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Report to Congressional Requesters:

United States General Accounting Office:

GAO:

April 2003:

Multiple Employment and Training Programs:

Funding and Performance Measures for Major Programs:

GAO-03-589:

Contents:

Letter:

Appendix I: Update of Employment and Training Programs:

Appendix II: Federally Funded Employment and Training

Programs by Agency, Fiscal Year 2002:

Appendix III: Appropriations, Fiscal Year 1999-2003:

Appendix IV: Estimated Number of Program Participants Who Received 

Employment and Training Services:

Appendix V: Programs Requiring Beneficiaries to be

Economically Disadvantaged in Fiscal Year

1999 or 2002:

Appendix VI: Outcome Measures:

Appendix VII: Population Groups Served by Employment and

Training Programs:

Appendix VIII: Services Provided by Employment and Training Programs:

Appendix IX: Program Objectives and Eligibility Criteria for

Federally Funded Employment and Training

Programs:

Related Products:

Tables:

Table 1: OMBs Common Measures for Employment and Training Programs:

Table 2: Programs Outcome Tracking Requirements Under OMBs Common 

Measures Initiative and Outcome Measures Tracked by the Programs in 

Fiscal Year 2003:

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United States General Accounting Office:

Washington, DC 20548:

April 18, 2003:

The Honorable John A. Boehner

Chairman

Committee on Education and the Workforce

House of Representatives:

The Honorable Howard P. Buck McKeon

Chairman

Subcommittee on 21ST Century Competitiveness

Committee on Education and the Workforce

House of Representatives:

Federally funded employment and training programs serve an important 

role in the nations economy by helping job seekers enhance their job 

skills, identify job opportunities and ultimately find employment. 

While the Department of Labor is responsible for overseeing many of 

these programs, other agencies such as the Departments of Health and 

Human Services (HHS) and Housing and Urban Development (HUD) also play 

a role. In the 1990s, we issued a series of reports that highlighted 

the range of programs that provided employment and training services. 

Again in 2000, just after the implementation of the Workforce 

Investment Act (WIA), which provided for a consolidated service 

delivery system for many of the programs, we reviewed the workforce 

development system, identifying 40 federally funded employment and 

training programs--operated through seven federal agencies--for which a 

key program goal was providing employment and training 

assistance.[Footnote 1] As WIA approaches reauthorization, it is 

important to re-examine the systems structure to determine if 

additional changes are indicated.

To understand the current structure, you asked us to provide you with 

an update of the employment and training programs we reported on in 

2000. Specifically, you asked us to determine (1) how many federal 

employment and training programs there were in fiscal year 2002, their 

appropriations in fiscal years 2001, 2002, and 2003, and the proportion 

of funds used to provide employment and training services; (2) how many 

individuals were served by the programs and the target populations and 

services associated with each program; and (3) the kinds of outcome 

measures used by the programs.

To address these questions, we distributed a questionnaire to officials 

in nine federal agencies, collecting information about funding levels, 

type and number of participants, services provided and outcome 

measures. Applying the same definition used in the earlier study, we 

defined employment and training programs as those specifically designed 

to (1) help job seekers find employment (2) enhance specific job skills 

of individuals in order to increase their employability, and (3) 

identify job opportunities. Our analysis included all programs reported 

in the earlier study if they were still funded in fiscal year 2002, as 

well as additional programs identified by agency officials and 

confirmed by questionnaire responses. We compared the results to those 

we obtained in the earlier study. We also consulted the 2002 Catalog of 

Federal Domestic Assistance to corroborate responses obtained in the 

questionnaire and to verify that employment and training activities 

were a major focus of the programs. We conducted our work from November 

2002 to March 2003 in accordance with generally accepted government 

auditing standards.

On March 21, 2003, we briefed your staff on the results of our 

analyses. This report formally conveys the information provided during 

that briefing.

In summary, we identified 44 programs administered by 9 federal 

agencies that provided a range of employment and training services. 

While many of the programs were the same as those included in the 2000 

report, 10 programs were newly identified and 6 previously identified 

programs had been discontinued. Collectively, appropriations for 

employment and training programs remained relatively constant between 

fiscal years 1999 and 2002, totaling $30 billion in 2002, with roughly 

$12 billion used for employment and training activities. While six 

programs accounted for 73 percent of the $12 billion total, a majority 

of programs reported using 75 percent or more of their appropriations 

for employment and training activities.

The programs served a total of 29 million individuals, with about 

three-fourths of the programs focusing their services primarily on one 

target population. Some of the programs were small, serving about 100 

participants, while other programs were quite large, serving just over 

19 million participants. Seventy-seven percent of the programs 

identified one primary target population as the intended service 

recipients, with Native Americans, veterans, and youth ranking among 

the most frequently cited target populations. More programs required 

participants to be economically disadvantaged in fiscal year 2002--17 

programs focused on the economically disadvantaged in 2002, compared 

with 15 programs in 1999. In fact, 6 of the 17 programs that currently 

require participants to be economically disadvantaged did not have that 

requirement in 1999. Counseling and job search/job placement activities 

were among the most commonly provided services.

Almost all of the 44 programs we identified reported tracking at least 

one outcome measure, but 2 programs told us that they did not plan to 

track any outcome measures in 2003. Of those programs that are tracking 

outcomes, the most frequently cited performance measure was entered 

employment--the number of program participants finding jobs. This 

measure was tracked by 38 of the 44 programs.

We provided a draft of this report to officials at each of the 9 

agencies for their technical review and incorporated their comments 

where appropriate.

We are sending copies of this report to relevant congressional 

committees and other interested parties and will make copies available 

to others upon request. In addition, the report will be available at no 

charge on GAOs Web site at http://www.gao.gov.

A list of related GAO products is included at the end of this report. 

If you or your staff have any questions concerning this report, please 

contact Dianne Blank or me at (202) 512-7215. Tiffany Boiman, Mark De 

La Rosa, Cindy Steinfink, and Jay Smale also made key contributions to 

this report.

Sigurd R. Nilsen

Director, Education, Workforce,

 and Income Security Issues:

[End of section]

Appendix I: Update of Employment and Training Programs:

[See PDF for briefing]

[End of section]

Appendix II: Federally Funded Employment and Training Programs by 

Agency, Fiscal Year 2002:

[See PDF for image]

[End of section]

Appendix III: Appropriations, Fiscal Year 1999-2003:

Table 2: :

Program name: Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF); 

1999 Appropriation[D]: $ 17,692,000,000; 

2000 Appropriation[D]: $ 16,689,000,000; 

2001 Appropriation[E]: $ 16,689,175,000; 

2002 Appropriation[E]: $ 17,008,625,000; 

2003 Appropriation[E,I]: $ 19,008,625,000.

Program name: State Vocational Rehabilitation Services; 1999

Appropriation[D]: 2,287,128,000; 2000

Appropriation[D]: 2,315,587,000; 2001

Appropriation[E]: 2,375,792,000; 2002

Appropriation[E]: 2,455,385,000; 2003

Appropriation[E,I]: 2,506,948,000.

Program name: WIA Dislocated Workers; 1999

Appropriation[D]: [A]; 2000

Appropriation[D]: 1,589,025,000; 2001

Appropriation[E]: 1,589,025,000; 2002

Appropriation[E]: 1,590,040,000; 2003

Appropriation[E,I]: 1,461,145,495.

Program name: Job Corps; 1999

Appropriation[D]: 1,308,000,000; 2000

Appropriation[D]: 1,358,000,000; 2001

Appropriation[E]: 1,399,148,000; 2002

Appropriation[E]: 1,458,732,000; 2003

Appropriation[E,I]: 1,522,240,700.

Program name: Vocational Education--Basic Grants to States; 1999

Appropriation[D]: 1,013,128,950; 2000

Appropriation[D]: 1,032,003,440; 2001

Appropriation[E]: 1,075,360,000; 2002

Appropriation[E]: 1,153,568,000; 2003

Appropriation[E,I]: 1,513,170,925.

Program name: WIA Youth; 1999

Appropriation[D]: [A]; 2000

Appropriation[D]: 1,240,965,000; 2001

Appropriation[E]: 1,127,965,000; 2002

Appropriation[E]: 1,127,965,000; 2003

Appropriation[E,I]: 994,458,728.

Program name: WIA Adults; 1999

Appropriation[D]: [A]; 2000

Appropriation[D]: 950,000,000; 2001

Appropriation[E]: 950,000,000; 2002

Appropriation[E]: 950,000,000; 2003

Appropriation[E,I]: 898,778,000.

Program name: Employment Service; 1999

Appropriation[D]: 761,700,000; 2000

Appropriation[D]: 761,700,000; 2001

Appropriation[E]: 761,735,000; 2002

Appropriation[E]: 761,735,000; 2003

Appropriation[E,I]: 756,783,723.

Program name: Community Services Block Grant; 1999

Appropriation[D]: 499,828,821; 2000

Appropriation[D]: 527,700,000; 2001

Appropriation[E]: 599,991,000; 2002

Appropriation[E]: 649,967,000; 2003

Appropriation[E,I]: 645,762,085.

Program name: Adult Education--State Grant Program; 1999

Appropriation[D]: 365,000,000; 2000

Appropriation[D]: 441,916,000; 2001

Appropriation[E]: 540,000,000; 2002

Appropriation[E]: 575,000,000; 2003

Appropriation[E,I]: 571,262,500.

Program name: Vocational Rehabilitation for Disabled Veterans; 1999

Appropriation[D]: 483,690,000; 2000

Appropriation[D]: 499,016,000; 2001

Appropriation[E]: 510,421,000; 2002

Appropriation[E]: 560,100,000; 2003

Appropriation[E,I]: [G].

Program name: Senior Community Service Employment Program; 1999

Appropriation[D]: 440,200,000; 2000

Appropriation[D]: 440,200,000; 2001

Appropriation[E]: 440,200,000; 2002

Appropriation[E]: 445,000,000; 2003

Appropriation[E,I]: 442,306,200.

Program name: Trade Adjustment Assistance and NAFTA--Transitional 

Adjustment Assistance; 1999

Appropriation[D]: 360,700,000; 2000

Appropriation[D]: 415,150,000; 2001

Appropriation[E]: 406,550,000; 2002

Appropriation[E]: 415,650,000; 2003

Appropriation[E,I]: 972,000,000.

Program name: Food Stamp Employment and Training Program; 1999

Appropriation[D]: 269,354,000; 2000

Appropriation[D]: 329,904,000; 2001

Appropriation[E]: 353,000,000; 2002

Appropriation[E]: 253,000,000; 2003

Appropriation[E,I]: 110,000,000.

Program name: Youth Opportunity Grants; 1999

Appropriation[D]: [A]; 2000

Appropriation[D]: [A]; 2001

Appropriation[E]: 250,000,000; 2002

Appropriation[E]: 225,000,000; 2003

Appropriation[E,I]: 42,442,320.

Program name: Tech Prep Education Program; 1999

Appropriation[D]: [A]; 2000

Appropriation[D]: [A]; 2001

Appropriation[E]: 106,000,000; 2002

Appropriation[E]: 108,000,000; 2003

Appropriation[E,I]: 107,298,000.

Program name: Disabled Veterans Outreach Program; 1999

Appropriation[D]: 80,040,000; 2000

Appropriation[D]: 80,215,000; 2001

Appropriation[E]: 81,615,000; 2002

Appropriation[E]: 81,365,000; 2003

Appropriation[E,I]: 82,078,003.

Program name: Migrant and Seasonal Farmworkers (Labor); 1999

Appropriation[D]: 71,517,000; 2000

Appropriation[D]: 74,195,000; 2001

Appropriation[E]: 76,770,000; 2002

Appropriation[E]: 80,770,000; 2003

Appropriation[E,I]: 77,330,066.

Program name: Local Veterans Employment Representative Program; 1999

Appropriation[D]: 77,078,000; 2000

Appropriation[D]: 77,253,000; 2001

Appropriation[E]: 77,253,000; 2002

Appropriation[E]: 77,253,000; 2003

Appropriation[E,I]: 77,744,356.

Program name: Opportunities for Youth--Youthbuild Program; 1999

Appropriation[D]: 39,600,000; 2000

Appropriation[D]: 40,000,000; 2001

Appropriation[E]: 60,000,000; 2002

Appropriation[E]: 65,000,000; 2003

Appropriation[E,I]: 65,000,000.

Program name: Youth Challenge Program; 1999

Appropriation[D]: [A]; 2000

Appropriation[D]: [A]; 2001

Appropriation[E]: 62,500,000; 2002

Appropriation[E]: 62,500,000; 2003

Appropriation[E,I]: 64,850,000.

Program name: Native American Employment and Training Programs; 1999

Appropriation[D]: 69,639,842; 2000

Appropriation[D]: 68,814,475; 2001

Appropriation[E]: 55,000,000; 2002

Appropriation[E]: 57,000,000; 2003

Appropriation[E,I]: 55,636,000.

Program name: Responsible Reintegration of Youth Offenders; 1999

Appropriation[D]: [A]; 2000

Appropriation[D]: [A]; 2001

Appropriation[E]: 55,000,000; 2002

Appropriation[E]: 55,000,000; 2003

Appropriation[E,I]: 54,642,500.

Program name: Refugee Assistance--Voluntary Agency Programs; 1999

Appropriation[D]: 43,100,000; 2000

Appropriation[D]: 53,600,000; 2001

Appropriation[E]: 59,214,000; 2002

Appropriation[E]: 54,000,000; 2003

Appropriation[E,I]: 49,000,000.

