§3416 Labor Market Information on Indian Work Force

Summary

The Secretary of Labor must create, keep up-to-date, and publish a report at least every two years about the people who can get the Department’s services for Indian people. The report must give national, State, Bureau of Indian Affairs service-area, and tribal numbers for the total service population; those under age 16 and over 64; people available for work (even if not actively looking); the employed (including those earning below the poverty line); and how many work in private versus public jobs. The Secretary must also work with the Census Bureau and the National Center for Native American Studies and Policy Development (created by Public Law 101–301) to write a report on the need for accurate, regularly updated information about the size and characteristics of the Indian and Alaska Native population across the United States. That report must describe the need and the cost to get data on education, health, housing, job training, and other basic needs, consider tribes and groups serving Indians in nonreservation areas, and be sent to the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs and the House Committees on Natural Resources and on Education and Labor no later than 12 months after October 23, 1992.