Abstract

The cost of a workforce which revolves from one employer to another is more than the cost of continuous education and retraining. Careful placement and supervision of the disadvantaged cart also serve to reduce cost. At the outset, rehabilitation and training of the hard-core unemployed is a costly undertaking. Yet a nine-month training program and a job will repay the cost twice over in taxes alone in less than two years. The ultimate cost is the one arising out of human despair at not finding job opportunity. No nation can afford this. Poverty and affluence cannot for- ever exist side by side, equal opportunity cannot too long be withheld from some Americans. Neither business nor government can ignore these problems. It takes talent, commitment and hard work to help people to become employable, independent of the unemployment and relief rolls and productive members of society. Government and private enterprise cooperation in the successful employment of the part of workforce of the U.S. which needs special help is being demonstrated in Los Angeles, Houston, Chicago, Newark and Rochester.