Job Training: Effect of Under-Reported Unemployment Data on Grant Funding to Rural Areas
HRD-86-35BR
Published: Nov 26, 1985. Publicly Released: Nov 26, 1985.
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In response to a congressional request, GAO: (1) estimated the degree of underfunding to rural areas by federal grant programs which use unemployment data to distribute funds to localities; and (2) calculated how much additional federal funding rural counties would receive if their actual unemployment rates were 1 and 3 percent higher than the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported.
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Economically depressed areasEmployment assistance programsFederal grantsFunds managementLabor statisticsLabor surplus areasRural economic developmentUnemployment ratesUnemploymentGrant programs