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-1- <br />The need exists in a rapidly changing society to provide opportunities <br />for those working who are "disadvantaged", and those who have been <br />"dislocated" by these ,:hanger. <br />People within these two groups can be defined quite specifically. <br />"The disadvantaged individual' is a person throe 'r a combination of <br />factors such as: low educational attainment, lack wf orientation to the <br />work environment, insufficient vocational skills, and physical, mental or <br />emotional disabilities, has difficulty in finding and keeping a job. <br />"The dislocated worker' is an individual who after a period of productive <br />service loses his/her job due to lay-off. This dislocated worker <br />experiences difficulty in finding new employment because of lack of <br />suitable job opportunities, obsolete skills, age and lack Of familiarity <br />with job seeking techniques. <br />Because the manufacturing section has been massively impacted by both <br />off -shore resources as well as robotics, the extent of this economic and <br />industrial transformation has produced the term "rust bucket state.' <br />While this tens has not been applied to Minnesota, the impact is present <br />and vividly proven in the situation of the taconite industry in northern <br />Minnesota. <br />The restructuring process is also represented in more recent industrial <br />developments, such as computers and telecommunications. This industrial <br />group has a significant role in the state of Minnesota, since the state <br />ranks number six in nunber of electronics employees among the states. In <br />the last year, the employee roster in electronics in the United States <br />dropped by two rercent or fifty thousand jobs. This has been represented <br />in the Twin Cities, and in Hennepin County, by significant layoffs and <br />rev�ructuring on the part of Control Data Corporation, Honeywell and <br />Unisys, as weal as :,in, :mall electronics crmporarions. <br />There is now a sizable body of dislocated workers placed along side those <br />who are "disadvantaged" and who have been struggling to qualify for an <br />opportunity in the market place represented by Hennepin County. The <br />constituency of the disadvantaged is calculated to be about twenty-five <br />thousand persons in 1986; "the dislocated workers" being about five <br />thousand in 1986. <br />6usin.cs Plan: 14!ro 1/15;'87:PSA:C5 <br />