for skilled craftsmen will increase, but the number of unskilled jobs will stay about the same, continuing their long lerm relative decline. and the biggest increases will occur in occupations requiring the most education and training...
Page 32 - ... are and should be closely tied together. I am not impressed by the holding power of a school as a criterion of its quality, but neither am I impressed by the argument that a boy who fails to get along in school ought to drop out. It all depends. The situation in which a boy drops out of school only to roam the streets is quite different from the situation in which a boy drops out and finds satisfactory employment. Full-time schooling for certain youths through grade 12 may be good or bad depending...
Page 9 - ... 75 percent above the national average for 2 of the preceding 3 calendar years; or (c) 100 percent above the national average for 1 of the preceding 2 calendar years.

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