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This volume of an annual journal contains 17 articles that focus on model local offices of the employment security (ES) and training systems. The articles are arranged in three parts. Part I, on developing new initiatives, contains the following five articles: "A Public Employment Service for the 1990s" (Elizabeth Dole); "The Revitalization of the Employment Service: Improving the Employer Relations Program" (Martin Smith); "Coordination Brings LMI and Job Service Together" (Ellen Saunders, Betsey Fettman); "Jobs New Jersey: A Model Concept in Cooperation" (J. Robert White); and "Building on Experience: The Ohio Bureau of Employment Service's Role in JOBS" (Ellen Saunders, Barbara Kaufman). Part II, which concerns local offices that address unique situations, contains five articles: "New Jersey Response Team" (Scott Stryker); "A 24-Hour Job Service" (Diana Staley); "West Virginia: A Leader in Meeting the Needs of Rural America" (Andrew Richardson); "Weslaco: Model Full-Service Office in the Rio Grande Valley" (John Stine); and "One of a Kind" (Bud Cork). The seven articles in Part III focus on creating local office models. They are: "One-Stop Service for Application Taking and Eligibility Determinations for Job Training, Job Placement, and Unemployment Insurance" (Lyle Halvorson); "Community Service Centers: Helping NY Work--Better" (Thomas Hartnett); "The Idaho Story: Model Office Operations--ES, UI, LMI, JTPA" (Tom Valasek); "Employ Illinois: An Economic Development and Human Services Initiative" (Robert Frank); "Job Centers Address Southeastern Pennsylvania's Changing Economy" (Frank Lynch, Jack McGettigan); "Meeting Human Resources Needs: Maryland Job Service Local Office Innovations" (Paulette Hall); and "Model Offices in Model Communities" (A. R. Little). (YLB)

The securities of foreign electronics and entertainment companies are analyzed. The investors in this sector are advised to be careful about their investments.

Statistics of some of the companies in the Advertising industry and their securities rankings as of May 20, 2005 are furnished. The overall prospects for the industry for the New Year are rosy but the sector is expected to be an average performer at the bourses despite the improvements in the economic conditions.

This volume of an annual journal explores the problems and opportunities confronting young people attempting to find employment and the challenges faced by employment and training professionals trying to assist them along with some possible solutions. The 16 articles are divided into three parts concerned respectively with defining the problems, federal programs, and local initiatives. Part I includes: "The Place of the Family in the Preparation of Youth for the World of Work" (Quentin Schenk and Emmy Lou Schenk); "The Youth Employment Situation" (Janet Norwood); "Preparing At-Risk Youth for Education and Employment: New Roles for Schools" (Janice Earle, Candace Sullivan); "Productive Future Requires Educational Changes" (Bruce Wilson); and "Choices: Conscious Decisions about Youth and Work" (John Stine). The following papers are presented in part II: "Youth Initiatives" (William Brock); "Creating an Employability Credential for At-Risk Youth" (Evelyn Ganzglass, Sandra Jibrell); "Occupational Information: The Supporting Role of NOICC and SOICCs" (Valerie Lloyd, James Woods); and "Disabled but Able to Work: Federal Initiatives in Training Young People with Disabilities in Employment" (Dale Brown). The articles in Part III are: "Oregon Youth Offender Placement Program" (William Sager); "A National Occupational Information System" (Neta Wall); "Employment Counseling with Youth" (Charlotte Metz); "A History of the Seward, Alaska, Youth Employment Service" (Shirley Reynolds); "A Cooperative School Program: An Overview of the Minneapolis Youth Program" (Stella Jones); "A Utah County Perspective" (NaDene Archibald); and "National Youth Service: A Challenge for Employment Security Agencies" (William Basl). (YLB)

This issue of an annual journal contains 20 papers reflecting on the efforts of U.S. employment security and training programs to meet the needs of veterans. Part I, "National Perspective," contains five essays: "Policy Issues for Veteran Job Training Programs" (Martin F. Smith); "Cognizant Ramblings: Superfluous Lags the Veteran on the Stage (Vanity of Human Wishes)" (Larry W. Rivers); "Women Veterans...Toward the Year 2000 and Beyond" (Diana D. Danis); "Civilian Occupational Labor Market Information System: A Project to Help Veterans" (Gary Crossley); and "NVTI--Three Years from Ground Zero" (Priscilla Donovan). Papers in part II, "Local Perspective," are the following: "The Employment Characteristics of the Disabled Vietnam-era Veterans in Idaho" (Robert Michael Wilson);"Views from a Local Office" (Gerald L. Kessel); "A Survey of Veteran Staff Members' Perceptions of Veterans Service Needs" (Ken West); "Making Title 38 Work from the Bottom Up" (Charles M. Kerns); and "Veterans Workforce 2000 Issues: The Tank Driver's Dilemma" (John Stine). Ten essays make up Part III, on "Local Office Programs"; they are: "Employment Security/Armed Forces Network" (James F. Wallace); "The Veterans Representative and the Armed Forces Recruiter--An Employment Counseling Approach" (Jorge B. Gonzales); "JTPA IV-C for Veterans in Florida" (Dee Campbell); "Reintegrating the Homeless Veteran through Employment" (Joy Jenko); "San Antonio Homeless Veteran Placement Project" (Arthur R. Underwood, Jr.); "Compensated Work Therapy" (Peggy Black, David Knapp); "The Texas Job-Search Seminar Counseling Connection" (Don Watson); "Vocational Information Profile: Innovations in Employment Counseling" (Kenneth D. Freeman); "Veterans in the Work Force in the Year 2000" (Alonzo Philmore); and "CARS and CAP: Employment Programs for Veterans that Produce Results" (Jim Grass). (KC)