Program name: Refugee and Entrant Assistance--Targeted Assistance; 1999

Appropriation[D]: 49,477,000; 2000

Appropriation[D]: 49,477,000; 2001

Appropriation[E]: 49,477,000; 2002

Appropriation[E]: 49,477,000; 2003

Appropriation[E,I]: 49,155,400.

Program name: The State Supported Employment Services Program; 1999

Appropriation[D]: 38,152,000; 2000

Appropriation[D]: 38,152,000; 2001

Appropriation[E]: 38,152,000; 2002

Appropriation[E]: 38,152,000; 2003

Appropriation[E,I]: 37,904,000.

Program name: Community Services Block Grant--Discretionary Awards; 

1999

Appropriation[D]: 26,560,000; 2000

Appropriation[D]: 26,560,000; 2001

Appropriation[E]: 29,855,000; 2002

Appropriation[E]: 33,976,000; 2003

Appropriation[E,I]: 32,284,692.

Program name: American Indian Vocational Rehabilitation Service 

Program; 1999

Appropriation[D]: 17,283,000; 2000

Appropriation[D]: 23,390,000; 2001

Appropriation[E]: 23,998,000; 2002

Appropriation[E]: 25,998,000; 2003

Appropriation[E,I]: 26,544,000.

Program name: Migrant Education--High School Equivalency Program; 1999

Appropriation[D]: 9,000,000; 2000

Appropriation[D]: 15,000,000; 2001

Appropriation[E]: 20,000,000; 2002

Appropriation[E]: 23,000,000; 2003

Appropriation[E,I]: 23,347,250.

Program name: Projects with Industry; 1999

Appropriation[D]: 22,071,000; 2000

Appropriation[D]: 22,071,000; 2001

Appropriation[E]: 22,071,000; 2002

Appropriation[E]: 22,071,000; 2003

Appropriation[E,I]: 21,928,000.

Program name: Registered Apprenticeship Training; 1999

Appropriation[D]: 17,660,000; 2000

Appropriation[D]: 19,141,000; 2001

Appropriation[E]: 21,000,000; 2002

Appropriation[E]: 21,000,000; 2003

Appropriation[E,I]: 20,698,579.

Program name: Homeless Veterans Reintegration Program; 1999

Appropriation[D]: 3,000,000; 2000

Appropriation[D]: 9,636,000; 2001

Appropriation[E]: 17,500,000; 2002

Appropriation[E]: 18,250,000; 2003

Appropriation[E,I]: 18,131,375.

Program name: Grants to States for Incarcerated Youth Offenders; 1999

Appropriation[D]: 12,000,000; 2000

Appropriation[D]: 14,000,000; 2001

Appropriation[E]: 17,000,000; 2002

Appropriation[E]: 17,000,000; 2003

Appropriation[E,I]: 18,379,750.

Program name: Serious and Violent Offenders Program; 1999

Appropriation[D]: [A]; 2000

Appropriation[D]: [A]; 2001

Appropriation[E]: 29,934,000; 2002

Appropriation[E]: 14,934,000; 2003

Appropriation[E,I]: 14,836,929.

Program name: Native American Vocational and Technical Education 

Program; 1999

Appropriation[D]: 12,883,125; 2000

Appropriation[D]: 13,195,625; 2001

Appropriation[E]: 13,750,000; 2002

Appropriation[E]: 14,750,000; 2003

Appropriation[E,I]: 14,902,500.

Program name: Indian Employment Assistance; 1999

Appropriation[D]: 10,859,000; 2000

Appropriation[D]: 17,724,845; 2001

Appropriation[E]: 8,775,000; 2002

Appropriation[E]: 9,042,000; 2003

Appropriation[E,I]: [G].

Program name: Tribal Work Grants; 1999

Appropriation[D]: 1,700,000; 2000

Appropriation[D]: 1,700,000; 2001

Appropriation[E]: 7,633,287; 2002

Appropriation[E]: 7,633,287; 2003

Appropriation[E,I]: 7,633,287[H].

Program name: Veterans Workforce Investment Program; 1999

Appropriation[D]: 7,300,000; 2000

Appropriation[D]: 7,300,000; 2001

Appropriation[E]: 7,300,000; 2002

Appropriation[E]: 7,550,000; 2003

Appropriation[E,I]: $ 7,376,738.

Program name: Tribally Controlled Postsecondary Vocational and 

Technical Institutions; 1999

Appropriation[D]: 4,100,000; 2000

Appropriation[D]: 4,600,000; 2001

Appropriation[E]: 5,600,000; 2002

Appropriation[E]: 6,500,000; 2003

Appropriation[E,I]: [6,954,500].

Program name: Indian Vocational Training--United Tribes Technical 

College; 1999

Appropriation[D]: 2,370,000; 2000

Appropriation[D]: 2,370,000; 2001

Appropriation[E]: 2,424,654; 2002

Appropriation[E]: 3,000,000; 2003

Appropriation[E,I]: [G].

Program name: Native Hawaiian Vocational Education; 1999

Appropriation[D]: 2,576,625; 2000

Appropriation[D]: 2,639,125; 2001

Appropriation[E]: 2,639,125; 2002

Appropriation[E]: 2,750,000; 2003

Appropriation[E,I]: 2,980,500.

Program name: Migrant and Seasonal Farmworkers Program (Edcation); 1999

Appropriation[D]: [A]; 2000

Appropriation[D]: [A]; 2001

Appropriation[E]: 2,350,000; 2002

Appropriation[E]: 2,350,000; 2003

Appropriation[E,I]: 2,335,000.

Program name: Indian Job Placement--United Sioux Tribes Development 

Corporation; 1999

Appropriation[D]: 107,000; 2000

Appropriation[D]: [C]; 2001

Appropriation[E]: 106,675; 2002

Appropriation[E]: 250,000; 2003

Appropriation[E,I]: [G].

Program name: H-1B Technical Skills Training; 1999

Appropriation[D]: [A]; 2000

Appropriation[D]: [A]; 2001

Appropriation[E]: [B]; 2002

Appropriation[E]: [B]; 2003

Appropriation[E,I]: [97,625,000].

Program name: Total appropriations; 1999

Appropriation[D]: $26,098,803,363; 2000

Appropriation[D]: $29,251,200,510; 2001

Appropriation[E]: $30,026,279,741; 2002

Appropriation[E]: $30,588,438,287; 2003

Appropriation[E,I]: $37,482,520,101.

Source: GAO analysis.

[A] Not included in the last review.

[B] This program is funded by service fees.

[C] Not funded in fiscal year 2000.

[D] Appropriations information obtained from GAO-01-71.

[E] Appropriations information provided by agency officials.

[F] This figure represents only the portion of the programs funding 

that comes from the Department of Justice.

[G] Agency officials unable to provide appropriations information:

[H] Programs authorization expired after FY 2002. Continuing 

resolutions provide appropriations for the first three quarters of FY 

2003 at FY 2002 levels, and program officials anticipate that the full 

years funding will be $7,633,287.

[I] FY 2003 figures include recision where applicable.

[End of table]

[End of section]

Appendix IV: Estimated Number of Program Participants Who Received 

Employment and Training Services:

Table 3: :

Program: Employment Service; Fiscal year 1999: 12,000,000; Fiscal year 

2002[A,I]: 19,016,071.

Program: Adult Education--State Grant Program; Fiscal year 1999: 

4,020,000; Fiscal year 2002[A,I]: 2,673,692.

Program: Vocational Education--Basic Grants to States; Fiscal year 

1999: 4,000,000[B]; Fiscal year 2002[A,I]: 1,330,404[H].

Program: State Vocational Rehabilitation Services; Fiscal year 1999: 

1,200,000c; Fiscal year 2002[A,I]: 1,300,000[J].

Program: Food Stamp Employment and Training Program; Fiscal year 1999: 

700,000; Fiscal year 2002[A,I]: 712,000.

Program: Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF); Fiscal year 

1999: 875,000; Fiscal year 2002[A,I]: 605,497[J].

Program: Local Veterans Employment Representative Program; Fiscal year 

1999: 498,401; Fiscal year 2002[A,I]: 523,534.

Program: Registered Apprenticeship Training; Fiscal year 1999: 411,000; 

Fiscal year 2002[A,I]: 488,000.

Program: Disabled Veterans Outreach Program; Fiscal year 1999: 498,655; 

Fiscal year 2002[A,I]: 459,814.

Program: WIA Adults; Fiscal year 1999: Not included; Fiscal year 

2002[A,I]: 392,194.

Program: WIA Youth; Fiscal year 1999: Not included; Fiscal year 

2002[A,I]: 373,074.

Program: WIA Dislocated Workers; Fiscal year 1999: Not included; Fiscal 

year 2002[A,I]: 330,439.

Program: Community Services Block Grant--Discretionary Awards; Fiscal 

year 1999: 2,000; Fiscal year 2002[A,I]: 213,764 [E,H].

Program: Senior Community Service Employment Program; Fiscal year 1999: 

101,000; Fiscal year 2002[A,I]: 107,000[J].

Program: Vocational Rehabilitation for Disabled Veterans; Fiscal year 

1999: 52,000; Fiscal year 2002[A,I]: 69,634.

Program: Job Corps; Fiscal year 1999: 70,685; Fiscal year 2002[A,I]: 

67,800.

Program: Youth Opportunity Grants; Fiscal year 1999: Not included; 

Fiscal year 2002[A,I]: 42,000.

Program: Trade Adjustment Assistance and NAFTA--Transitional 

Adjustment Assistance; Fiscal year 1999: 30,000; Fiscal year 2002[A,I]: 

40,000.

Program: Migrant and Seasonal Farmworkers (Labor); Fiscal year 1999: 

42,200; Fiscal year 2002[A,I]: 36,700.

Program: Refugee and Entrant Assistance--Targeted Assistance; Fiscal 

year 1999: 46,600; Fiscal year 2002[A,I]: 25,000[H].

Program: H-1B Technical Skills Training; Fiscal year 1999: Not 

included; Fiscal year 2002[A,I]: 24,899.

Program: Refugee Assistance--Voluntary Agency Programs; Fiscal year 

1999: 24,000; Fiscal year 2002[A,I]: 23,400.

Program: Native American Employment and Training Programs; Fiscal year 

1999: 19,367; Fiscal year 2002[A,I]: 18,590[J].

Program: Grants to States for Incarcerated Youth Offenders; Fiscal year 

1999: 3,000; Fiscal year 2002[A,I]: 14,390[J].

Program: Homeless Veterans Reintegration Project; Fiscal year 1999: 

4,136; Fiscal year 2002[A,I]: 12,142.

Program: Projects with Industry; Fiscal year 1999: 13,945; Fiscal year 

2002[A,I]: 12,000.

Program: The State Supported Employment Services Program; Fiscal year 

1999: 37,008; Fiscal year 2002[A,I]: 10,254[F,H].

Program: Tribal Work Grants; Fiscal year 1999: 21,761; Fiscal year 

2002[A,I]: 10,000[J,K].

Program: Migrant and Seasonal Farmworkers Program (Education); Fiscal 

year 1999: Not included; Fiscal year 2002[A,I]: 9,500[H].

Program: Migrant Education--High School Equivalency Program; Fiscal 

year 1999: 1,600; Fiscal year 2002[A,I]: 7,000.

Program: Youth Challenge Program; Fiscal year 1999: Not included; 

Fiscal year 2002[A,I]: 6,500.

Program: Responsible Reintegration of Youth Offenders; Fiscal year 

1999: Not included; Fiscal year 2002[A,I]: 5,000[I].

Program: Veterans Workforce Investment Program; Fiscal year 1999: 

3,615; Fiscal year 2002[A,I]: 4,600 [H].

Program: American Indian Vocational Rehabilitation Service Program; 

Fiscal year 1999: 3,200; Fiscal year 2002[A,I]: 4,473[J].

Program: Opportunities for Youth--Youthbuild Program; Fiscal year 1999: 

2,767; Fiscal year 2002[A,I]: 3,729.

Program: Indian Employment Assistance; Fiscal year 1999: 3,200; Fiscal 

year 2002[A,I]: 3,724[G].

Program: Native American Vocational and Technical Education Program; 

Fiscal year 1999: 1,788; Fiscal year 2002[A,I]: 2,920 [H].

Program: Native Hawaiian Vocational Education; Fiscal year 1999: 318; 

Fiscal year 2002[A,I]: 1,024.

Program: Tribally Controlled Postsecondary Vocational and Technical 

Institutions; Fiscal year 1999: 500; Fiscal year 2002[A,I]: 780.

Program: Indian Vocational Training--United Tribes Technical College; 

Fiscal year 1999: 559; Fiscal year 2002[A,I]: 734.

Program: Indian Job Placement--United Sioux Tribes Development 

Corporation; Fiscal year 1999: 3,683; Fiscal year 2002[A,I]: 113.

Program: Tech Prep Education Program; Fiscal year 1999: Not included; 

Fiscal year 2002[A,I]: [D].

Program: Serious and Violent Offenders Program; Fiscal year 1999: Not 

included; Fiscal year 2002[A,I]: [D].

Program: Community Services Block Grant; Fiscal year 1999: [D]; Fiscal 

year 2002[A,I]: [D].

Source: FY 2002 figures provided by agency officials; FY 1999 figures 

obtained from GAO-01-71.

[A] FY 2002 unless otherwise noted.

[B] This number includes only individuals participating in 

postsecondary vocational and technical educational institutions.

