This hearing focuses on the implementation of the Dislocated Worker Program as well as the concerns of those responsible for the program's administration. Representative Augustus Hawkins, chairman of the Subcommittee on Employment Opportunities, opened the hearing by urging that more funds (rather than the proposed 55 percent reduction) are necessary to help prepare the nation's workforce to meet the needs of a vastly changing technological economy. A witness from California discussed the lack of Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) funds and the inequitable disbursement of JTPA money in the 30th Congressional District, an area heavily impacted by steel, auto, and rubber plant closures. Other witnesses offered: (1) national data on JTPA projects including enrolling characteristics, the services received, and program outcomes; (2) a description of the United Auto Workers' training programs sponsored under Title III; (3) an overview of Title III from the perspective of Region 9 of the Employment and Training Administration (Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada) covering resources received and major findings of the regional program compliance review; and (4) a State (California) evaluation of the status of its Title III program covering program accomplishments and the funding mechanism by which service delivery areas and others access the Title III funds they need, and offering general observations concerning predicted trends and changes in the areas of long term unemployment and dislocated workers. (ETS)