Bill Clinton: “Reemployment March 15, 1994 To the Congress of the United States: I am pleased to transmit today for your immediate…”

“Reemployment March 15, 1994 To the Congress of the United States: I am pleased to transmit today for your immediate consideration and prompt enactment the ``Reemployment Act of 1994''. Also transmitted is a section-by-section analysis. This legislation is vital to help Americans find new jobs and build sustainable careers. Our current set of programs was designed to meet the different needs of an earlier economy. People looking for help today confront a confusing, overlapping, and duplicative tangle of programs, services, and rules. Job seekers--whether unemployed or looking for better jobs-- have a difficult time getting the information they need: What benefits and services are available to them? Where can they get good quality training? What do they need to know to find and hold good jobs and to build sustainable careers? The underlying problem is the lack of a coherent employment and training system. Instead, we have many disconnected, category-based programs--each with distinct eligibility requirements, operating cycles, and program standards. We need a true system of lifelong learning--not the current hodgepodge of programs, some of which work, and some of which don't. The legislation I am transmitting today is an important first step in building this system. We need to build a reemployment system because our current unemployment system no longer delivers what many American workers need.…”