[C] This number includes the 37,008 individuals participating in the 

State Supported Employment Services Program.

[D] Program officials were unable to provide an estimate of the number 

of individuals who received employment and traning services.

[E] This estimate includes both the Community Economic Development 

Program and the Rural Facilities Program, whereas the FY 1999 estimate 

did not.

[F] This figure may undercount participants, as it represents only 

those participants who have actually obtained employment.

[G] Tribes participating in P.L. 102-477 using Employment Assistance 

funds are not included in this figure.

[H] This estimate represents a period prior to FY 2001.

[I] Most programs reported participants served for FY 2002, with the 

exception of certain Labor programs that collect data by program year 

rather than fiscal year. Other exceptions are noted.

[J] This estimate represents participants served in FY 2001.

[K] This estimate was derived by adding the number of participants in 

separate Tribal Work Grants programs and an estimate of the number 

served with Tribal Work Grants funds in P.L. 102-477 projects.

[End of table]

[End of section]

Appendix V: Programs Requiring Beneficiaries to be Economically 

Disadvantaged in Fiscal Year 1999 or 2002:

Table 4: 

Program name: Department of Labor: Homeless Veterans Reintegration 

Project; Programs requiring beneficiaries to be economically 

disadvantaged: Fiscal year 1999: Department of Labor: Yes; Programs 

requiring beneficiaries to be economically disadvantaged: Fiscal year 

2002: Department of Labor: Yes.

Program name: Department of Labor: Job Corps; Programs requiring 

beneficiaries to be economically disadvantaged: Fiscal year 1999: 

Department of Labor: Yes; Programs requiring beneficiaries to be 

economically disadvantaged: Fiscal year 2002: Department of Labor: Yes.

Program name: Department of Labor: JTPA Adult Training (Title II-A); 

Programs requiring beneficiaries to be economically disadvantaged: 

Fiscal year 1999: Department of Labor: Yes; Programs requiring 

beneficiaries to be economically disadvantaged: Fiscal year 2002: 

Department of Labor: Discontinued program.

Program name: Department of Labor: JTPA Summer Youth E&T (Title II-B); 

Programs requiring beneficiaries to be economically disadvantaged: 

Fiscal year 1999: Department of Labor: Yes; Programs requiring 

beneficiaries to be economically disadvantaged: Fiscal year 2002: 

Department of Labor: Discontinued program.

Program name: Department of Labor: JTPA Youth Training (Title II-C); 

Programs requiring beneficiaries to be economically disadvantaged: 

Fiscal year 1999: Department of Labor: Yes; Programs requiring 

beneficiaries to be economically disadvantaged: Fiscal year 2002: 

Department of Labor: Discontinued program.

Program name: Department of Labor: Migrant and Seasonal Farm Workers; 

Programs requiring beneficiaries to be economically disadvantaged: 

Fiscal year 1999: Department of Labor: Yes; Programs requiring 

beneficiaries to be economically disadvantaged: Fiscal year 2002: 

Department of Labor: Yes.

Program name: Department of Labor: Senior Community Services Employment 

Program; Programs requiring beneficiaries to be economically 

disadvantaged: Fiscal year 1999: Department of Labor: Yes; Programs 

requiring beneficiaries to be economically disadvantaged: Fiscal year 

2002: Department of Labor: Yes.

Program name: Department of Labor: Welfare-to-Work Grants to Federally 

Recognized Tribes and Alaska Natives; Programs requiring beneficiaries 

to be economically disadvantaged: Fiscal year 1999: Department of 

Labor: Yes; Programs requiring beneficiaries to be economically 

disadvantaged: Fiscal year 2002: Department of Labor: Discontinued 

program.

Program name: Department of Labor: Welfare-to-Work Grants to States and 

Localities; Programs requiring beneficiaries to be economically 

disadvantaged: Fiscal year 1999: Department of Labor: Yes; Programs 

requiring beneficiaries to be economically disadvantaged: Fiscal year 

2002: Department of Labor: Discontinued program.

Program name: Department of Labor: WIA Youth; Programs requiring 

beneficiaries to be economically disadvantaged: Fiscal year 1999: 

Department of Labor: Not yet implemented; Programs requiring 

beneficiaries to be economically disadvantaged: Fiscal year 2002: 

Department of Labor: Yes.

Program name: Department of Labor: Migrant Education--High School 

Equivalency; Programs requiring beneficiaries to be economically 

disadvantaged: Fiscal year 1999: Department of Labor: Yes; Programs 

requiring beneficiaries to be economically disadvantaged: Fiscal year 

2002: Department of Labor: [Empty].

Program name: Department of Labor: Vocational Education--Basic Grants 

to States; Programs requiring beneficiaries to be economically 

disadvantaged: Fiscal year 1999: Department of Labor: Did not require; 

Programs requiring beneficiaries to be economically disadvantaged: 

Fiscal year 2002: Department of Labor: Yes.

Program name: Department of Labor: Tech Prep Education Program; 

Programs requiring beneficiaries to be economically disadvantaged: 

Fiscal year 1999: Department of Labor: Not included in 1999 review; 

Programs requiring beneficiaries to be economically disadvantaged: 

Fiscal year 2002: Department of Labor: Yes.

Program name: Department of Labor: Tribally Controlled Postsecondary 

and Technical Institutions; Programs requiring beneficiaries to be 

economically disadvantaged: Fiscal year 1999: Department of Labor: Did 

not require; Programs requiring beneficiaries to be economically 

disadvantaged: Fiscal year 2002: Department of Labor: Yes.

Program name: Department of Labor: Grants to States for Incarcerated 

Youth Offenders; Programs requiring beneficiaries to be economically 

disadvantaged: Fiscal year 1999: Department of Labor: Did not require; 

Programs requiring beneficiaries to be economically disadvantaged: 

Fiscal year 2002: Department of Labor: Yes.

Program name: Department of Labor: Temporary Assistance for Needy 

Families (TANF); Programs requiring beneficiaries to be economically 

disadvantaged: Fiscal year 1999: Department of Labor: Yes; Programs 

requiring beneficiaries to be economically disadvantaged: Fiscal year 

2002: Department of Labor: Yes.

Program name: Department of Labor: Refugee Assistance--Voluntary Agency 

Programs; Programs requiring beneficiaries to be economically 

disadvantaged: Fiscal year 1999: Department of Labor: Yes; Programs 

requiring beneficiaries to be economically disadvantaged: Fiscal year 

2002: Department of Labor: Yes.

Program name: Department of Labor: Community Services Block Grant; 

Programs requiring beneficiaries to be economically disadvantaged: 

Fiscal year 1999: Department of Labor: Yes; Programs requiring 

beneficiaries to be economically disadvantaged: Fiscal year 2002: 

Department of Labor: Yes.

Program name: Department of Labor: Community Services Block Grant--

Discretionary Awards; Programs requiring beneficiaries to be 

economically disadvantaged: Fiscal year 1999: Department of Labor: Did 

not require; Programs requiring beneficiaries to be economically 

disadvantaged: Fiscal year 2002: Department of Labor: Yes.

Program name: Department of Labor: Food Stamp Employment and Training 

Program; Programs requiring beneficiaries to be economically 

disadvantaged: Fiscal year 1999: Department of Labor: Yes; Programs 

requiring beneficiaries to be economically disadvantaged: Fiscal year 

2002: Department of Labor: Yes.

Program name: Department of Labor: Indian Vocational Training--United 

Tribes Technical College; Programs requiring beneficiaries to be 

economically disadvantaged: Fiscal year 1999: Department of Labor: Did 

not require; Programs requiring beneficiaries to be economically 

disadvantaged: Fiscal year 2002: Department of Labor: Yes.

Program name: Department of Labor: Indian Job Placement--United Sioux 

Tribes Development Corporation; Programs requiring beneficiaries to be 

economically disadvantaged: Fiscal year 1999: Department of Labor: Did 

not require; Programs requiring beneficiaries to be economically 

disadvantaged: Fiscal year 2002: Department of Labor: Yes.

Program name: Department of Labor: Opportunities for Youth--Youthbuild; 

Programs requiring beneficiaries to be economically disadvantaged: 

Fiscal year 1999: Department of Labor: Yes; Programs requiring 

beneficiaries to be economically disadvantaged: Fiscal year 2002: 

Department of Labor: Yes.

[End of table]

Source: GAO analysis.

[End of section]

Appendix VI: Outcome Measures:

While some employment and training programs have been monitoring 

outcomes over a period of time, the Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) has recently issued a proposal that would require many federally 

funded employment and training programs to track four common outcome 

measures each for youth or adult programs in fiscal year 2004. Table 1 

outlines OMBs proposed measures.

Table 5: OMBs Common Measures for Employment and Training Programs:

Youth programs: * Placement in employment, education, or the military; 

* Attainment of a degree or certificate; * Literacy and numeracy gains; 

* Efficiency (annual appropriation per participant); Adult programs: * 

Entered employment; * Retention in employment; * Earnings Increase; * 

Efficiency.

[End of table]

Source: Information provided by agency officials.

:

Federal agencies provided information on selected outcomes that they 

currently track for each of their programs. Table 2 lists information 

on which programs are currently tracking performance measures similar 

to those proposed by OMB. Our questionnaire did not collect information 

on an efficiency measure.

Table 2 also identifies the programs that will be reviewed using the 

Program Assessment Rating Tool (PART) during the fiscal year 2004 

budget cycle. PART is a new evaluation instrument that links a 

programs performance to its budget. The administration plans to review 

approximately one-fifth of all federal programs every year, to ensure 

that every program will have been evaluated using PART by the time of 

the 2008 budget submission.

Table 6: Programs Outcome Tracking Requirements Under OMBs Common 

Measures Initiative and Outcome Measures Tracked by the Programs in 

Fiscal Year 2003:

Employment and training programs[A]: Labor.

Employment and training programs[A]: Disabled Veterans Outreach 

Program; OMBs Common Measures Initiative?: Labor: Yes; Measures 

tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: Entered employ-ment: Labor: 
Yes; 

Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: Employ-ment Retention: 

Labor: Yes; Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: Wage gain/

change: Labor: [Empty]; Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 

2003: Educational/credential attainment: Labor: [Empty]; Measures 

tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: Other positive outcomes[B]: 

Labor: [Empty]; Programs Identified Under PART: Labor: [Empty].

Employment and training programs[A]: Employment Service; OMBs Common 

Measures Initiative?: Labor: Yes; Measures tracked by program in fiscal 

year 2003: Entered employ-ment: Labor: Yes; Measures tracked by program 

in fiscal year 2003: Employ-ment Retention: Labor: Yes; Measures 
tracked 

by program in fiscal year 2003: Wage gain/change: Labor: [Empty]; 

Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: Educational/credential 

attainment: Labor: [Empty]; Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 

2003: Other positive outcomes[B]: Labor: [Empty]; Programs Identified 

Under PART: Labor: [Empty].

Employment and training programs[A]: Homeless Veterans Reintegration 

Program; OMBs Common Measures Initiative?: Labor: Yes; Measures 

tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: Entered employ-ment: Labor: 
Yes; 

Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: Employ-ment Retention: 

Labor: Yes; Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: Wage gain/

change: Labor: [Empty]; Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 

2003: Educational/credential attainment: Labor: [Empty]; Measures 

tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: Other positive outcomes[B]: 

Labor: [Empty]; Programs Identified Under PART: Labor: [Empty].

Employment and training programs[A]: H-1B Technical Skills Training; 

OMBs Common Measures Initiative?: Labor: Yes; Measures tracked by 

program in fiscal year 2003: Entered employ-ment: Labor: Yes; Measures 

tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: Employ-ment Retention: Labor: 

Yes; Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: Wage gain/change: 

Labor: Yes; Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: 
Educational/

credential attainment: Labor: Yes; Measures tracked by program in 
fiscal 

year 2003: Other positive outcomes[B]: Labor: [Empty]; Programs 

Identified Under PART: Labor: [Empty].

Employment and training programs[A]: Job Corps; OMBs Common Measures 

Initiative?: Labor: Yes; Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 

2003: Entered employ-ment: Labor: Yes; Measures tracked by program in 

fiscal year 2003: Employ-ment Retention: Labor: Yes; Measures tracked 
by 

program in fiscal year 2003: Wage gain/change: Labor: Yes; Measures 

tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: Educational/credential 

attainment: Labor: Yes; Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 
2003: 

Other positive outcomes[B]: Labor: Yes; Programs Identified Under 
PART: 

Labor: [Empty].

Employment and training programs[A]: Local Veterans Employment 

Representative Program; OMBs Common Measures Initiative?: Labor: Yes; 

Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: Entered employ-ment: 

Labor: Yes; Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: Employ-
ment 

Retention: Labor: Yes; Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: 

Wage gain/change: Labor: [Empty]; Measures tracked by program in fiscal 

year 2003: Educational/credential attainment: Labor: [Empty]; Measures 

tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: Other positive outcomes[B]: 

Labor: [Empty]; Programs Identified Under PART: Labor: [Empty].

Employment and training programs[A]: Migrant and Seasonal Farm Workers; 

OMBs Common Measures Initiative?: Labor: Yes[C]; Measures tracked by 

program in fiscal year 2003: Entered employ-ment: Labor: Yes; Measures 

tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: Employ-ment Retention: Labor: 

Yes; Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: Wage gain/change: 

Labor: Yes; Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: 
Educational/

credential attainment: Labor: [Empty]; Measures tracked by program in 

fiscal year 2003: Other positive outcomes[B]: Labor: [Empty]; 

Programs Identified Under PART: Labor: [Empty].

