American Worker Project: Innovative Workplaces for the Future : Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations of the Committee on Education and the Workforce, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fifth Congress, Second Session, Hearing Held in Washington, DC, May 20, 1998, Volume 4 |
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Page 1 - Washington, DC The subcommittee met, pursuant to call, at 10 am, in Room 2175, Raybum House Office Building, Hon.
Page 40 - ... one reason that I am so interested in vocational training, and I know Iowa has done a great deal in that line. I have looked at the figures that Iowa has come up with and what you have done there. I think this is really the key to a lot of it. But you have to take and involve the private sector, and one of the things that we are trying to do through this commission is to involve the private sector through advisory committees and we have a long list of advisory committees and how we have involved...
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Page 45 - Thank you very much. [Whereupon, at 12:45 pm, the subcommittee was adjourned...
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