City Agencies' Operations Powerless Against Joblessness: Second of...
ll is midday, and llio inside of the building at 500 C St. N\Y looks like n hank on payday; people shuffling forward slowly in long, wobbly lines. This is the I). C. unemployment, office, and what these people are submitting are their names. The person behind the window at the front of the line casually inserts their cards into a "job bank" file. Yet, for many a withdrawal will never he made.</br></br>of being out of work. Registering for jobs with the DistrictÛªs manpower employment service is a lengthy, tortuous ordeal that turns many away in frustration.</br></br>Geraldine Green, an Anacostin adviser to the city's program, calls manpower's system "tedious, confusing, inefficient and dehumanizing," "I have personally seen (employment service) workers reading newspapers, cleaning fingernails or carrying on personal conversations between themselves" while job-scekors wait idly, she has said.</br></br>meaningful information on the cost and efficacy of training programs where job-scekors are sent by the employment service.</br></br>' Much of the problem here appears to be the result of bureaucratic snarls and infighting that often leaves a person seeking work trapped in a maze, Hostility, strong personality conflicts and differences in opinion among officials who run the programs often interfere with training,