Workforce Investment Act: Better Guidance and Revised Funding Formula Would Enhance Dislocated Worker Program
Abstract
WIA specifies one funding source for each of the act's main client groups-adults, youths, and dislocated workers. Labor estimated that approximately 927,000 dislocated workers would be served with these funds in program year 2000. A dislocated worker is an individual who (1) has been terminated or laid off, or who has received a notice of termination or layoff, from employment; is eligible for, or has exhausted entitlement to, unemployment insurance or is not eligible but has been employed for a sufficient duration to demonstrate attachment to the workforce; and is unlikely to return to previous industry or occupation; (2) has been terminated or laid off, or has received a notice of termination or layoff, from employment as a result of any permanent plant closure of, or substantial layoff at, a plant, facility, or enterprise; (3) was self employed but is unemployed as a result of general economic conditions in the community in which the individual resides or because of natural disasters; or (4) is a displaced homemaker.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Feb 01, 2002
- Accession Number
- ADA399223
Entities
People
- James M. Jeffords
Organizations
- United States Government Accountability Office