Multiple Employment Training Programs: Conflicting Requirements
Underscore Need for Change (Testimony, 03/10/94, GAO/T-HEHS-94-120).

Despite decades of effort to better employment training programs,
conflicting eligibility requirements and differences in annual operating
cycles are hampering the ability of the programs to provide participants
needed services. Six different standards for defining "low income," five
definitions of family or household, and five definitions of what is
included in income make determining who is "economically disadvantaged"
a complex process. Similarly, differences in age criteria for older
worker and youth programs turn coordination into a "jigsaw puzzle." GAO
supports overhauling and consolidating the employment training programs
to create a customer-driven system embodying four principles:
simplicity, tailored services, administrative efficiency, and
accountability. In the interim, Congress, the administration, and
representatives from state and local programs need to cooperate to
identify and eliminate differences in program requirements.

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 REPORTNUM:  T-HEHS-94-120
     TITLE:  Multiple Employment Training Programs: Conflicting 
             Requirements Underscore Need for Change
      DATE:  03/10/94
   SUBJECT:  Aid for training or employment
             Vocational education
             Human resources training
             Employment or training programs
             Program evaluation
             Program abuses
             Administrative costs
             Eligibility criteria
             Disadvantaged persons
             State-administered programs
IDENTIFIER:  Job Opportunities and Basic Skills Training Program
             Job Training Partnership Act Program
             Aid to Families with Dependent Children Program
             AFDC
             Food Stamp Employment and Training Program
             Food Stamp Program
             JTPA
             ETA Senior Community Service Employment Program
             DOL Economic Dislocation and Worker Adjustment Assistance 
             Program
             Trade Adjustment Assistance Program
             Job Training Partnership Act Block Grant
             DOL Employment Service Program
             JOBS Program
             
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