Excerpt from Simplifying the Maze of Federal Employment Training Programs: Hearing Before the Employment, Housing, and Aviation Subcommittee on Government Operations, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, Second Session, May 3, 1994 The subcommittee met, pursuant to notice, at 10 a.m., in room 2247, Raybum House Office Building, Hon. Collin C.Peterson (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding. Present: Representatives Collin C.Peterson, Bobby L.Rush, William H. Zeliff, Jr., and Christopher Shays. Also present: Joy Simonson, professional staff member; June Saxton, clerk; and Joe McHugh, minority professional staff. Committee on Government Operations. Opening Statement Of Chairman Peterson Mr. Peterson. The subcommittee will come to order. Today the Employment, Housing, and Aviation Subcommittee continues its series of hearings on employment training programs of the Federal Government. Two months ago we heard from the General Accounting Office, the National Governors Association, and officials from three State labor agencies about the severe problems caused by fragmentation of these programs. The GAO reports that there are 154 training programs in 14 Federal agencies, costing about $25 billion a year. The programs have overlapping target groups and different eligibility criteria, funding streams, structures, and reporting systems. This bureaucratic maze of programs frustrates and confuses the public, service providers and, worst of all, the job seekers in need of help. We can no longer tolerate the waste of Federal money, the waste of money at the Federal, State, and local levels which results from this uncoordinated crazy quilt of programs. The administration has proposed a Reemployment Act which moves toward an integrated system by merging several dislocated worker programs within the Labor Department. This hearing is not the forum to review the bill in any detail. The subcommittee is looking beyond this constructive first step in search of broader interagency or governmentwide measures. We know that ours is not the first effort to achieve coordination among education and training services. The Job Training Partnership Act, for example, provides an 8 percent setaside for coordination of education and training services at the State and local level. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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