Employment and training programs[A]: Native American Employment and 

Training Programs; OMBs Common Measures Initiative?: Labor: Yes; 

Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: Entered employ-ment: 

Labor: Yes; Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: Employ-
ment 

Retention: Labor: [Empty]; Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 

2003: Wage gain/change: Labor: Yes; Measures tracked by program in 
fiscal 

year 2003: Educational/credential attainment: Labor: Yes; Measures 

tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: Other positive outcomes[B]: 

Labor: Yes; Programs Identified Under PART: Labor: [Empty].

Employment and training programs[A]: Registered Apprenticeship 

Training; OMBs Common Measures Initiative?: Labor: No; Measures 

tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: Entered employ-ment: Labor: 
Yes; 

Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: Employ-ment Retention: 

Labor: Yes; Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: Wage gain/

change: Labor: Yes; Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: 

Educational/credential attainment: Labor: Yes; Measures tracked by 

program in fiscal year 2003: Other positive outcomes[B]: Labor: 

[Empty]; Programs Identified Under PART: Labor: [Empty].

Employment and training programs[A]: Responsible Reintegration of Youth 

Offenders; OMBs Common Measures Initiative?: Labor: Yes; Measures 

tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: Entered employ-ment: Labor: 
Yes; 

Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: Employ-ment Retention: 

Labor: Yes; Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: Wage gain/

change: Labor: [Empty]; Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 

2003: Educational/credential attainment: Labor: Yes; Measures tracked 
by 

program in fiscal year 2003: Other positive outcomes[B]: Labor: Yes; 

Programs Identified Under PART: Labor: [Empty].

Employment and training programs[A]: Senior Community Service 

Employment Program; OMBs Common Measures Initiative?: Labor: Yes; 

Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: Entered employ-ment: 

Labor: Yes; Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: Employ-
ment 

Retention: Labor: Yes; Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: 

Wage gain/change: Labor: Yes; Measures tracked by program in fiscal 
year 

2003: Educational/credential attainment: Labor: [Empty]; Measures 

tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: Other positive outcomes[B]: 

Labor: [Empty]; Programs Identified Under PART: Labor: [Empty].

Employment and training programs[A]: Trade Adjustment Assistance and 

NAFTA--Transitional Adjustment Assistance; OMBs Common Measures 

Initiative?: Labor: Yes; Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 

2003: Entered employ-ment: Labor: Yes; Measures tracked by program in 

fiscal year 2003: Employ-ment Retention: Labor: Yes; Measures tracked 
by 

program in fiscal year 2003: Wage gain/change: Labor: Yes; Measures 

tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: Educational/credential 

attainment: Labor: [Empty]; Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 

2003: Other positive outcomes[B]: Labor: [Empty]; Programs Identified 

Under PART: Labor: Yes.

Employment and training programs[A]: Veterans Workforce Investment 

Program; OMBs Common Measures Initiative?: Labor: Yes; Measures 

tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: Entered employ-ment: Labor: 
Yes; 

Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: Employ-ment Retention: 

Labor: Yes; Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: Wage gain/

change: Labor: [Empty]; Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 

2003: Educational/credential attainment: Labor: [Empty]; Measures 

tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: Other positive outcomes[B]: 

Labor: [Empty]; Programs Identified Under PART: Labor: [Empty].

Employment and training programs[A]: WIA Adults; OMBs Common Measures 

Initiative?: Labor: Yes; Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 

2003: Entered employ-ment: Labor: Yes; Measures tracked by program in 

fiscal year 2003: Employ-ment Retention: Labor: Yes; Measures tracked 
by 

program in fiscal year 2003: Wage gain/change: Labor: Yes; Measures 

tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: Educational/credential 

attainment: Labor: Yes; Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 
2003: 

Other positive outcomes[B]: Labor: [Empty]; Programs Identified Under 

PART: Labor: [Empty].

Employment and training programs[A]: WIA Dislocated Workers; OMBs 

Common Measures Initiative?: Labor: Yes; Measures tracked by program in 

fiscal year 2003: Entered employ-ment: Labor: Yes; Measures tracked by 

program in fiscal year 2003: Employ-ment Retention: Labor: Yes; 
Measures 

tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: Wage gain/change: Labor: Yes; 

Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: Educational/credential 

attainment: Labor: Yes; Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 
2003: 

Other positive outcomes[B]: Labor: [Empty]; Programs Identified Under 

PART: Labor: Yes.

Employment and training programs[A]: WIA Youth; OMBs Common Measures 

Initiative?: Labor: Yes; Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 

2003: Entered employ-ment: Labor: Yes; Measures tracked by program in 

fiscal year 2003: Employ-ment Retention: Labor: Yes; Measures tracked 
by 

program in fiscal year 2003: Wage gain/change: Labor: Yes; Measures 

tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: Educational/credential 

attainment: Labor: Yes; Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 
2003: 

Other positive outcomes[B]: Labor: Yes; Programs Identified Under 
PART: 

Labor: Yes.

Employment and training programs[A]: Youth Opportunity Grants; OMBs 

Common Measures Initiative?: Labor: Yes; Measures tracked by program in 

fiscal year 2003: Entered employ-ment: Labor: Yes; Measures tracked by 

program in fiscal year 2003: Employ-ment Retention: Labor: Yes; 
Measures 

tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: Wage gain/change: Labor: Yes; 

Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: Educational/credential 

attainment: Labor: Yes; Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 
2003: 

Other positive outcomes[B]: Labor: Yes; Programs Identified Under 
PART: 

Labor: [Empty].

Employment and training programs[A]: Education.

Employment and training programs[A]: Adult Education - State Grant 

Program; OMBs Common Measures Initiative?: Labor: No; Measures tracked 

by program in fiscal year 2003: Entered employ-ment: Labor: Yes; 
Measures 

tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: Employ-ment Retention: Labor: 

Yes; Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: Wage gain/change: 

Labor: [Empty]; Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: 

Educational/credential attainment: Labor: Yes; Measures tracked by 

program in fiscal year 2003: Other positive outcomes[B]: Labor: Yes; 

Programs Identified Under PART: Labor: Yes.

Employment and training programs[A]: American Indian Vocational 

Rehabilitation Services; OMBs Common Measures Initiative?: Labor: Yes; 

Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: Entered employ-ment: 

Labor: Yes; Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: Employ-
ment 

Retention: Labor: [Empty]; Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 

2003: Wage gain/change: Labor: Yes; Measures tracked by program in 
fiscal 

year 2003: Educational/credential attainment: Labor: [Empty]; Measures 

tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: Other positive outcomes[B]: 

Labor: [Empty]; Programs Identified Under PART: Labor: [Empty].

Employment and training programs[A]: Grants to States for Incarcerated 

Youth Offenders; OMBs Common Measures Initiative?: Labor: Yes; 

Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: Entered employ-ment: 

Labor: [Empty]; Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: 

Employ-ment Retention: Labor: [Empty]; Measures tracked by program in 

fiscal year 2003: Wage gain/change: Labor: [Empty]; Measures tracked by 

program in fiscal year 2003: Educational/credential attainment: Labor: 

[Empty]; Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: Other 

positive outcomes[B]: Labor: [Empty]; Programs Identified Under PART: 

Labor: Yes.

Employment and training programs[A]: Migrant and Seasonal Farmworkers 

Program; OMBs Common Measures Initiative?: Labor: Yes; Measures 

tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: Entered employ-ment: Labor: 
Yes; 

Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: Employ-ment Retention: 

Labor: Yes; Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: Wage gain/

change: Labor: [Empty]; Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 

2003: Educational/credential attainment: Labor: [Empty]; Measures 

tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: Other positive outcomes[B]: 

Labor: [Empty]; Programs Identified Under PART: Labor: [Empty].

Employment and training programs[A]: Migrant Education - High School 

Equivalency Program; OMBs Common Measures Initiative?: Labor: No; 

Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: Entered employ-ment: 

Labor: Yes; Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: Employ-
ment 

Retention: Labor: [Empty]; Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 

2003: Wage gain/change: Labor: [Empty]; Measures tracked by program in 

fiscal year 2003: Educational/credential attainment: Labor: Yes; 
Measures 

tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: Other positive outcomes[B]: 

Labor: Yes; Programs Identified Under PART: Labor: [Empty].

Employment and training programs[A]: Native American Vocational and 

Technical Education Program; OMBs Common Measures Initiative?: Labor: 

No; Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: Entered employ-

ment: Labor: Yes; Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: 

Employ-ment Retention: Labor: [Empty]; Measures tracked by program in 

fiscal year 2003: Wage gain/change: Labor: [Empty]; Measures tracked by 

program in fiscal year 2003: Educational/credential attainment: Labor: 

Yes; Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: Other positive 

outcomes[B]: Labor: Yes; Programs Identified Under PART: Labor: 
[Empty].

Employment and training programs[A]: Native Hawaiian Vocational 

Education; OMBs Common Measures Initiative?: Labor: No; Measures 

tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: Entered employ-ment: Labor: 
Yes; 

Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: Employ-ment Retention: 

Labor: [Empty]; Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: Wage 

gain/change: Labor: [Empty]; Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 

2003: Educational/credential attainment: Labor: Yes; Measures tracked 
by 

program in fiscal year 2003: Other positive outcomes[B]: Labor: Yes; 

Programs Identified Under PART: Labor: [Empty].

Employment and training programs[A]: Projects with Industry; OMBs 

Common Measures Initiative?: Labor: Yes; Measures tracked by program in 

fiscal year 2003: Entered employ-ment: Labor: Yes; Measures tracked by 

program in fiscal year 2003: Employ-ment Retention: Labor: Yes; 
Measures 

tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: Wage gain/change: Labor: Yes; 

Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: Educational/credential 

attainment: Labor: [Empty]; Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 

2003: Other positive outcomes[B]: Labor: [Empty]; Programs Identified 

Under PART: Labor: [Empty].

Employment and training programs[A]: State Supported Employment 

Services Program; OMBs Common Measures Initiative?: Labor: Yes; 

Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: Entered employ-ment: 

Labor: Yes; Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: Employ-
ment 

Retention: Labor: Yes; Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: 

Wage gain/change: Labor: Yes; Measures tracked by program in fiscal 
year 

2003: Educational/credential attainment: Labor: [Empty]; Measures 

tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: Other positive outcomes[B]: 

Labor: [Empty]; Programs Identified Under PART: Labor: [Empty].

Employment and training programs[A]: State Vocational Rehabilitation 

Services; OMBs Common Measures Initiative?: Labor: Yes; Measures 

tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: Entered employ-ment: Labor: 
Yes; 

Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: Employ-ment Retention: 

Labor: [Empty]; Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: Wage 

gain/change: Labor: Yes; Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 
2003: 

Educational/credential attainment: Labor: [Empty]; Measures tracked by 

program in fiscal year 2003: Other positive outcomes[B]: Labor: 

[Empty]; Programs Identified Under PART: Labor: Yes.

Employment and training programs[A]: Tech Prep Education Program; OMBs 

Common Measures Initiative?: Labor: Yes; Measures tracked by program in 

fiscal year 2003: Entered employ-ment: Labor: Yes; Measures tracked by 

program in fiscal year 2003: Employ-ment Retention: Labor: Yes; 
Measures 

tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: Wage gain/change: Labor: 

[Empty]; Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: Educational/

credential attainment: Labor: Yes; Measures tracked by program in 
fiscal 

year 2003: Other positive outcomes[B]: Labor: Yes; Programs 
Identified 

Under PART: Labor: Yes.

Employment and training programs[A]: Tribally Controlled Post-

Secondary Vocational and Technical Institutions; OMBs Common Measures 

Initiative?: Labor: Yes; Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 

2003: Entered employ-ment: Labor: [Empty]; Measures tracked by program 

in fiscal year 2003: Employ-ment Retention: Labor: [Empty]; Measures 

tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: Wage gain/change: Labor: 

[Empty]; Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: Educational/

credential attainment: Labor: Yes; Measures tracked by program in 
fiscal 

year 2003: Other positive outcomes[B]: Labor: [Empty]; Programs 

Identified Under PART: Labor: Yes.

Employment and training programs[A]: Vocational Education--Basic 

Grants to States; OMBs Common Measures Initiative?: Labor: Yes; 

Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: Entered employ-ment: 

Labor: Yes; Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: Employ-
ment 

Retention: Labor: Yes; Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: 

Wage gain/change: Labor: [Empty]; Measures tracked by program in fiscal 

year 2003: Educational/credential attainment: Labor: Yes; Measures 

tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: Other positive outcomes[B]: 

Labor: Yes; Programs Identified Under PART: Labor: Yes.

Employment and training programs[A]: Health and Human Services.

Employment and training programs[A]: Community Services Block Grant; 

OMBs Common Measures Initiative?: Labor: No; Measures tracked by 

program in fiscal year 2003: Entered employ-ment: Labor: Yes; Measures 

tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: Employ-ment Retention: Labor: 

Yes; Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: Wage gain/change: 

Labor: Yes; Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: 
Educational/

credential attainment: Labor: Yes; Measures tracked by program in 
fiscal 

year 2003: Other positive outcomes[B]: Labor: Yes; Programs 
Identified 

Under PART: Labor: [Empty].

Employment and training programs[A]: Community Services Block Grant - 

Discretionary Awards; OMBs Common Measures Initiative?: Labor: No; 

Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: Entered employ-ment: 

Labor: [Empty]; Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: 

Employ-ment Retention: Labor: [Empty]; Measures tracked by program in 

fiscal year 2003: Wage gain/change: Labor: [Empty]; Measures tracked by 

program in fiscal year 2003: Educational/credential attainment: Labor: 

[Empty]; Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: Other 

positive outcomes[B]: Labor: [Empty]; Programs Identified Under PART: 

Labor: [Empty].

