First. it combines essentially three separate pieces of legislationMDTA. title I of the Economic Opportunity Act. and the expired Emergency Employment Actinto a single piece of legislation. Second. it provides a broad and flexible job training and employment opportunity authority designed to meet varied and changing needs. Finally. it decentralizes the responsibility for planning and carrying out these programs to the State and local level. while providing sufficient authority and funds for the Secretary of Labor to run national programssuch as the Job Corpsand to focus attention on problems of national importancesuch as programs for Indians migrants. youth. and persons of limited Englishspeaking ability. I think it is essential to recognize that these three effects of this bill reflect not only administration recommendations and those of witnesses before our committee representing Governors. mayors. and county executivesbut virtually the unanimous recommendations of those in the academic community and elsewhere who have made a close study of manpower programs over the past several years. As the committee report on H.R. 11010 begins: There has been a general consensus for over four years that the national manpower legislation needs comprehensive reform. but it has also taken that long to develop a consensus on the substance of the legislation to establish that reform.
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