Multiple Employment Training Programs: Most Federal Agencies Do Not Know
If Their Programs Are Working Effectively (Letter Report, 03/02/94,
GAO/HEHS-94-88).

Federal agencies closely monitor the billions of dollars they spend on
employment training for the poor.  The federal government plans to spend
an estimated $17 billion in fiscal year 1994 to help the economically
disadvantaged compete in the workforce.  Most agencies, however, neither
collect information on participant outcomes nor study program
effectiveness--both of which are needed to know how well programs are
helping participants enter or reenter the workforce.  As a result,
agencies cannot be sure how successful the programs have been in
preparing people to obtain jobs.  Even when participants were hired,
agencies did not know whether the employment resulted from program
participation or whether participants would have found the same kind of
jobs without federal assistance.

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 REPORTNUM:  HEHS-94-88
     TITLE:  Multiple Employment Training Programs: Most Federal 
             Agencies Do Not Know If Their Programs Are Working
             Effectively
      DATE:  03/02/94
   SUBJECT:  Employment or training programs
             Disadvantaged persons
             Monitoring
             Aid for training or employment
             Statistical data
             Data collection operations
             Vocational education
             Education program evaluation
IDENTIFIER:  Food Stamp Employment and Training Program
             Even Start Program
             
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