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ECONOMIC MOTIVES FOR “SOCIAL” PROGRAMS: THE NEW FEDERAL DIRECTION
Author(s) -
Jensen J. Martin
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
review of policy research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.832
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1541-1338
pISSN - 1541-132X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1541-1338.1987.tb00823.x
Subject(s) - legislation , legislature , administration (probate law) , general partnership , public administration , government (linguistics) , politics , state (computer science) , order (exchange) , political science , private sector , social partnership , training (meteorology) , federal state , business , law , finance , philosophy , linguistics , algorithm , computer science , physics , meteorology
The Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA), passed by Congress in 1982, is significant federal employment and training legislation for a number of reasons. Most noticeably, it substantially enhanced private sector and state government roles in the administration of such programs. In order to understand both the programmatic impact of JTPA and its likely consequences on subsequent federal employment and training initiatives, it is necessary to look at the politics of the legislation‐especially those interests that are strongly represented through its implementation and those that are not. By doing this, one obtains a better sense of the dimensions of conflict around future employment and training legislation. General guidelines within which Congress should act in subsequent legislative activity are laid out.