Race, Job Training, and Economic Development: Barriers to Racial Equity in Program Planning
- 1 December 1994
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in The Review of Black Political Economy
- Vol. 23 (2) , 93-112
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02692737
Abstract
This article examines barriers to implementing government programs designed to redress racial economic exclusion. The authors review the current urban employment environment, and the need for more extensive job training and education programs targeting young African Americans. A case study is presented of the implementation of one such program in Ohio, the High Unemployment Population Program. It demonstrates that the most well designed program can fail if staff charged with implementation are not committed to its goals. In the current racially charged environment of the country, this barrier to implementation is likely to affect many new government programs throughout the 1990s. The article concludes with several recommendations for successful program implementation.Keywords
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