Employment and training programs[A]: Refugee Assistance - Voluntary 

Agency Programs; OMBs Common Measures Initiative?: Labor: No; Measures 

tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: Entered employ-ment: Labor: 
Yes; 

Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: Employ-ment Retention: 

Labor: Yes; Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: Wage gain/

change: Labor: Yes; Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: 

Educational/credential attainment: Labor: [Empty]; Measures tracked by 

program in fiscal year 2003: Other positive outcomes[B]: Labor: 

[Empty]; Programs Identified Under PART: Labor: [Empty].

Employment and training programs[A]: Refugee and Entrant Assistance - 

Targeted Assistance; OMBs Common Measures Initiative?: Labor: No; 

Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: Entered employ-ment: 

Labor: Yes; Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: Employ-
ment 

Retention: Labor: Yes; Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: 

Wage gain/change: Labor: Yes; Measures tracked by program in fiscal 
year 

2003: Educational/credential attainment: Labor: [Empty]; Measures 

tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: Other positive outcomes[B]: 

Labor: [Empty]; Programs Identified Under PART: Labor: Yes.

Employment and training programs[A]: Temporary Assistance for Needy 

Families; OMBs Common Measures Initiative?: Labor: Yes; Measures 

tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: Entered employ-ment: Labor: 
Yes; 

Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: Employ-ment Retention: 

Labor: Yes; Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: Wage gain/

change: Labor: Yes; Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: 

Educational/credential attainment: Labor: [Empty]; Measures tracked by 

program in fiscal year 2003: Other positive outcomes[B]: Labor: 

[Empty]; Programs Identified Under PART: Labor: [Empty].

Employment and training programs[A]: Tribal Work Grants; OMBs Common 

Measures Initiative?: Labor: No; Measures tracked by program in fiscal 

year 2003: Entered employ-ment: Labor: Yes; Measures tracked by program 

in fiscal year 2003: Employ-ment Retention: Labor: Yes; Measures 
tracked 

by program in fiscal year 2003: Wage gain/change: Labor: Yes; Measures 

tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: Educational/credential 

attainment: Labor: Yes; Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 
2003: 

Other positive outcomes[B]: Labor: Yes; Programs Identified Under 
PART: 

Labor: [Empty].

Employment and training programs[A]: Bureau of Indian Affairs.

Employment and training programs[A]: Indian Employment Assistance; 

OMBs Common Measures Initiative?: Labor: No[D]; Measures tracked by 

program in fiscal year 2003: Entered employ-ment: Labor: Yes; Measures 

tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: Employ-ment Retention: Labor: 

Yes; Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: Wage gain/change: 

Labor: [Empty]; Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: 

Educational/credential attainment: Labor: Yes; Measures tracked by 

program in fiscal year 2003: Other positive outcomes[B]: Labor: Yes; 

Programs Identified Under PART: Labor: [Empty].

Employment and training programs[A]: Indian Job Placement--United Sioux 

Tribes Development Corporation; OMBs Common Measures Initiative?: 

Labor: Yes; Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: Entered 

employ-ment: Labor: Yes; Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 
2003: 

Employ-ment Retention: Labor: Yes; Measures tracked by program in 
fiscal 

year 2003: Wage gain/change: Labor: Yes; Measures tracked by program in 

fiscal year 2003: Educational/credential attainment: Labor: Yes; 
Measures 

tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: Other positive outcomes[B]: 

Labor: Yes; Programs Identified Under PART: Labor: [Empty].

Employment and training programs[A]: Indian Vocational Training--

United Tribes Technical College; OMBs Common Measures Initiative?: 

Labor: Yes; Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: Entered 

employ-ment: Labor: Yes; Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 
2003: 

Employ-ment Retention: Labor: Yes; Measures tracked by program in 
fiscal 

year 2003: Wage gain/change: Labor: Yes; Measures tracked by program in 

fiscal year 2003: Educational/credential attainment: Labor: Yes; 
Measures 

tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: Other positive outcomes[B]: 

Labor: Yes; Programs Identified Under PART: Labor: [Empty].

Employment and training programs[A]: Agriculture.

Employment and training programs[A]: Food Stamp Employment and Training 

Program; OMBs Common Measures Initiative?: Labor: No; Measures tracked 

by program in fiscal year 2003: Entered employ-ment: Labor: [Empty]; 

Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: Employ-ment Retention: 

Labor: [Empty]; Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: Wage 

gain/change: Labor: [Empty]; Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 

2003: Educational/credential attainment: Labor: [Empty]; Measures 

tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: Other positive outcomes[B]: 

Labor: [Empty]; Programs Identified Under PART: Labor: [Empty].

Employment and training programs[A]: Defense; OMBs Common Measures 

Initiative?: Labor: [Empty]; Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 

2003: Entered employ-ment: Labor: [Empty]; Measures tracked by program 

in fiscal year 2003: Employ-ment Retention: Labor: [Empty]; Measures 

tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: Wage gain/change: Labor: 

[Empty]; Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: Educational/

credential attainment: Labor: [Empty]; Measures tracked by program in 

fiscal year 2003: Other positive outcomes[B]: Labor: [Empty]; 

Programs Identified Under PART: Labor: [Empty].

Employment and training programs[A]: Youth Challenge Program; OMBs 

Common Measures Initiative?: Labor: No; Measures tracked by program in 

fiscal year 2003: Entered employ-ment: Labor: Yes; Measures tracked by 

program in fiscal year 2003: Employ-ment Retention: Labor: [Empty]; 

Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: Wage gain/change: 

Labor: [Empty]; Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: 

Educational/credential attainment: Labor: Yes; Measures tracked by 

program in fiscal year 2003: Other positive outcomes[B]: Labor: Yes; 

Programs Identified Under PART: Labor: [Empty].

Employment and training programs[A]: Housing and Urban Development; 

OMBs Common Measures Initiative?: Labor: [Empty]; Measures tracked by 

program in fiscal year 2003: Entered employ-ment: Labor: [Empty]; 

Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: Employ-ment Retention: 

Labor: [Empty]; Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: Wage 

gain/change: Labor: [Empty]; Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 

2003: Educational/credential attainment: Labor: [Empty]; Measures 

tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: Other positive outcomes[B]: 

Labor: [Empty]; Programs Identified Under PART: Labor: [Empty].

Employment and training programs[A]: Opportunities for Youth--

Youthbuild Program; OMBs Common Measures Initiative?: Labor: Yes; 

Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: Entered employ-ment: 

Labor: Yes; Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: Employ-
ment 

Retention: Labor: [Empty]; Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 

2003: Wage gain/change: Labor: Yes; Measures tracked by program in 
fiscal 

year 2003: Educational/credential attainment: Labor: Yes; Measures 

tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: Other positive outcomes[B]: 

Labor: Yes; Programs Identified Under PART: Labor: [Empty].

Employment and training programs[A]: Justice; OMBs Common Measures 

Initiative?: Labor: [Empty]; Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 

2003: Entered employ-ment: Labor: [Empty]; Measures tracked by program 

in fiscal year 2003: Employ-ment Retention: Labor: [Empty]; Measures 

tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: Wage gain/change: Labor: 

[Empty]; Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: Educational/

credential attainment: Labor: [Empty]; Measures tracked by program in 

fiscal year 2003: Other positive outcomes[B]: Labor: [Empty]; 

Programs Identified Under PART: Labor: [Empty].

Employment and training programs[A]: Serious and Violent Offenders 

Program; OMBs Common Measures Initiative?: Labor: No; Measures tracked 

by program in fiscal year 2003: Entered employ-ment: Labor: [Empty]; 

Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: Employ-ment Retention: 

Labor: [Empty]; Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: Wage 

gain/change: Labor: [Empty]; Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 

2003: Educational/credential attainment: Labor: [Empty]; Measures 

tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: Other positive outcomes[B]: 

Labor: [Empty]; Programs Identified Under PART: Labor: [Empty].

Employment and training programs[A]: Veterans Affairs; OMBs Common 

Measures Initiative?: Labor: [Empty]; Measures tracked by program in 

fiscal year 2003: Entered employ-ment: Labor: [Empty]; Measures tracked 

by program in fiscal year 2003: Employ-ment Retention: Labor: [Empty]; 

Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: Wage gain/change: 

Labor: [Empty]; Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: 

Educational/credential attainment: Labor: [Empty]; Measures tracked by 

program in fiscal year 2003: Other positive outcomes[B]: Labor: 

[Empty]; Programs Identified Under PART: Labor: [Empty].

Employment and training programs[A]: Vocational Rehabilitation for 

Disabled Veterans; OMBs Common Measures Initiative?: Labor: Yes; 

Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: Entered employ-ment: 

Labor: Yes; Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: Employ-
ment 

Retention: Labor: Yes; Measures tracked by program in fiscal year 2003: 

Wage gain/change: Labor: Yes; Measures tracked by program in fiscal 
year 

2003: Educational/credential attainment: Labor: Yes; Measures tracked 
by 

program in fiscal year 2003: Other positive outcomes[B]: Labor: 

[Empty]; Programs Identified Under PART: Labor: [Empty].

Source: GAO analysis, budget documents and information provided by OMB 

officials.

[A] Program titles in use as of fiscal year 2002.

[B] Other positive outcomes refers to outcomes such as entering the 

military, postsecondary education, or other vocational training 

program.

[C] If the program continues to be funded, they will track outcome 

measures in keeping with OMBs common measures inititive.

[D] According to program officials, in the future this program will 

collect data under OMBs common performance measures.

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Appendix VII: Population Groups Served by Employment and Training 

Programs:

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Appendix VIII: Services Provided by Employment and Training Programs:

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Appendix IX: Program Objectives and Eligibility Criteria for Federally 

Funded Employment and Training Programs:

Table 7: :

Program (department): Dislocated workers.

Program (department): Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) and NAFTA--

Transitional Adjustment Assistance (Labor); Objective: To provide 

retraining, job search, and or, relocation assistance to workers 

adversely affected by increased imports in order to facilitate their 

return to the workforce in suitable employment.; Eligibility criteria: 

A TAA beneficiary must (1) be a member of a worker group that has been 

found by the Labor Department to be adversely affected by increased 

imports, either directly or indirectly, or by a shift of production, 

and therefore certified eligible to apply for Trade Adjustment 

Assistance, and (2) must meet the following individual requirements: 

(a.) his or her total or partial separation must have begun on or after 

the date specified in the certification as the beginning of the adverse 

import impact and (b) his or her total or partial separation must begin 

before the expiration of the two-year period beginning on the date on 

which the Secretary issued the certification or before the termination 

date, if any, specified in the certification.

.

Program (department): WIA Dislocated Workers; Objective: To provide 

workforce investment activities that increase the employment, retention 

and earnings of participants, and increase occupational skill 

attainment by the participants. This aims to reemploy dislocated 

workers, improve the quality of the workforce and enhance the 

productivity of the nations economy. This program is designed to 

increase employment, as measured by entry into unsubsidized employment, 

retention in unsubsidized entered employment six months after entry 

into employment, and extent of recovery of prior wage levels. For 

cross-cutting goals, the program intends to enhance customer 

satisfaction for participants and for employers. The employment goals 

will be measured using Insurance Wage Records Systems and customer 

satisfaction goals measured by sampling.

; Eligibility criteria: Individuals eligible for assistance include 

workers who have lost their jobs as a result of plant closings or mass 

layoffs, and are unlikely to return to their previous industry or 

occupation; formerly self-employed individuals; and displaced 

homemakers who have been dependant on income of another family member, 

but are no longer supported by that income. National Emergency Grant 

Program--Identical eligibility; also include certain military 

personnel individuals and defense employees. Services are targeted on 

individuals affected by mass layoffs, natural disasters, Federal 

government actions, and other circumstances specified by the 

Secretary.

Program (department): Migrant and seasonal farmworkers.

Program (department): Migrant and Seasonal Farmworkers (Education); 

Objective: This discretionary grant program under Section 312 of the 

Rehabilitation Act authorizes projects to provide vocational 

rehabilitation services to migratory agricultural and seasonal 

farmworkers with disabilities, including maintenance and 

transportation for individuals with disabilities and members of their 

families whether or not such family members are disabled.

; Eligibility criteria: Migratory, agricultural and seasonal 

farmworkers with disabilities and their family members.

Program (department): Migrant and Seasonal Farm Workers (Labor); 

Objective: The National Farmworker Jobs Program (NFJP) under section 

167 of the Workforce Investment Act assists migrant and other seasonal 

farmworkers and their family members achieve economic self-sufficiency 

by addressing their employment-related needs. For those aspiring beyond 

farm labor, the National Farmworkers Jobs Program (NFJP) provides basic 

education, job skills training and supportive services to prepare them 

for better paying jobs that offer year-round employment. For those 

preferring to stay in agricultural labor, NFJP provides supportive 

services that enable the farmworkers to continue their participation in 

the agricultural labor market by being available for hire by farmers 

when the farmers need their labor.

; Eligibility criteria: An eligible seasonal Farm worker--is a 

disadvantaged person who for 12 consecutive months out of the 24 months 

prior to application for the program, has been primarily employed in 

agricultural labor that is characterized by chronic unemployment or 

underemployment.

An eligible Migrant farm worker--is a seasonal farmworker whose 

agricultural labor requires travel to a job site such that the 

farmworker is unable to return to a permanent place of residence within 

the same day.

Dependents of eligible seasonal or migrant farm workers are also 

eligible.