This volume of an annual journal contains nine articles focusing on the internationalization of the world's economy and business and how employment security and employment and training programs can be involved. The opening article, "Foreign Investment Euphoria Hides Community Upheaval" (W. Scott Boyd), provides an overview of the volume which is organized in two parts. In part I, views and examples from the United States are presented in the following articles: "The Economic Climate of Multinational Corporations" (Brian Bosworth); "For Sale! Examining Attitudes" (Bruce Wilson); "Positioned for Partnership: Indiana's Employment and Training Experience with the Subaru-Isuzu Automotive, Inc. Project" (R. Joy Partridge-Ullrich, Thomas Heeter); and "The Border Industrialization Program: Mexico's Maquiladora Initiative" (John Stine). In part II, the following articles provide information on examples from around the world: "The Uganda Situation" (Sylvester Kabito); "Spain: Assisting Foreign Investment" (Jose Somalo); "Labor Supply and Demand in Japan" (Shuichoro Ogura, Katsuki Ikeda); and "Republic of China's Economic 'Miracle' Based on Foreign Trade, Development" (Pei-chi Chang, Andy Jo). (YLB)

This volume of an annual journal contains 21 articles focusing on the many services that state Employment Security (ES) agencies are providing to improve outreach to employers who pay for the programs through the dedicated revenues of the Federal Unemployment Tax Act and state benefit taxes and to improve their own staff ability to deliver service. Three essays in Part I review the basics of the three programs that comprise the Employment Security System, namely, Unemployment Insurance (UI), Employment Service, and Labor Market Information, and suggest some prospects for future improvements and considerations. The essays are: "Unemployment Insurance: The Fundamental Employers' Service" (Sar Levitan, Isaac Shapiro); "Business Needs and Employment Service Potential" (William Kolberg, Peter Carlson); and "A New Look at Employment Service Labor Market Penetration" (Harold Kuptzin). The following 11 essays in Part II review programs that reach out to the employer community: "The Tested Job Match--Validity Generalization" (Jerry Pickett); "North Carolina's No Fault, Money Back Referral Policy" (J. B. Harris); "Outreach Services to Employers" (Linda Rutschmann); "Employers' Unemployment Insurance Rights and Obligations" (Pamela Gervais); "Minnesota's Mass Recruiting Services" (John Iverson, et al.); "Colorado's Jobs Network Partnership" (Dee Campbell); "Washington's Training Network" (Gary Gallwas); "Marketing ES by Video" (William Moulfair); "Mississippi's New Hire and Job Refusal Card" (Hoyte Hart); "Oregon's Adult Exoffender Placement Program" (Raymond Thorne, William Sager); and "Oregon's Homeless Program" (Raymond Thorne, William Sager). The seven essays in Part III review state Employment Security agency programs designed to improve staff effectiveness in delivering services; they are: "Virginia's Employability Training Workshop" (Dianne James); "Job Seeking Skills Create Better Applicants" (John Stine); "Florida's Group Application Process" (Linda Frazier); "Oregon's Scanner Processing of Employers' UI Quarterly Reports" (Joe Ann Gardner); "A Computer Program as a Counseling Tool" (Suzanne Zesmer); "Labor Market Information Dispersal" (Larry Kennedy); and "Establishing Labor Market Information Expertise" (David Koch). (YLB)

This issue of an annual journal contains 18 essays on unemployment insurance (UI) and employment and training programs. Part 1, "Historical Perspective," contains the following papers: "Reflections on Wisconsin and Unemployment Insurance" (Wilbur J. Cohen); "Outstanding Ideas Form UI's Foundation" (Richard Wagner); "One State's Experience: 1939" (Joseph Bildy); "Technology and the UI System" (Charlie Ballard); and "Unemployment Insurance: The System" (William U. Norwood, Jr.). In part 2, "Financing the System--Benefits and Administration," the following papers are found: "Fifty Years of State Financial Responsibility" (Joseph M. Becker); "Monetary, Nonmonetary and Benefit Formulae" (Gerry Gilmore); "The Financing Foundation of UI" (James W. Jackson); and "Financing the Administration of the UI Program" (Gerald E. Dunn, Kathleen Griffin). Part 3 "Operating the System and Economic Impact," contains the following papers: "Interstate UI through Internet" (Jane Lowry Waid); "Computerization" (Jim Coate); "Labor Market Information and UI Operations" (Steve Goodman); "The Employment Service-Unemployment Insurance Relationship" (Charles H. Davis); "UI's Effect on the Local Economy" (W. E. Parsons); and "A Divergent Paradox" (John Stine). The final part, "The Future," contains three papers: "Alternative Uses of UI Benefits" (Garth L. Mangum, Stephen L. Mangum); "Incentives, Productivity Keys to Future" (Clinton E. Petty); and "Future Directions and Changes in the UI System" (James A. Ware). (KC)

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