Accession Number:

ADA399223

Title:

Workforce Investment Act: Better Guidance and Revised Funding Formula Would Enhance Dislocated Worker Program

Descriptive Note:

Corporate Author:

GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON DC

Personal Author(s):

• Jeffords, James M.

Report Date:

2002-02-01

Pagination or Media Count:

76.0

Abstract:

WIA specifies one funding source for each of the acts main client groups-adults, youths, and dislocated workers. Labor estimated that approximately 927,000 dislocated workers would be served with these funds in program year 2000. A dislocated worker is an individual who 1 has been terminated or laid off, or who has received a notice of termination or layoff, from employment is eligible for, or has exhausted entitlement to, unemployment insurance or is not eligible but has been employed for a sufficient duration to demonstrate attachment to the workforce and is unlikely to return to previous industry or occupation 2 has been terminated or laid off, or has received a notice of termination or layoff, from employment as a result of any permanent plant closure of, or substantial layoff at, a plant, facility, or enterprise 3 was self employed but is unemployed as a result of general economic conditions in the community in which the individual resides or because of natural disasters or 4 is a displaced homemaker.

Descriptors:

• *WORK FUNCTIONS
• *FEDERAL BUDGETS
• REQUIREMENTS
• CAREERS
• RESOURCES
• PERSONNEL
• WORK
• BIOTECHNOLOGY

Subject Categories:

• Information Science
• Economics and Cost Analysis

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE