Word: on-the-job
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Planners are hoping for $8 million under the recent Kennedy-Javits amendment to the Economic Opportunity Act; it provides incentives to businesses which set up on-the-job training programs. Even without that money, a small metal-working firm, providing 30 or 40 jobs, has agreed to locate in the neighborhood, and five other companies of about that size are considering the idea...
...time duties as Assistant Secretary of Labor. Betty got interested in politics while doing commercials at national conventions, stumped a bit for L.B.J. in 1964, lately has been recruiting for Project Head Start and VISTA. Becoming the consumer's guardian angel is "going to be very largely on-the-job training as far as I am concerned," she admitted, as she started doing her own grocery shopping for the first time in 15 years. Then she wryly reported her research to a women's club in Royal Oak, Mich. "Eggs," she confided, "are 59? a dozen...
...increased very substantially. The quality of the education they receive must be made equal to the quality of education of whites. And more specific vocational skills must be made available, whether through apprenticeship programs, vocational schools, Now is the time fora cational schools, manpower training policies or on-the-job experience. These programs of human investment will require immense resources from all levels of government, from employers, and not least from the Negro families themselves. In addition, the gates of opportunity must be opened all the way. Both companies and unions should heed Whitney Young's call to actively seek...
...program of community and spiritual renewal in East Harlem. As a condition for accepting the seminary's presidency, Bonnell has been given a free hand in overhauling the curriculum, which will soon offer new masters' degrees in pastoral counseling and urban ministry, complete with on-the-job training in slum parishes...
...prevent so drastic a change in U.S. justice. Under a 1964 law, indigent federal prisoners may now be represented by paid public defenders, and last year Clark suggested that law students could aid the federal defenders while learning the art of advocacy in the process. Such on-the-job training for students would serve much the same purpose as the back-to-school movement that provides continuing legal education for practicing attorneys (TIME, March 25); it might also enlarge the nation's short supply of trial lawyers by whetting the appetites of fledglings who would otherwise pass up such...