<P> The Manpower Development Training Act of 1962 originated when President John F. Kennedy told legislators that "Large scale unemployment during a recession is bad enough, but large scale unemployment during a period of prosperity would be intolerable ." This act dealt with this situation by promoting a professional training plan and providing major Federal Funding to the Department of Health, Education and Welfare in order to improve the technical training of the unemployed and underemployed labor in the postwar period . The professional training plan provided federal funding to retain workers displaced because of technological change and for classroom and on - the - job - training targeted to low - income individuals and welfare recipients . </P> <P> The Wagner Peyser Act of 1933 established a nationwide employment system of public employment offices . These offices were known as the employment service and were created for cooperation of the States in the promotion of system to aid employment . </P> <P> The main goal of the WIA is to create a system that provides a means to increase employment, retention, and earnings of individuals . Accomplishing this goal is dependent on the services the WIA provides to increase occupational skill attainment by participants . The WIA is split into five titles that outline how the WIA accomplishes this goal . </P> <P> Title one of the Act authorizes state workforce investment boards, as well as local workforce investment boards . In order to measure how well people are doing in the program, title one requires the use of certain standards for success . Title one also authorizes a one - stop delivery system to be used in the program . This system sets up one place participants can go in their local area to get both job training and referrals . National programs such as jobs corps, Native American, migrant, and veterans programs are also authorized in title one . </P>

The three major funding streams for the wia (workforce investment act) are