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Explores attitudes of various levels of employees of Detroit Edison towards a program for employing some two hundred "hard-core" unemployed with goal of improving chances for success of future programs.

Speeches and papers by John Dancy, Don Marshall, Mrs. Geraldine Bledsoe, L.C. Blount, Ed Swan, and others emphasize the bleak employment history of the depression and gloomy immediate prospects.

Describes activities of two centers at Mt. Pleasant and Lansing in training "hard core unemployed."

A Report of Nationwide Surveys of Unemployment, Unemployment Insurance, and Attitudes of the Unemployed.

Special survey of Greater Detroit, February, 1958, finds much higher proportion of Negroes than whites unemployed.

Special Report on Negroes in Detroit's Labor Market

Doubled Negro population of last decade is still handicapped by limits, both business and union imposed, on Negro upward mobility. Recommends employer, community and minority group practices to overcome inequity.

Describes Lansing's economy, minorities and their participation in the training process, and their employment treatment.

Summarizes meeting of craft and industrial unions in Kalamazoo on March 8, 1958, on topic "Role of Trade Unions in Equal Employment Opportunity."

Pictures show range of jobs filled by blacks.

Reviews regulatory, education and community services, research activities.