Another would expand authority to assign VISTA volunteers so that these unusually dedicated Americans could be employed and their talents used in support of any activity eligible for assistance under the Economic Opportunity Act. Another amendment would provide Job Corps enrollees with Federal Employees Compensation Act protection while they are on authorized pass or traveling to or from a Job Corps site. and provide more adequate benefits under that same act to VISTA volunteers as well. An amendment would clarify the Directors authority to carry out effective programs to aid migrants and seasonally employed agricultural employees. and permit limited use of funds for the training of teachers or instructors in techniques of working with adults under the adult basic education program. The bill also generally includes the several program amendments adopted by the House. These would. for example. enable Cuban refugees to enroll in the Job Corps and Neighborhood Youth Corps and assure that workers in very lowincome farm families will not be excluded from workexperience projects under title V of the act. In addition. the bill includes several amendments adopted by the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare which merit special comment. One of these authorizes special projects directed to the needs of chronically unemployed persons who have poor employment prospects.
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