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An Evaluation of the Targeted Jobs Demonstration Program

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Authors: Horn, Carl Van     Ford, David     Beauregard, Robert    

Report Acceptance Date: 1983 (216 pages)

Posted Date: January 05, 2011



This report is the final one in a series of documents that have examined the evolution of the Targeted Jobs Demonstration Program in fourteen sites nationwide. Part I: A Comparative Analysis of TJDP Sites offers summary assessments of the efforts undertaken, accomplishments achieved, and obstacles encountered by the TJDP sites in implementing the demonstration's principal objectives: obtaining jobs for economically disadvantaged people from economic development projects1 obtaining business opportunities for small and minority businesses from economic development projects; and, improving coordination between local agencies concerned with employment and training, economic development, and business assistance. Part II: Summaries of the Fourteen TJDP Sites presents a brief description Of each site's efforts including an overview and explanation of the origins of the demonstration, a detailing of major accomplishments and a discussion of each project's progress and problems. Individual case studies, which were prepared for each of the fourteen sites, provided the background information for these summaries. For a more detailed reading, copies of these Case Studies may be obtained either from Eagleton Institute or the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the lead sponsor of the evaluation.


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