Job Corps study links training to higher pay and lower unemployment
A government study by Louis A. Harris for the Office of Economic Opportunity finds Job Corps participants show higher wages and reduced unemployment. Based on interviews with 9,463 former enrollees and 1,850 associates, the report asserts a positive impact and notes Black youths can succeed with equal opportunity.
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Washington
Congress
Louis A. Harris
Office of Economic Opportunity
House Education and Labor Committee
Harris
Carl D. Perkins
D-Ky
Perkins
Executive Branch
Haris
Jol Corps
Family Reunited in Death From Viet Cong Massacre
Pvt. Nguyen My identified kin from a mass grave near Hue after the 1968 Tet offensive. The scene shows families grieving as laborers exhume bodies, assign numbers, and prepare coffins, with My lamenting two brothers taken by the Viet Cong. An official records identifications amid emotional reunions. The article also notes Job Corps profiles youths from the poorest families with low education and reading levels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Horst Faas Xuan
Vietnam
Nguyen My
Hue
Nguyen Doan
Popular Forces
Duc
Doan
Lve
Duetava
Doc
Daan
Harris
Nine Denominations Rally for COCA Sunday Ecumenical Scramble
Nine denominations with about 25 million members join in COCA Sunday as part of eight years of Consultation on Church Union efforts. An ecumenical service uses an experimental order of worship drawn from early Christian liturgies and urges unity among Protestants across denominations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George W. Cornell
NEW York
God
United Church of the
Louisville
Iowa City
Iowa
Fort Worth
Tex
Episcopalians
United Presbyterians
Southern Presbyterians
United Methodists
United Church of Christ, Christians (Disciples
Paul A. Crow Jr
Princeton
N.J
National Council of Churches
Paul VI
Jan G. Willebrand
Vatican Secretariat
Christian Unity
Augustin Cardinal Bea
Eugene Carson Blake
Geneva
Switzerland
World Council of Churches
Willebrand
Gerald Strober
American Jewish Committee
Robert F. Nelson
Gregorian University
Rome
Milwaukee
Polands Tourist Mix Shows West Germans Among Visitors
AP report summarizes Poland tourism year with 2 million visitors, 1.6 million from Communist bloc and 22,900 from West Germany, 20,000 from the United States. It notes mixed views on Job Corps outcomes in the U.S. program and calls for stronger ex corps counseling.
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Warsaw
Poland
West Germany
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England
Fairford
France
Calverton
Nottinghamshire
Aosta
Italy
Aosta Alpine
Moscow
North Korea
Terestia
Tzvestia
U.S
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Uare
Nixon
Cal
Educational Barrin
Swanson Motors
Oldsmobile
Swanson’s
Swanson Motors, Inc
Riverside Dr
Pas
Smithfield
Tunstall Road
Ballou Park Center
American Electric Power System
Betsy Miller
Ppalachian Power CO
Lake Michigan
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