Program (department): Native Americans[A]; Objective: [Empty]; 

Eligibility criteria: [Empty]; Eligibility criteria: A TAA beneficiary 

must (1) be a member of a worker group that has been found by the Labor 

Department to be adversely affected by increased imports, either 

directly or indirectly, or by a shift of production, and therefore 

certified eligible to apply for Trade Adjustment Assistance, and (2) 

must meet the following individual requirements: (a.) his or her total 

or partial separation must have begun on or after the date specified in 

the certification as the beginning of the adverse import impact and (b) 

his or her total or partial separation must begin before the expiration 

of the two-year period beginning on the date on which the Secretary 

issued the certification or before the termination date, if any, 

specified in the certification.

: Individuals eligible for assistance include workers who have lost 

their jobs as a result of plant closings or mass layoffs, and are 

unlikely to return to their previous industry or occupation; formerly 

self-employed individuals; and displaced homemakers who have been 

dependant on income of another family member, but are no longer 

supported by that income. National Emergency Grant Program--Identical 

eligibility; also include certain military personnel individuals and 

defense employees. Services are targeted on individuals affected by 

mass layoffs, natural disasters, Federal government actions, and other 

circumstances specified by the Secretary.: Migrant and seasonal 

farmworkers: Migratory, agricultural and seasonal farmworkers with 

disabilities and their family members.: An eligible seasonal Farm 

worker--is a disadvantaged person who for 12 consecutive months out of 

the 24 months prior to application for the program, has been primarily 

employed in agricultural labor that is characterized by chronic 

unemployment or underemployment.

An eligible Migrant farm worker--is a seasonal farmworker whose 

agricultural labor requires travel to a job site such that the 

farmworker is unable to return to a permanent place of residence within 

the same day.

Dependents of eligible seasonal or migrant farm workers are also 

eligible.: [Empty].

Program (department): American Indian Vocational Rehabilitation 

Services (Education); Objective: The American Indian Vocational 

Rehabilitation Services Program provides vocational rehabilitation 

services to American Indians with disabilities who reside on or near 

federal or state reservations, consistent with their individual 

strengths, resources, priorities, concerns, abilities, and 

capabilities, interests and informed choice, so that they may prepare 

for and engage in gainful employment.

; Eligibility criteria: American Indians with disabilities residing on 

or near a federal or state reservation (including Native Alaskans) who 

meet the definition of an individual with a disability or individual 

with a significant disability, respectively, found in sections 7(20)(A) 

and (21)(A) of the Rehabilitation Act.

Program (department): Indian Employment Assistance (Interior); 

Objective: To provide vocational training and employment opportunities 

to eligible American Indians and to reduce Federal dependence.; 

Eligibility criteria: Members of Federally Recognized Indian tribes who 

are unemployed, underemployed, or in need of training to obtain 

reasonable and satisfactory employment. Complete information on 

beneficiary eligibility is found in 25 CFR, Parts 26 and 27.

.

Program (department): Indian Job Placement--United Sioux Tribes 

Development Corporation (Interior); Objective: To provide job 

development, counseling, social adjustment guidance, and referrals to 

job training programs and other assistance programs through the United 

Sioux Tribes Development Corporation, located in Pierre, South Dakota.; 

Eligibility criteria: Must be an American Indian member of Federally 

Recognized Indian tribe and reside on or near an Indian reservation 

under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Indian Affairs or those 

eligibility requirements specified in the contract between the United 

Sioux Tribes Development Corporation and the Bureau of Indian Affairs. 

.

Program (department): Indian Vocational Training--United Tribes 

Technical College (Interior); Objective: To provide vocational training 

to individual American Indians through the United Tribes Technical 

College, located in Bismarck, North Dakota.; Eligibility criteria: 

Individual American Indians who are members of a Federally Recognized 

Indian Tribe and reside on or near an Indian reservation under the 

jurisdiction of the Bureau of Indian Affairs or those eligibility 

requirements specified in the contract between the United States 

Technical College and the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

.

Program (department): Native American Employment and Training Programs 

(Labor); Objective: To support comprehensive employment and training 

activities for Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian individuals; 

to develop more fully their academic, occupational and literacy skills; 

to make them more competitive in the workforce; to promote the economic 

and social development of Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian 

communities according to the goals and values of such communities; to 

help them achieve personal and economic self-sufficiency. The principle 

means for accomplishing these purposes is to enable tribes and Native 

American organizations to provide employment and training services to 

Native American peoples and their communities. Services should be 

provided in a culturally appropriate manner, consistent with the 

principles of Indian self-determination.; Eligibility criteria: A 

person is eligible to receive services under the INA program if that 

person is an Indian, as determined by a policy of the Native American 

grantee. The grantees definition must at least include anyone who is a 

member of a Federally-recognized tribe or Alaska Native, as defined in 

section 3 (b) of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA), 43 

U.S.C. 1602 (b); or a Native Hawaiian, as defined in WIA section 

166(b)(30). The person must also be any one of the following: 

unemployed or underemployed, as defined in 668.150; or a low-income 

individual, as defined in WIA section 101(250) or the recipient of a 

bona fide layoff notice who is in need of retraining to secure or 

retain employment; or employed individual who is in need of employment 

and training services to obtain or retain employment that allows for 

self-sufficiency. [20 CFR 668.300 (a) & (b)]

.

Program (department): Native American Vocational and Technical 

Education Program (Education); Objective: To make grants or enter into 

contracts with Federally recognized Indian tribes, tribal 

organizations, Alaska Native entities and eligible Bureau-funded 

schools that do not propose to use the award to support secondary 

vocational and technical education programs.

; Eligibility criteria: Federally recognized Indian tribes, tribal 

organizations, Alaska Native entities and eligible Bureau-funded 

schools that do not propose to use the award to support secondary 

vocational and technical education programs.

Program (department): Older workers; Objective: [Empty]; Eligibility 

criteria: [Empty]; Eligibility criteria: A TAA beneficiary must (1) be 

a member of a worker group that has been found by the Labor Department 

to be adversely affected by increased imports, either directly or 

indirectly, or by a shift of production, and therefore certified 

eligible to apply for Trade Adjustment Assistance, and (2) must meet 

the following individual requirements: (a.) his or her total or partial 

separation must have begun on or after the date specified in the 

certification as the beginning of the adverse import impact and (b) his 

or her total or partial separation must begin before the expiration of 

the two-year period beginning on the date on which the Secretary issued 

the certification or before the termination date, if any, specified in 

the certification.

: Individuals eligible for assistance include workers who have lost 

their jobs as a result of plant closings or mass layoffs, and are 

unlikely to return to their previous industry or occupation; formerly 

self-employed individuals; and displaced homemakers who have been 

dependant on income of another family member, but are no longer 

supported by that income. National Emergency Grant Program--Identical 

eligibility; also include certain military personnel individuals and 

defense employees. Services are targeted on individuals affected by 

mass layoffs, natural disasters, Federal government actions, and other 

circumstances specified by the Secretary.: Migrant and seasonal 

farmworkers: Migratory, agricultural and seasonal farmworkers with 

disabilities and their family members.: An eligible seasonal Farm 

worker--is a disadvantaged person who for 12 consecutive months out of 

the 24 months prior to application for the program, has been primarily 

employed in agricultural labor that is characterized by chronic 

unemployment or underemployment.

An eligible Migrant farm worker--is a seasonal farmworker whose 

agricultural labor requires travel to a job site such that the 

farmworker is unable to return to a permanent place of residence within 

the same day.

Dependents of eligible seasonal or migrant farm workers are also 

eligible.: [Empty].

Program (department): Senior Community Service Employment (Labor); 

Objective: To provide, foster, and promote part-time work opportunities 

(usually 20 hours per work) in community service activities for 

unemployed, low-income persons who are 55 years of age and older. To 

the extent feasible, the program assists and promotes the transition of 

program enrollees into unsubsidized employment. In addition, the SCSEP 

coordinates with other DOL programs to provide training.

; Eligibility criteria: Adults 55 years or older with a family income 

at or below 125 percent of the DHHS poverty level. Prospective 

participants must certify information relative to age and personal 

financial status which is needed to determine whether the individual is 

economically disadvantaged and program eligible.

Program (department): Persons with physical or mental disabilities; 

Eligibility criteria: A TAA beneficiary must (1) be a member of a 

worker group that has been found by the Labor Department to be 

adversely affected by increased imports, either directly or indirectly, 

or by a shift of production, and therefore certified eligible to apply 

for Trade Adjustment Assistance, and (2) must meet the following 

individual requirements: (a.) his or her total or partial separation 

must have begun on or after the date specified in the certification as 

the beginning of the adverse import impact and (b) his or her total or 

partial separation must begin before the expiration of the two-year 

period beginning on the date on which the Secretary issued the 

certification or before the termination date, if any, specified in the 

certification.

: Individuals eligible for assistance include workers who have lost 

their jobs as a result of plant closings or mass layoffs, and are 

unlikely to return to their previous industry or occupation; formerly 

self-employed individuals; and displaced homemakers who have been 

dependant on income of another family member, but are no longer 

supported by that income. National Emergency Grant Program--Identical 

eligibility; also include certain military personnel individuals and 

defense employees. Services are targeted on individuals affected by 

mass layoffs, natural disasters, Federal government actions, and other 

circumstances specified by the Secretary.: Migrant and seasonal 

farmworkers: Migratory, agricultural and seasonal farmworkers with 

disabilities and their family members.: An eligible seasonal Farm 

worker--is a disadvantaged person who for 12 consecutive months out of 

the 24 months prior to application for the program, has been primarily 

employed in agricultural labor that is characterized by chronic 

unemployment or underemployment.

An eligible Migrant farm worker--is a seasonal farmworker whose 

agricultural labor requires travel to a job site such that the 

farmworker is unable to return to a permanent place of residence within 

the same day.

Dependents of eligible seasonal or migrant farm workers are also 

eligible.: [Empty].

Program (department): Projects With Industry; Objective: The purpose of 

this program is to create and expand job and career opportunities for 

individuals with disabilities in the competitive labor market engaging 

the talent and leadership of private industry as partners in the 

rehabilitation process, to identify competitive jobs and careers and 

the skills needed to perform such jobs, to create practical job and 

career readiness and training programs, and to provide job placements 

and career advancements.

; Eligibility criteria: An individual is eligible for service under 

this program if--(1) the individual has a disability or a significant 

disability under section 7 (20)(A) or 7(21)(A) of the Rehabilitation 

Act; (2) the individual requires vocational services to prepare for, 

secure, retain, or regain employment; and the determination of 

eligibility is consistent with section 102(a) of the Rehabilitation Act 

of 1973, as amended.

Program (department): State Supported Employment Services Program 

(Education); Objective: The State Supported Employment Services Program 

provides grants to assist States in developing and implementing 

collaborative programs with appropriate entities to provide supported 

employment services for individuals with the most significant 

disabilities to enable such individuals to achieve the employment 

outcome of supported employment.; Eligibility criteria: A state may 

provide services under this program to any individual if: the 

individual has been determined eligible for vocational rehabilitation 

services in accordance with the criteria in section 102 (a)(1) of the 

Rehabilitation Act; the individual has been determined to be an 

individual with a most significant disability; supported employment has 

been identified as appropriate employment outcome for the individual on 

the basis of a comprehensive assessment of rehabilitation needs, 

including an evaluation of rehabilitation, career, and job needs. 

.

Program (department): State Vocational Rehabilitation Services 

(Education); Objective: The State Vocational Rehabilitation Services 

Program provides grants to assist states in operating statewide 

comprehensive, coordinated, effective, efficient and accountable 

programs, each of which is: an integral part of a statewide workforce 

investment system; and designed to assess, plan, develop, and provide 

vocational rehabilitation services for individuals with disabilities, 

consistent with their strengths, resources, priorities, concerns, 

abilities, capabilities, interests, and informed choice, so that they 

may prepare for and engage in gainful employment.; Eligibility 

criteria: Determination of an applicants eligibility for vocational 

rehabilitation services is based on the following requirements: a 

determination by qualified personnel that the applicant has a physical 

or mental impairment; a determination by qualified personnel that the 

applicants physical or mental impairment constitutes or results in a 

substantial impediment to employment for the applicant; a determination 

by a qualified vocational rehabilitation counselor employed by the 

designated State unit that the applicant requires vocational 

rehabilitation services to prepare for, secure, retain or regain 

employment consistent with the applicants unique strengths, resources, 

priorities, concerns, abilities, capabilities, interests, and informed 

choice; a presumption, in accordance with section 102 (a)(2) of the 

Rehabilitation Act, that the applicant can benefit in terms of an 

employment outcome from the provision of vocational rehabilitation 

services.

.

Program (department): Refugees.

Program (department): Refugee and Entrant Assistance--Targeted 

Assistance (HHS); Objective: To provide funding for employment-related 

and other social services for refugees, asylees, Amerasians, victims of 

a severe form of trafficking certified by ORR, and entrants in areas of 

high refugee concentration and high welfare utilization. These funds 

assist refugees who have experienced difficulty in making the 

transition to employment or who have lost their jobs and require re-

employment services.; Eligibility criteria: Persons admitted to the 

United States within the last 5 years as refugees under Section 207 of 

the Immigration and Nationality Act; granted asylum under Section 208 

of the Act; Cuban and Haitian entrants, as defined in Section 501 of 

the Refugee Education Assistance Act; and certain Amerasians from 

Vietnam and their accompanying family members, as defined by Section 

584 (c) of the Foreign Relations, Export Financing, and Related 

Programs Appropriation Act of 1988. Also included are victims of a 

severe form of trafficking as defined by section 107(b)(1)(A) of the 

Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000.

