These are vital needsand there is an equally important need for finding unique training methods that benefit all types of individuals. with diverse backgrounds. in a multitude of occupational areas. There are groups of individuals who continue to have especially serious employment problems and for whom provisions of the Manpower Development and Training Act and H.R. 4257 are uniquely designed. Manpower Development and Training Act experience has shown that new approaches and methods are required to meet the needs of disadvantaged worker groups. such as the undereducated. the nonEnglish speaking. the migrant workers. outofschool and outofwork youths. older workers. minority groups. the physically and mentally handicapped. and others. New approaches are needed to provide jobs and occupational training for the more than a million unemployed workers with less than 8 years of schooling. for older workers who comprise about 40 percent of the longterm unemployed. for the nonwhite workers who have double their proportionate burden of unemployment. for the unskilled and semiskilled workers who account for onethird of the unemployed. and other similarly disadvantaged worker groups. Progress has been made in alleviating the burdens of unemployment among these severely disadvantaged workers.