Manpower programs have grown rapidly in the United States in recent years and show many signs of ungainly precocity. Like Shakespeare's schoolboy, manpower policies present a "shining morning face" filled more with innocence and expectation than with achievement. The first steps in the direction of modern manpower policies were taken as recently as 1961 with the passage of the Area Redevelopment Act. Through that legislation, public resources were earmarked for training unemployed workers in support of programs for the economic development of depressed areas. Initially, this program involved a federal commitment of $10 million to train 20,000 unemployed workers.