.

Program (department): Refugee and Entrant Assistance--Voluntary Agency 

Programs (HHS); Objective: The Matching Grant program, funded by 

Congress since 1979, provides an alternative approach to State-

administered resettlement assistance. The programs goal is to help 

refugees attain self-sufficiency within four months after arrival, 

without access to public cash assistance. Participating agencies agree 

to match the ORR grant with cash and in-kind contributions; twenty 

percent of their match must be in cash. Since mid-1999, ORR has matched 

each dollar of agency contribution of cash or in-kind services with 

$2.00 of ORR funds, with a maximum Federal contribution of $2,000 per 

refugee. The Matching Grant program is characterized by a strong 

emphasis on early employment and intensive services during the first 

four months after arrival. ORR requires participating agencies to 

provide maintenance (food and housing), case management, and employment 

services in-house. Additional services, such as language training and 

medical assistance, may be provided in-house or arranged through 

referral to other programs. Refugees in the Matching Grant program may 

use publicly funded medical assistance.

; Eligibility criteria: Refugees (the term refugee is used to apply 

to refugees, asylees, Amerasian immigrants from Vietnam, certified 

victims of trafficking, and Cuban or Haitian entrants) will be 

determined eligible by the grantee agencies as verified by Health and 

Human Services (HHS) monitoring.

Program (department): Unemployed.

Program (department): Food Stamp Employment and Training Program 

(Agriculture); Objective: The programs goals are to help job-ready 

food stamp recipients find work and to assist others to gain skills, 

training, or experience that will lead to their employment.; 

Eligibility criteria: All non-exempt food stamp applicants and 

recipients are subject to Food Stamp Program work requirements, 

including participation in the Food Stamp Employment and Training (E&T) 

Program, if assigned by the State agency. Exempted are persons younger 

than 16 or 60 and older; persons physically or mentally unable to work; 

those responsible for the care of a child under 6 or of an 

incapacitated individual; students; recipients of assistance under the 

title IV-A of the Social Security Act (Temporary Assistance for Needy 

Families--TANF) or of unemployment compensation; employed persons or 

those participating in drug or alcohol treatment programs. Specifically 

targeted are able-bodied adults without dependents (ABAWDS) subject to 

the Food Stamp Program participation limit. Unless they are employed, 

participating in qualifying education or training activities for at 

least 20 hours a week, or participating in workfare, ABAWDS are limited 

to receiving food stamps for 3 months in a 36 month period.

.

Program (department): Tribal Work Grants [or Native Employment Works 

(NEW)] (HHS); Objective: To allow eligible Indian Tribes and Alaska 

Native organizations to operate a program to make work activities 

available.; Eligibility criteria: The NEW program serves unemployed and 

underemployed individuals. NEW program grantees determine specific 

eligibility requirements for their NEW programs.

.

Program (department): Veterans; Objective: [Empty]; Eligibility 

criteria: [Empty]; Eligibility criteria: A TAA beneficiary must (1) be 

a member of a worker group that has been found by the Labor Department 

to be adversely affected by increased imports, either directly or 

indirectly, or by a shift of production, and therefore certified 

eligible to apply for Trade Adjustment Assistance, and (2) must meet 

the following individual requirements: (a.) his or her total or partial 

separation must have begun on or after the date specified in the 

certification as the beginning of the adverse import impact and (b) his 

or her total or partial separation must begin before the expiration of 

the two-year period beginning on the date on which the Secretary issued 

the certification or before the termination date, if any, specified in 

the certification.

: Individuals eligible for assistance include workers who have lost 

their jobs as a result of plant closings or mass layoffs, and are 

unlikely to return to their previous industry or occupation; formerly 

self-employed individuals; and displaced homemakers who have been 

dependant on income of another family member, but are no longer 

supported by that income. National Emergency Grant Program--Identical 

eligibility; also include certain military personnel individuals and 

defense employees. Services are targeted on individuals affected by 

mass layoffs, natural disasters, Federal government actions, and other 

circumstances specified by the Secretary.: Migrant and seasonal 

farmworkers: Migratory, agricultural and seasonal farmworkers with 

disabilities and their family members.: An eligible seasonal Farm 

worker--is a disadvantaged person who for 12 consecutive months out of 

the 24 months prior to application for the program, has been primarily 

employed in agricultural labor that is characterized by chronic 

unemployment or underemployment.

An eligible Migrant farm worker--is a seasonal farmworker whose 

agricultural labor requires travel to a job site such that the 

farmworker is unable to return to a permanent place of residence within 

the same day.

Dependents of eligible seasonal or migrant farm workers are also 

eligible.: [Empty].

Program (department): Disabled Veterans Outreach Program (DVOP) 

(Labor); Objective: To develop jobs and job training opportunities for 

disabled and other veterans through contacts with employers; promote 

and develop on-the-job training and apprenticeship and other on-the-job 

training positions within the Federal job training (e.g., VWIP, HYRP, 

VA programs); provide outreach to veterans through all community 

agencies and organizations; provide assistance to community-based 

groups and organizations and appropropriate grantees under other 

Federal and federally-funded employment and training programs; develop 

linkages with other agencies to promote maximum employment 

opportunities for veterans; and to provide employability development 

and vocational guidance to eligible veterans, especially disabled 

veterans, utilizing a case-management approach to services, wherever 

applicable.

; Eligibility criteria: DVOP specialists serve veterans, however, 

Section 4103A(b)(1) provides a certain order of priority among target 

groups of veterans for the services of DVOP specialists, and indicates 

that special consideration will be given to educationally and 

economically disadvantaged veterans. P.L. 101-510 also provided that 

individuals receiving disability discharges and medically retired from 

the military be provided transition assistance under the Disabled 

Veterans Transition Assistance Program (DTAP).

Program (department): Homeless Veterans Reintegration Program 

(Labor); Objective: To provide funds for demonstration programs to 

expedite the reintegration of homeless veterans into the labor force.; 

Eligibility criteria: Individuals who are homeless veterans. The term 

homeless or homeless individual includes: (1) an individual who 

lacks a fixed, regular, and adequate night-time residence; and (2) an 

individual who has a primary night-time residence that is: (a) a 

supervised publicly or privately operated shelter designed to provide 

temporary living accommodations including welfare hotels, congregate 

shelters, and transitional housing for the mentally ill; (b) an 

institution that provides a temporary institutionalized; (c) a public 

or private place not designed for, or ordinarily used as, a regular 

sleeping accommodations for human beings (Reference 42 U.S.C 1302). A 

veteran is an individual who served in the activity military, naval 

or air service, and who was discharged or released from there under 

conditions other than dishonorable. (Reference: 33 U.S.C. 101 (2).)

.

Program (department): Local Veterans Employment Representative 

Program (Labor); Objective: To provide job development, placement, and 

support services directly to veterans and to ensure that there is local 

supervision of State Employment Agencies compliance with Federal 

regulations, performance standards, and grant agreement provisions in 

carrying out requirements of 38 U.S.C. 4104 in providing veterans with 

maximum employment and training opportunities.; Eligibility criteria: 

Although veterans are the intended beneficiaries of LVER services, as 

per the CFDA, Congress has authorized or otherwise defined eligible 

persons at 38 U.S.C 4105 (5), and has authorized through Pub.L. 101-

510, the LVER to assist separating service members and their spouses 

with their transition to the civilian labor force, while the members 

are still on active duty and not technically considered veterans yet. 

Within the local employment offices and other such service delivery 

points, the LVER concentrates on facilitating those veterans and 

eligible persons who are identified with some barrier between them and 

their employment or training related objective. These individuals are 

the target population of LVER services and may include disabled 

veterans, homeless veterans, veterans with combat experience (wartime, 

campaign badge/expeditionary medal recipients), economically or 

educationally disadvantaged veterans in need of training or retraining 

to become marketable in the local labor market, or veterans in need to 

a State license or certification to practice or work in their chosen/

trained field.

.

Program (department): Veterans Workforce Investment Program (Labor); 

Objective: To support employment and training programs, through grants 

or contracts, to meet the needs for assistance of certain veterans.; 

Eligibility criteria: Recently separated veterans; service-connected 

disabled veterans; campaign/conflict veterans; and veterans who have 

significant barriers to employment. (All of the above are eligible 

unless they have a dishonorable discharge.)

.

Program (department): Vocational Rehabilitation for Disabled Veterans 

(Veterans); Objective: To provide for all services and assistance to 

enable veterans with service-connected disabilities to prepare for, 

obtain, or maintain suitable employment. When the severity of 

disability does not permit employment to be an option, the program can 

provide the needed services and assistance to help the individual learn 

skills to achieve maximum independence in daily living.; Eligibility 

criteria: Veterans of World War II and later service with a service-

service-connected disability or disabilities rated at least 20 percent 

compensable and certain service-disabled service persons pending 

discharge or release from service if VA determines the servicepersons 

will likely receive at least a 20 percent rating and they need 

vocational rehabilitation because of an employment handicap. Veterans 

with compensable ratings of 10 percent may also be eligible if they are 

found to have a serious employment handicap.

.

Program (department): Youth.

Program (department): Grants to States for Incarcerated Youth Offenders 

(Education); Objective: To assist incarcerated youth offenders in 

obtaining postsecondary education and postsecondary vocational 

training. Measured objectives are lower recidivism, academic 

achievement, job placement, and job retention.; Eligibility criteria: 

Individuals who are incarcerated in a state prison, including a pre-

release facility or an alternative program such as a boot camp; are 

eligible to be released or paroled within 5 years; are 25 years of age 

or younger; and have obtained a secondary school diploma or its 

equivalent.

.

Program (department): Jobs Corps (Labor); Objective: Job Corps is the 

nations largest residential and educational employment and training 

program for economically challenged youth, ages 16 through 34, who face 

multiple barriers to employment. The objectives of the program are to 

provide, in an integrated manner, a comprehensive array of services, 

such as: academic, vocational, and life skills training, and work-based 

learning, in order to provide the skills necessary for long-term 

attachment to the labor market.

Youth who enter the Jobs Corps program without a high school 

equivalency and/or job training skills, will have the opportunity to 

receive both. Additionally, in June 2001, Job Corps established 

attainment of high school diplomas as a national priority. During PY 

01, 90% of all graduates and 75% of all terminees entered employment, 

enrolled in further education, or entered the military.

; Eligibility criteria: Job Corps is designed for out-of-school youth, 

usually dropouts prior to graduation, ages 16-24, who are a legal 

resident or lawfully admitted permanent resident aliens who are 

authorized to work in the United States. The targeted population is 

low-income, meaning those on public assistance, a foster child, 

disabled, homeless, and/or earned income at the poverty level. Minor 

students must have signed parental/guardian consent. Potential 

enrollees must be free of behavior problems that would prohibit self or 

others from benefiting from the program and they may not be currently 

engaged in illegal drug use. Parents with dependent children must have 

a childcare plan.

Program (department): Opportunities for Youth--Youthbuild Program 

(HUD); Objective: The Youthbuild program provides funding assistance 

for a wide range of multi-disciplinary activities and services to 

assist economically disadvantaged youth. The opportunities are designed 

to help disadvantaged young adults who have dropped out of high school 

to obtain the education and employment skills necessary to achieve 

economic self-sufficiency and develop leadership skills and a 

commitment to community development in low to very low-income 

communities. Another objective of the Youthbuild program is to expand 

the supply of permanent affordable housing for homeless persons and 

members of low income and very low-income families. By giving 

disadvantaged young adults participating in the program meaningful on-

site training experiences constructing or rehabilitating housing as a 

community service, they are helping to meet the housing needs of 

homeless and low income families in their community.

; Eligibility criteria: Disadvantaged, at-risk, low to very low-income 

young adults, ages 16 to 24, who have dropped out of high school are 

eligible. The program emphasizes special outreach efforts to be 

undertaken to recruit eligible young women. The program permits 

exceptions for young adults who do not meet the programs income or 

education requirements but who have educational needs despite 

attainment of a high school diploma or its equivalent. Exceptions for 

individuals in this category cannot exceed 25 percent of all 

participants.

Program (department): Responsible Reintegration of Youthful Offenders 

(DOL); Objective: The focus of the Responsible Reintegration of 

Youthful Offenders initiative is to assist communities in planning and 

implementing comprehensive reentry programs to address the full range 

of challenges involved in helping young offenders released from 

incarceration make a successful transition back to the community. The 

goal is to protect community safety through the successful 

reintegration of offenders, ages 14-35, returning to the community by 

ensuring that offenders become productive, responsible, and law-abiding 

citizens; are provided with positive opportunities to engage in pro-

social activities; maintain long-term employment; sustain a stable 

residence; and successfully address their substance abuse issues and 

mental health needs. 

; Eligibility criteria: The initiative provides services for youth and 

adults ages 14-35 who are or have been under criminal/juvenile justice 

supervision or are involved in gangs or are at risk of this 

involvement. Targeted individuals may also be returning from secure 

confinement back into the community. Grantees have wide latitude in 

selecting their target population.

Program (department): WIA Youth; (Labor); Objective: To place continued 

emphasis on improving the quality of services and enhancing program 

performance in order to equip young workers with the knowledge, skills 

and abilities they need to: become productive citizens and successfully 

transition into adulthood, effectively meet the changing needs of 

business and the new economy, and get and keep good jobs with career 

paths, promotional opportunities, and wage gains.; Eligibility 

criteria: Under Title I, Sections 101 and 127, an eligible youth is an 

individual who: (1) is 14-21 years of age; and (2) is an individual who 

received an income or are members of a family that received a total 

family income that does not exceed the higher of (a) the poverty line; 

or (b) 70 percent of the lower living standard income; and (3) meets 

one or more of the following criteria: Is an individual who is 

deficient in basic literacy skills; a school dropout; homeless; a 

runaway; a foster child; pregnant or a parent; an offender; or requires 

additional assistance to complete their education or secure and hold 

employment. 

.

Program (department): Youth; Challenge Program (DOD)

; Objective: Not available.; Eligibility criteria: Not available.

Program (department): Other low income individuals.

Program (department): Community Services Block Grant--Discretionary 

Awards (HHS); Objective: Community Economic Development Program: To 

support projects which provide employment and ownership opportunities 

for low-income people through business, physical or commercial 

development, and which generally improve the quality of the economic 

and social environment of low-income residents in economically 

depressed areas. The emphases of projects must be on job creation, 

self-help and mobilization of the community-at-large.

Community Facilities Development Program: To support projects to help 

low-income rural communities develop the capability and expertise to 

establish and maintain or preserve affordable, adequate and safe water 

and waste water treatment facilities. Activities may include the 

dissemination of information on water and waste water programs serving 

rural communities; upgrading local expertise in water and waste water 

development; assisting rural communities in developing the capability 

to manage and operate water and waste water facilities; and improving 

coordination of Federal, State and local water and waste water program 

financing and development to assure quality service to rural 

communities. 

; Eligibility criteria: A project must be targeted to address the needs 

of a specific segment of low-income individuals or families. The 

official poverty line established by the Director of the Office of 

Management and Budget, published annually by the Department of Health 

and Human Services is used as a criterion of eligibility in the 

Community Services Discretionary Grant program.

Program (department): WIA Adults (Labor); Objective: To provide 

workforce investment activities that increase the employment, retention 

and earnings of participants, and increase occupational skill 

attainment by the participants. This program aims to improve the 

quality of the workforce and enhance the productivity of the nations 

economy. This program is designed to increase employment, as measured 

by entry into unsubsidized employment, and retention in unsubsidized 

entered employment six months after entry into employment. For cross-

cutting goals, the program intends to enhance customer satisfaction for 

participants and for employers. The employment goals will be measured 

using Insurance Wage Records Systems and customer satisfaction goals 

measured by sampling.; Eligibility criteria: All adults 18 years and 

older are eligible for core services. Priority for intensive services 

and training services must be given to recipients of public assistance 

and other low-income individuals where funds are limited. States and 

local areas are responsible for establishing procedures for applying 

the priority requirements.

Program (department): Unspecified target groups.

Program (department): Adult Education--State Grant Program 

(Education); Objective: To create a partnership among the Federal 

Government, States, and localities to provide, on a voluntary basis, 

adult education and literacy services in order to assist adults to 

become literate; and obtain the knowledge and skills necessary for 

employment and self-sufficiency; assist adults who are parents to 

obtain the educational skills necessary to become full partners in the 

educational development of their children; and assist adults in the 

completion of a secondary school education. 

; Eligibility criteria: Out of school adults who are 16 years of age or 

older, who are not enrolled or required to be enrolled in secondary 

school under State law, and who lack sufficient mastery of basic 

educational skills to enable them to function effectively in society or 

do not have a secondary school diploma or its recognized equivalent, 

and have not achieved an equivalent level of education, or are unable 

to speak, read, or write the English language.

Program (department): Community Services Block Grant (HHS); Objective: 

To provide assistance to States and local communities, working through 

a network of community action agencies and other neighborhood-based 

organizations, for the reduction of poverty, the revitalization of low-

income communities, and the empowerment of low-income families and 

individuals in rural and urban areas to become fully self-sufficient 

(particularly families who are attempting to transition off a State 

program carried out under Part A of title IV of the Social Security 

Act). 

; Eligibility criteria: States make grants to qualified locally-based 

nonprofit community antipoverty agencies and other eligible entities, 

which provide services to low-income individuals and families. The 

official poverty line, as established by the Secretary of Health and 

Human Services, is used as a criterion of eligibility in the Community 

Services Block Grant program. When a State determines that it serves 

the objectives of the block grant, it may revise the income limit, not 

to exceed 125 percent of the official poverty line.

Program (department): Employment Service (Labor); Objective: To provide 

labor exchange services and career counseling to current, emerging and 

transitional workers seeking to obtain or upgrade current employment 

activities, giving priority service to veterans and disabled veterans. 

To provide labor exchange services including the recruitment, 

preliminary assessment, screening and referral of qualified individuals 

to employers needing to fill positions.

; Eligibility criteria: Wagner Peyser provides universal access to 

customers through the One Stop Career Center System.

Program (department): H-1B Technical Skills Training Grant Program; 

Objective: H-1B Technical Skills Training Grants are financed by a user 

fee paid by employers to bring foreign workers into the United States 

on a temporary basis to work in high skill or specialty occupations. As 

part of the H-1B non-immigrant visa program, DOLs Technical Skills 

Training Grant program was established under the American 

Competitiveness and Workforce Improvement Act of 1998 (ACWIA 1998) as 

amended by the American Competitiveness in the Twentieth Century Act of 

2002 (ACWIA 2000) and companion legislation. The grants are a long-term 

solution to domestic skill shortages in high skill and high technology 

occupation--raising the technical skill levels of American workers so 

they can take advantage of the new technology-related, high skills 

employment opportunities. This will, in turn, help businesses reduce 

their dependence on skilled foreign professionals permitted to work in 

the United States on a temporary basis under the H-1B visa program. H-

1B technical skills grants are focused on directly addressing the high 

skill technology shortages of American businesses; they are not 

intended to address the labor shortages due to reasons other than 

technical skill shortages.

; Eligibility criteria: Technical skills training grants are geared 

towards employed and unemployed workers who can be trained and placed 

directly in highly skilled H-1B occupations or in the highest echelons 

of an H-1B career ladder. Candidates for training funded by the H-1B 

Technical Skills Training Grants should possess (and be identified 

through appropriate assessment tools) a high level of general 

educational background and, in addition, have the prerequisites for the 

occupational training being proposed. Targeted individuals should also 

possess certain characteristics such as drive and initiative that will 

help guarantee successful completion of the high skill level training 

funded by H-1B grants. Employees at the H-1B skill level are generally 

characterized as having a Bachelors degree or comparable work 

experience.

Program (department): Migrant Education--High School Equivalency 

Program; Objective: To assist students who are engaged, or whose 

parents are engaged, in migrant and other seasonal farm work to obtain 

the equivalent of a secondary school diploma and subsequently to gain 

employment or be placed in an institution of higher education or other 

postsecondary education or training; Eligibility criteria: Persons who 

are engaged or whose parents are engaged in migrant and other seasonal 

farmwork or who have participated or have been eligible to participate 

in the Title I, MEP or the Workforce Investment Act (WIA), Section 167. 

Eligible beneficiaries are 16 or older or beyond the age of compulsory 

school attendance, and lacking a high school diploma

.

Program (department): Native Hawaiian Vocational Education 

(Education); Objective: To make grants with organizations primarily 

serving and representing Native Hawaiians which are recognized by the 

Governor of the state of Hawaii to plan, conduct, and administer 

programs, or portions thereof, which are authorized by and consistent 

with the provisions of Section 116 of the Carl D. Perkins Vocational 

and Applied Technology Education Amendments of 1998 for the benefit of 

Native Hawaiians.

; Eligibility criteria: Native Hawaiians.

Program (department): Registered Apprenticeship Training (Labor); 

Objective: Planning and directing a national workforce system to 

improve the work skills of the nations workforce through programs of 

apprenticeship and other employment connected skills training; to 

ensure equality of access into these programs; to encourage States to 

take similar action with respect to their labor force; and to make 

available technical assistance service on training to businesses; 

service on training to employers and unions, in accordance with Title 

29, CFR Parts 20 and 30, and other applicable laws and regulations, 

including the Workforce Investment Act of 1998; Supports state and 

local workforce investment boards to coordinate and establish employer 

/labor involvement in the design of training programs to meet the 

demand for current and future jobs.

; Eligibility criteria: Individuals applying for acceptance into an 

apprenticeship-training program must be at least 16 years old and must 

satisfy other minimum qualifications required by a registered 

apprenticeship program sponsor. Apprenticeship programs provide 

workers with a full-time wage while they learn, and employers with a 

broader pool of workers from which to select.

Program (department): Serious and Violent Offender Initiative 

(Justice); Objective: The Serious and Violent Offender Reentry 

Initiative responds to the release and reentry of thousands of adult 

and juvenile, serious, high-risk offenders into communities across the 

country. This initiative is part of a collaborative effort of multiple 

Federal partners consisting of the U.S. Departments of Justice, Labor, 

Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, Education, 

and Veterans Affairs. The initiative will provide funding and/or 

resources to develop, implement, enhance, and evaluate reentry 

strategies that will ensure the safety of the community and reduce 

serious violent crime and recidivism. The Federal partners will assist 

State and local agencies in identifying, accessing, and leveraging 

existing Federal, State, and local resources in their efforts to create 

a prototypical reentry system that addresses both juvenile and adult 

offender populations in all three phases of reentry: institutional 

readiness; community reentry; and stabilization. This system should be 

designed for replication in other jurisdictions throughout the States. 

This goal would be accomplished by providing structure and authority 

that guide the return of these offenders to the community and that 

ensure their access to an array of existing institutional and community 

resources, pursuant to detailed plans created from a thorough 

assessment of their individual needs.

; Eligibility criteria: The target population includes serious and 

violent/high-risk offenders (juvenile and/or adult) who have been 

incarcerated in post-adjudicatory institutions, such as prisons and 

training schools, and are considered to be at high risk of recidivism. 

Offenders who have been determined likely to commit serious and/or 

violent felony crime upon their release should be targeted.

Program (department): Tech Prep Education (Education); Objective: To 

distribute funds to States to enable them to provide planning and 

demonstration grants to a consortia of local educational agencies and 

postsecondary educational agencies, for the development and operation 

of 4-year programs designed to provide a tech prep education program 

leading to a 2-year associate degree or a 2-year certificate and to 

provide, in a systematic manner, strong, comprehensive links between 

secondary schools and postsecondary educational institutions.

; Eligibility criteria: Individuals desiring to participate in a 

combined secondary/postsecondary program leading to an associate degree 

or 2-year certificate with technical preparation in at least one field 

of engineering, applied science, mechanical, industrial, or practical 

art or trade, or agriculture, health, or business.

Program (department): Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (HHS); 

Objective: To provide grants to States, Territories, or Tribes to 

assist needy families with children so that children can be cared for 

in their own homes; to reduce dependency by promoting job preparation, 

work, and marriage; to reduce and prevent out-of-wedlock pregnancies; 

and to encourage the formation and maintenance of two-parent families. 

; Eligibility criteria: Needy families with children, as determined 

eligible by the State, Territory or Tribe in accordance with the State 

or Tribal plan submitted to the Department of Health and Human Services 

(HHS).

Program (department): Tribally Controlled Postsecondary Vocational and 

Technical Institutions (Education); Objective: To make grants to 

tribally controlled postsecondary vocational and technical 

institutions that are not receiving federal support under the tribally 

controlled College or University Assistance Act of 1978 (25 U.S.C. 1801 

et seq.) or the Navajo Community College Act (25 U.S.C. 640a et seq.) 

to provide basic support for the education and training of Indian 

students.

; Eligibility criteria: American Indians and Native Alaskans will 

benefit.

Program (department): Vocational Education--Basic Grants to States 

(Education); Objective: To develop more fully the academic, vocational 

and technical skills of secondary students and postsecondary students 

who elect to enroll in vocational and technical education, through 

challenging academic standards, the integration of academic and 

technical education, and linking of secondary to postsecondary 

education. The objectives are found in the core indicators of 

performance: student attainment of challenging State established 

academic, and vocational and technical skills proficiencies; student 

attainment of a secondary school diploma or its recognized equivalent, 

a proficiency credential in conjunction with a secondary school 

diploma, or a postsecondary degree or credential; placement in, 

retention in and completion of, postsecondary education or advanced 

training, placement in military service, or placement or retention in 

employment; and student participation in and completion of vocational 

and technical education programs that lead to non-traditional training 

and employment.

; Eligibility criteria: Provides funds to local educational agencies 

and postsecondary educational institutions with vocational and 

technical education programs, for education program improvement. The 

beneficiaries are secondary students and postsecondary students who 

enroll in vocational and technical education.

Program (department): Workforce Investment Act (WIA) Formula Grant 

Program--Youth Opportunity Grants; Objective: To increase the long-term 

employment of youth who live in empowerment zones, enterprise 

communities, and high poverty areas. Youth Opportunity Grants 

concentrate extensive resources in high poverty areas in order to bring 

about community-wide impact on: Employment rates, high school 

completion rates, and college enrollment rates.

; Eligibility criteria: Youth eligible to be served by the grant must 

be 14 to 21 years of age; reside in the target area; and males age 18 

and above must be registered as required under the Selective Service 

Act. Youth residing in the target community are eligible to be served 

by these grants regardless of family income.

Source: Program objectives and eligibility criteria obtained from the 

Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance and from agency officials.

[A] Category includes American Indians and all other indigenous 

populations.

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